Re: IE 7.0 on horizon

"lamchopz" <lamchopz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm excited about the upcoming version of Internet Explorer.
>
> Other rival browsers might have many appealing features such as tabbed
> browsing, a download manager, etc. but I just can't quit MS IE.
>
> I have tried Firefox (1.0.3), Netscape (7.2), the two main competitors
> against IE. Result(?): Removing both of them.
>
> I enjoyed Firefox for 30 minutes and 10 minutes for Netscape. Those
> open-source browsers are just not my type.
>
> One particular reason is Google Toolbar, which is only available for IE.
>
> The new version of IE should include more startling features than its
> predecessors had. One is a download manager that would help resume broken
> downloads and integrate all the downloads in one single window, probably
> also
> the capability to split the file into many parts to accelerate the speed.
>
> Tabbed browsing is not among expectation, since Windows XP allows multiple
> IE windows to be grouped together. It's similar to tabbed browsing anyway.
> However, if Microsoft can add that feature in IE, version 7.0 will
> definitely
> be the winner.

I used to be a heavy Mozilla user, then I moved to Firefox (when it was
called Firebird) but since SP2 I moved back to Internet Explorer. But for
the last couple of months I've been using Maxthon (which is based upon the
IE engine www.maxthon.com) I quite like it. Tabbed browsing, mouse gestures
so you can back forward switch pages like that (it's a lot quicker then
finding a button). The main important thing for me was the RSS support.

The main argument against IE, is always poor standards support. So I'd like
to see CSS2.1 being as well implemented as possible. Tabs.... Yeah like
you said, Windows supports many open windows, it's nice to have that option
to just fire off 30 tabs all inside one window but not a killer feature.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/
http://windows.dasmirnov.net/ Windows XP Resource Site.

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