IE7

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Maybe not the thread, just the link if it's dodgy.

I'm actually quite interested in how MS has improved the whole browser.  Let's face it, it couldn't really be worse! :-D

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@koaftder

I don't think you realise who you are talking to here ;-)

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@Piru

I'm not saying he's wrong.

I'm suspicious of beta stuff myself, especially if it comes from a dubious source.  I just think the way koaftder was speaking was a bit off, but seeing his answer to my last post, I can see why he made it :-)

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After reading that I'm glad I switched to Opera before Firefox took off.  Although that was one of the browsers I tried along with Netscape, K-Meleon and a few others.

I've never had a problem with Opera.  The only bad thing about it is that some pop-ups do get past the blocker, but not many.  Maybe only 2 a week.

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uncharted wrote:
The other thing that caught my attention was that that phishing feature, I wonder how it works (could there be privacy issues there) and I wonder if it can be abused.  I'm always wary about software making judgements on content I access.

The anti-phishing feature is also a plugin for the MSN toolbar at the moment.

There are docs on the m$ website about it, but I can't find them just now, and they'd probably not tell you what you want to know anyway.

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So... after a couple of weeks, how is IE7?

Any more problems or possible bugs?

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Looks good, but I'm not going to bother trying it until it's an official update.  I don't have an offline dedicated beta machine (I've tried making one from spare parts but never got very far).

I like the Anti phishing filter (that made it's debut as a plugin for MSN's Search Toolbar along with the tabbed browsing).  Everything else is something that should've been implemented a long long time ago.
The overall look is better, but it still seems a bit disorganized to me.


Still sticking with Opera 9.0 here (a beta, but it's yet to cause any kind of problem here).

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Dunno about comparing Opera to Firefox, but Opera 9 is a bit faster and lighter on the memory compared to 8.5x on my system.  Even though it is still in beta.

Although that probably doesn't help you in the slightest ;-)

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Any ideas about the Vista build being updated?

I haven't had the chance to get back to Vista this past fortnight so I don't even know if there's been updates in that time.