Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Further thoughts on ie7: it sucks

I posted my initial thoughts on ie7 a few weeks ago. I've been using it as my primary browser for the past week or so, so am now in a position to give a slightly more informed opinion.

Basically, I heavily over-rated it last time around due to my excitement at the (eventual) introduction of tabbed browsing. Having used it some more the main problems I see with ie7 are:
- it's slow
- tabbed browsing is not well-integrated into browser functionality (eg. right-clicking on a link does not give an option for the link to open in a new tab)
- the toolbar is awkward to use

Basically, it's just not as good as Firefox 1 and I couldn't wait to get back to Firefox.

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