The Euphoria Syndrome

Friday, October 20, 2006

IE7: Nothing new here.

Internet Explorer 7 came out yesterday. Well, day before, if you consider Yahoo! jumping the gun with their branded version. Conclusion: Nothing you haven't seen in alternative browsers, but hell, at least it works.

All Microsoft adversity aside, the browser works pretty well. Here's a look:




It has tabbed windows now, a new view choice box in the bottom right corner, an integrated search box, and new "Vista-ish" buttons.  Other browsers have had this same features for ages now. Here's the one thing I do like about IE7. It comes with a feature called "Quicktabs" right out of the box, which is just what the foXpose Firefox extension does. It takes thumbnails of each of the tab and places them on a single page for you to choose from. Here's a look at the feature:




All in all, I'll have to admit that, if Firefox and Opera weren't around, I probably would have stuck to Microsoft's proprietary browser.

Update: Yup, I spoke too soon. It's Microsoft. There has to be something wrong. So yeah, turns out, IE7 doesn't play awfully nice with Blogger. Oh well.

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