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

victim of non-standard websites...

Pros: Opera is speedy, and one of the few that actually adheres to W3C standards. Installation is fast and simple. People thought Firefox was so innovative, but Opera was offering tabbed browsing and extensions over a decade ago.

Cons: It's not really Opera's fault, but there are a lot of web sites that won't display properly in Opera, because they were designed specifically for IE or Opera. This includes a lot of Ajax-enabled sites, so things like Google Docs, ThinkFree, and a number of online banking sites don't work with it.

That's a real shame, because Opera has a lot going for it.

Posted: 17-Jun-2007 06:51:51 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