Poll: Have you downloaded IE 7?
Tuesday October 24, 2006
IE 7 was released last Wednesday and according to the IE Blog over 3 million people have downloaded it already. Have you?
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yes, I downloaded it and the next day i got a virus. Boo.
Only for 1 day, then I uninstalled it and grabbed the new Firefox.
I like the new look and feel to surfing. I like the QuickTabs; although I rarely use it. Unfortunately, I’ve had a few pages load errors with the response I am using ie7 and it is causing problems. My question is, if a person knows ie7 is causing an issue and a person takes the time to let me know… why didn’t that person just adjust whatever issue is going on? I don’t know, it is just funny to get a message regarding the “newest” browser. Kinda like running across all those “get firefox get a life” buttons. Why insult my intelligence; I am choosing to use ie when I could just as easily choose firefox. Habits die hard.
I got it, and tested some pages with it, and found a problem. For some reason it was ignoring a right margin. After many attempts to correct the problem, I am still clueless. It seems to go that way, right after everyone figures out how to “fix” IE CSS display problems, IE7 corrects those and comes up with new ones. Now to figure out the workarounds…
I downloaded it, uninstalled it, and tried to install a parallel of IE6 and IE7 for testing (which was unsuccessful for the record.)
I’ll just continue to develop for IE6 and FF1.5 for another month, then take a look into running parallels again.
I downloaded it only to discover Microsoft doesn’t support running IE 6 and IE 7 concurrently, which makes it tough for web designers to test sites. Frustrating!
I haven’t downloaded it yet and, reading the other comments, I don’t think I will for a while! But am I right in thinking that I read somewhere that this will get foisted on us anyway with MS updates?
Virginia is absolutely right - how are designers supposed to check for compatibility if both versions won’t run concurrently?
Yes, IE 7 will eventually be added to the automatic updates for Windows. I think that’s supposed to happen in the next couple of weeks.
As for running IE 6 and 7 at the same time: you haven’t been able to do that with multiple versions of IE for years now. This is not a change in their strategy. Eventually people will come up with a way to hack it, but since the browser is merged with the OS that still won’t be completely viable testing for Web designers. To get real testing that shows you exactly what your customers will see, you have to have either mulitple machines with different versions on them or use a tool like BrowserCam.
Downloaded it and had a lot of problems with it. Couldn’t get tabbed browsing to work. Some of my toolbars refused to work with it. Found it hard to find settings.
I have downloaded, uninstalled downloaded again, and uninstalled. I keep getting errors with it. I lose my page and have to go back and start again. I’m not sure it’s compatible with my system, however I use xp.
Apart from not being able to run IE 6 alongside IE 7(there was a difficult registry hack using a virtual install -that I didn’t bother with when I tried the initial beta) there’s no downside.
Getting used to the new layout is far less annoying than tweaking around with Firefox and a gazillion extensions. (Did you see the Developer Toolbar, it is much better than the Firefox, one with a built in ruler to boot! The Validator’s open in a separate tab by default.)
Love seeing the Firefox fanatics sputter and choke.
I installed it from yahoo site and after a few minutes, it crashed. I uninstall and reinstall and it keep on crashing. I tried the other download sites but same thing… it crashes every time I open a new tab. The beta was better.
Downloading is NOT the problem. It’s the required XLMLite that breaks things, like Yahoo! Widgets. I found that IE7 wouldn’t function with CookieCop 3, wich is a proxy filter. Also, when I could actually get it running, I discovered a whole new orientation to placement of the tradtional IE controls. All in all, an unwelcome experience. Score: 2 out of 10.
Downloaded IE7 early this week, and am really not loving it. The look is clean, tabs are a big improvement over IE6, but CSS is a big problem. Doesn’t seem we’re any better off than with IE6, but at least we knew the work-arounds for that.
I only have ie7 on the computer I use (ie7 updated over it); but on our laptop it has ie7 and ie6 both loaded and functional. I don’t think we’ve had them both open but both are functional.
Well, nix the functional thing. IE is okay but the OS windows xp on my laptop is crashed so technically I’ve been running firefox this past week from a Knoppix CD. Other than that, 2 weeks ago they were running fine. (ouch).
I am not sure but I think if you “save” instead of “run” it you can put it somewhere else to install. I really don’t remember. But they were both functional before my crash. (virus related: kids using it and too lazy to “not” use the easy Knoppix).
Roni: I’m curious - on the machine that has both IE 6 and 7 running on it, does it have IE 7 beta? IE 7 only released like a week and a half ago, so if you had it 2 weeks ago, you probably installed the beta which I believe was possible to run alongside IE 6.
I decided to do some research before I let my computer’s IE change to version 7.
Most of the comparisons I’ve found between Firefox and IE7 have said that IE7 is a copy of Firefox, but a bad copy at that.
I’m glad I did the research, because I adore Firefox’s customizability and while IE7 sounds like an improvement… it has hassles I don’t need.
Maybe when they fix a whole bunch of security holes (after about a year) I might consider it again.
I’ve used ie7 for a couple of weeks now. I like the new fresh look. However, it crashes on me very often. I ‘ve even re-formated my computer before i installed it. I have a co-worker that is having problems creating images with yahoo messenger. It’s very disapoiting that this is what mircorsoft has come up with to be the next most common browser.