Comments on: 4 Smart Features in IE7

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By: Yahia

Yahia — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:02:10 +0000

Hi people. I’m here to tell you that all of this is quite little for what another good old browser has to say.

Its name is Opera. A glimpse at http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/ will leave you speachless!

Go get Opera, and cut the crap about IE (the Web polluter) and Firefox (the son of the Web). O had tabbed browsing 10 years ago, while “smart” browsers just made it.

Opera is the best browser in the world, available for Windows, Solaris, QNX, OS/2, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, BeOS haha.

See you.

By: gaspard leon

gaspard leon — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:55:24 +0000

Yes, I like IE7 for the features you’ve pointed out (QuickTabs etc) and like the integrated pre-caching with Windows XP (read: fast loading)

But I use FF more because I have greasemonkey scripts.
And, I like that it’s the same on my Ubuntu install as well… yes overall it’s a case of follow the innovator, I’m guessing the better bits of IE7 will be in FF2.x or 3 and the better bits of FF2.x or 3 will be in IE7.x or 8 but you have to admit that FF is better all around as it’s free. (remember IE7 is only a “supplement” to Windows XP/2003) and has windows/mac/unix ports…

By: JethroSquid

JethroSquid — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:22:38 +0000

For me, the single biggest thing I don’t like about IE7 is…

It ONLY works on Windows XP and newer.

Whereas Firefox 2.0 works on my home Win XP and Mac OS/X and also Win 2000 at the office. All setup the same and running the same extensions.

By: labrat

labrat — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:59:56 +0000

Hi again rowan!

Yes I agree with you, but the main concern of this article was not to say that Firefox is bad or IE7 is bad, its just to show that IE7 is working its way into good useful features.

Believe me I have nothing against Firefox, in fact I use firefox more than IE anyways

The reason I mentioned Firefox 1.5 in some odd places was just for an odd comparison and to bring out the point that Firefox will make our life much better if those features were to come built in the future versions.

By: Rowan Lewis

Rowan Lewis — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:05:12 +0000

Comparing IE7 to FF1.5 doesn’t make much sense, as a lot of ideas have been chucked around from all of the major browsers, and its the next batch of releases in which these features are expected.

You need to compare like with likeness.

2. Yeah, the Firefox betas have a button like that, but it doesn’t include the context menu items, only the list of tabs open. It should have both…

3. Yeah, the best placement, I’d leave that as an extension however.

By: labrat

labrat — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:21:20 +0000

Hi rob,

Yes the point I am trying to bring across via this article is the fact that these should be standard implementations in all browsers.

By: Labrat

Labrat — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:18:10 +0000

I appreciate your views rowan and thanks for commenting

The reason I used firefox 1.5 was because it is what is out at the moment.

As for #2 my intentions were to show you guys the simplicity of doing that in IE due to good navigation button placement, not really the fact that it could be done.

The #3 image is in the bottom right corner of the IE7 window.

Again yes I do agree with you on some of those points, both browsers have their own goods and bads, the point of this is just to highlight the ease of use rather than the feature itself.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:13:31 +0000

No offense, but this article isnt very useful. All of the features you describe are available in firefox via extensions. And although you think some of these features should be built into the browser itself, others dont. Firefox is already seen as a memory hog to most users, probably because of all the extra helpful features that mozilla decides to bundle into the browser, like going backwards and forwards extremely quickly by caching web pages. Features like anti-phishing, which are completely useless to anyone with a brain, should be extensions that can be added on if necessary. That way firefox can start out as an extremely light resource browser, and gain functionality through the add-ons implemented by users. So your complaint about bundling features and your implied one about memory usage is a little hypocritical. You cant have your cake and eat it too. Also TBH memory footprint these days is pretty moot, when pretty much all users have at least 512MB of memory. If you don’t, you wouldn’t be using such an advanced browser :\