[Thinkpad] IE 7 RC1

[Tim S.]

The thing that really bugs me about IE in general is that I can only have
one version of it installed.  I would love to take IE7 for a spin, but as I
have to ensure that the web sites I'm working on look right in IE6 (as 90%
of my population is on it) I can't load IE7 as IE6 would be gone.

I suppose I could load up VMWare, do a parallel installation of XP and load
IE7 on there, but that's a pretty major hoop to jump through.  Or buy myself
another machine, but that's not really an option at the moment.

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: thinkpad-bounces at stderr.org [mailto:thinkpad-bounces at stderr.org] On
Behalf Of Colgrove, George
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 12:36 PM
To: Allan Ballard; David Ross; thinkpad
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] IE 7 RC1

I've been using it on my laptop.  I haven't noticed and difference in speed.
I like the way they implemented tabs - I think it is a bit better than
Mozilla.  One thing that was interesting is sometimes when viewing a page
with shockwave or flash, it asks for me to download the application, even
though I have it installed!  And when I do go ahead and download it, Adobe
thinks I have Netscape, mozilla, opera (and one
other) - not IE!  Humph!  So with some web pages, I cannot see the flash
content (with dialup - no big loss!)

George

-----Original Message-----
From: Allan Ballard [mailto:aballard at ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 3:53 PM
To: Colgrove, George; David Ross; thinkpad
Cc: Aballard
Subject: IE 7 RC1

Has anyone tried the beta now RC1 Internet Explorer browser? IF so, what do
you think?

I find it to be pig slow. It is the slowest browser I've tried. Slow to
open, slow to operate, and slow to close.Opera and Mozilla run rings around
it.

Worse, version Beta 1 screwed up something to do with Norton Internet
Security's install routine. When I open IE, I have to fight off numerous
3 sequence Norton pop ups something about "This MSI must not run" or
somesuch.
Launching Word (Office 2003) gets the same treatment.

IE broke Norton! 

I guess I'll have to uninstall and reload but may wait to see if the IE
final release will fix what IE beta 1 broke.

Allan




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