Problems

Pros: Tabs, improved security, and printing options are long overdue, but welcome. Zoom feature is nice, loading and browsing are very quick.

Cons: Clumsy interface, with navigation buttons and menus on opposite sides.

Worse, however, is after I installed it, Flash content stopped working. I reinstalled Flash, still nothing. I removed IE7 and reverted back to version 6, still no good. Did a system restore, still no remedy.

Looks like the only way to get my PC back to its former healthy state is to reformat and reload... and I think I have IE7 to thank for that.

Posted: 18-Oct-2006 06:50:56 PM

Not bad.

Pros: - Better security than IE6, and the updated interface is more like Firefox and Opera now.

- Has a built-in RSS reader.

- Improved CSS compliance.

- Printing is much better than it was with IE6.

- On my PC, it's much, MUCH faster than Firefox (which has always seemed a bit slow to me).

Cons: - It's a memory hog. (As bads as, or worse than Firefox. And that's bad.)

- For WinXp SP2 or later only. Everybody else is out of luck.

- We waited five years for this? There's little or nothing about IE7 that is that new or innovative. If you're happy with your current web browser, this one won't likely change your mind.

Posted: 26-May-2006 01:41:26 PM

have to take some bad with the good

Pros: Firefox's menus and layout is about as good as it gets, and the browser is very easy to use. It's stable and integrates well with other programs and services. Not a huge download, and installs very quickly. Probably the best overall choice for Windows users (remembering, of course, that Windows can never be completely free of IE). Opera and Safari may be technically superior, but neither is as easy to set up and use.

Cons: Mozilla needs to focus on fixing some long-standing bugs instead of adding more bells and whistles. Firefox is a memory hog. CSS absolute positioning and unicode character support (as someone else here has already pointed out) are incomplete. There are even display glitches with nested tables that have been around unfixed since the Netscape days.

The good news is that it looks like some of these issues might finally get fixed for version 3.

Posted: 20-Jan-2008 06:19:28 AM