Microsoft now wants all of us to help iron any glitches out of it's new browser. Why not download it and let us know what you think? All the links you need are in the news story.
The one annoying thing I find with Firefox is that you have to download all of the plugins, whereas IE tends to have most of the main ones already installed. This might be seen as a good thing as you can select the plugins that you actually need and use.
I'm a professional web developer and Linux advocate/evangelist so am normally firmly fixed in the Anti-Microsoft camp as they tend to produce insecure and non-compliant crap.
However, IE7 looks like it could be brilliant! They've fixed (most of) the compliance issues, implemented tabs and will have it installed by default on lots of PCs.
It finally will make my job easier in that we won't have to do lots of hacks to try and get sites to work cross browser.
All this said, I haven't tried it yet (as it won't run under WINE/Linux) - but I'm looking forward to dual booting Vista and Gentoo Linux when Vista's released.
The one annoying thing I find with Firefox is that you have to download all of the plugins, whereas IE tends to have most of the main ones already installed. This might be seen as a good thing as you can select the plugins that you actually need and use.
Absolutely, or choose to install an extension that blocks flash...
To be honest, with most people on broadband these days it doesn't make that much odds surely?
Its not the downloading, its the "having to download". People (not me) are getting lazier when it comes to their PCs. It the hassle of having to and plugins not being there in the first place.
