Internet Explorer 7 RC1 Might Not Be Half Bad
I am not sure if you remember a few weeks ago when I posted that I removed the beta versions of Firefox as well as Internet Explorer 7 from my computer. Both were extremely buggy and would shut down on me at random times after producing various error messages that I don't remember nor cared to take the time to write down. I didn't care. It's an Internet browser… it should work… and without errors or shutting down, erasing a post that I was in the middle of creating. It was very frustrating.
Needless to say, I removed both beta versions from my computer and went back the the current stable versions, Firefox 1.5 and Internet Explorer 6.0.
However, a few minutes ago, I read a review on Internet Explorer 7 RC1 at InformationWeek.com and they claimed that there wasn't much different between Internet Explorer 7 Beta version compared to the RC1. However, then in their post, they illustrate many improved features. It actually seems that there are a TON of improvments… making it, in my eyes… worth another shot!
So, at this point… IE7 has its foot back in the door here… after publishing this post, I will head straight to microsoft.com and download IE7 again… Wish me luck! :)
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August 26th, 2006 at 7:15 am
Hope your computer does not get allergy again because of the buggy IE7.
August 26th, 2006 at 8:25 am
I haven’t downloaded it yet! Ahh!!! Why do you say that? Tell me more what makes you skeptical about the RC1 release… I might not download it, for real.. Browsing and using the computer is going great for me… so I might not mess around with it. What are your thoughts?
August 26th, 2006 at 9:42 pm
I belong to Anti IE community.
August 26th, 2006 at 9:57 pm
Hey that’s cool! Nothing wrong with that. I like Firefox! I do… I really do… please don’t hunt me down!
August 27th, 2006 at 12:51 am
Firefox sucks.
Like Mormonism, it is something that looks and sounds good on the surface, but upon further examination, intelligent folks know to run from it, leaving it for the gullible and the naive.
August 27th, 2006 at 12:52 am
Oh boy… this could get juicy!
August 27th, 2006 at 12:54 am
Orange or Apple?
Give me orange juice to drink, but the only way smart folks compute is on an Apple.
August 27th, 2006 at 12:58 am
Do you have an extra? Or… the OS! LOL!!! ->> I guess I could use the OS because I have half an apple.
August 27th, 2006 at 1:18 am
I have extras of everything - including three too many Windows machines.
What kills me are the dummies who run around pissed off at IE because it is faulty, yet they run with Windows. The adventurous try Linux or some other Unix variant, yet they are still running on an architecture optimized for Windows. We won’t even get into all of the Linux code that continues to be found to be ripped off of other’s work, including Microsoft’s.
I hate to tell you this, but even AMD’s offerings are optimized for Windows - with the exception of the new Apple/Intel machines, all other hardware is slanted toward Windows. Using another OS is starting with a handicap.
Anyone able to decompile Firefox is also able to open a direct path right into your system and you’re much more vulnerable if you’re running FF on top of Linux. In fact, with FF & Linux, it is much simpler to get into your entire network.
A cold, hard fact which many may not want to hear - A computer is vulnerable when connected to the Internet. Add a browser and you increase your vulnerability about 50-fold. Run FF and another browser and you’re asking for about 20 times more vulnerability than just running a single browser - why? Because the core of FF compromises Windows more than doe the core of IE - FF with IE6 makes your machine a sitting duck for infection, because FF damaged your IE and your Windows. Tracing software will then point to Windows and IE as your culprit, when it was really the fault of FF not playing well with others.
Take it from an old hacker and forget what the young techno-geek-morons continue to spout.
August 27th, 2006 at 1:25 am
So what do you suggest? With this new theme… I see (and hopefully you do too) little difference using FF and IE. So I honestly don’t care anymore. I really only want one browser… but it need to have tabs. IE6 doesn’t and that is why I have FF 1.5. FF beta as well as IE7 beta sucked bad… both crashes all the time.
So would you suggest that IE 7 RC1 is stable and I can download it and remove FF 1.5 and discountiue using IE6? I know that you like Opera too… so where does that factor in?
August 27th, 2006 at 5:07 am
I am having no problems at all with IE7 now. The initial renderings did cause me some slowdowns and a few crashes, but the latest runs faster than Opera does. Both IE7 and Opera use more system resources than did the older versions of either, but neither takes as big a chunk as does Firefox.
Last month I tried the latest version of FF, then tried the previous version again - I ran both for about a day each, wasn’t impressed and uninstalled both. Interestingly, I went through several days of increased activity (uninvited) on the ports FF used. My switch logs were full of all sorts of inbound muck and my connection monitor showed a tenfold increase in inbound attempts to access my network. I shut down that port and everything returned to normal within about 12 hours.
Like Mormonism, FF is nothing more than a deception made to look good. Open source sounds good, on paper, but when you realize that not everyone working on the code and extensions has good intentions, plus there is no penalty for messing up the works, it becomes clear that Open Source software should come with big red flags. FF needs a banner the size of a football field.