Hum,
well after a bit more testing i discovered that it isn't as memory intensive, and faster than the old ie6.
The stability issues i experience at the beginning have gone , though that may just be because of luck.
I've had to do a bit of hacking to get it to work as i want; such as i installed a google search option , and remove some `this is a beta` text.
[color=ff00ff]For example, on `certain` machines, to remove the text that has appeared at the bottom of your desktop after you installed IE7:
Delete these entries (regedit):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\CA\Certificates\FEE449EE0E3965A5246F000E87FDE2A065FD89D4
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\ROOT\Certificates\2BD63D28D7BCD0E251195AEB519243C13142EBC3
This will remove the root certificate, and stop the text from appearing.
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Overall i would say that the finished job with RSS, Tabs, search tool, anti phishing, will be just the same as Firefox.