Comments on: Will IE7 Kill Firefox?

By: Maciek

Maciek — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 08:25:00 +0000

Jesus god man. Just take this page down. Please.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:25:03 +0000

IE 7 is a joke.
Its basically a lite early Firefox. Everything is copied and nothing is improved.
And your statistics are a bit off. Firefox has over 28% of current browsing my friend. Thats over a quarter.
I predict IE 7 will drive more people to Firefox.
Once IE 6 people switch over to 7 and learn the new system many will try Firefox and find its system much more user-friendly and customizable. Microsoft is going to LOSE users in the switchover from 6 to 7. Mark my words.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 16:36:15 +0000

IE7 is good but so is Firefox 2.0. I'm using both. Firefox is built for some sites and so is IE. I use Firefox for doing my email and googling. I use IE 7 for browsing microsoft sites and at work. Firefox 2.0 is better though. Less memory use, and a lot faster page load times. Try both it. My friends like IE 7 more. I like Firefox more.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:40:30 +0000

For Firefox: I don't understand people's complaints about memory leaks. I've been using Fx 1.5 on a 233 MHz Pentium II computer with 128 MB RAM, and didn't see any serious problems.
But it is true (and you can certainly feel it on a slow computer) that IE6 was a lot faster then either Firefox or Opera.
Now I'm writing this on a more modern machine. I've just tried IE7 and as someone who got converted from IE mainly because it couldn't properly magnifiy text (you young people with big monitors don't really understand how important this may be), I am very disappointed. IE7's page zooming is almost completely useless. Even though this page resizes just fine with the browser window, when I zoom the page, a horizontal scrollbar appears. On magnified pages sometimes you have to hover near the links (and not above them) to highlight them. I am really surprised to see that such an essential feature has so serious bugs.

By: Jim Courtney

Jim Courtney — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Seems llike Alec Saunders (formerly Product Manager for the original IE in 1995) still finds the latest release candidate buggy.
But of course the MS people did not listen and apparenlty are unleashing it on us as we discuss it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:56:47 +0000

I think it was Andrew Marr who first expressed the rule about articles with headlines that end with a question mark. “The answer is no”.
Firefox are too far ahead on features already.

By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:53:36 +0000

I switched to IE7 from Firefox at about beta2. I just got sick and tired of the memory leaks. I've found that I do like IE7 and like like all the cool things I've been missing that integrate with IE (like MindManager).
But when IE7 is pushed out, I know I'm going to have to be doing tech support with friends and family because it's new.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:58:45 +0000

IE7 as uber-browser…not so much.
I downloaded it awhile ago as a beta. I use it solely to access Microsoft's TechNet forums, since they won't render quite right in Firefox. Mind you I had a heck of time getting IE 7's security permissions set right to access microsoft.com in the first place.
As a developer, I don't care for it. It still gives cryptic information for debugging ASP code - Firefox is much more explicit. Firefox is also better at helping debug JavaScript - which with the explosion in AJAX lately, is a very important feature for developers once again.
As an IT Professional, supporting corporate users, I don't care for IE7 either. My users are quite confused by the interface. They are much more comfortable with IE6. I could spend awhile tweaking IE7 to more closely resemble a UI that works - or I can just leave everyone on IE6. Hmmm.
So, IE7 is not for me. But then again, the first thing I did with XP was change the interface to classic windows. I like the functionality of the newer software, but does the UI have to change? Microsoft, take a hint from Ford and Mopar, go back to what works on the outside and just leave the updates to the engine.