New Internet Explorer Beta

[Bimmerbill]

Anyone else trying it out?
I like it so far.
The multiple home pages is pretty slick.

 

[thefed]

whaddaya mean multiple hoem pages?

 

[Coach]

I'm guessing he means tabs -- like firefox.

I'll stick with firefox.

Coach

 

[Livefree]

Stay with Firefox..IE is not a secure browser!

 

[justin]

last time I installed a "beta" version of something from Microsoft, I had to reinstall my operating system to fix the problems it created. Other than that, sure, I'd love to try IE beta. :

 

[Leonidas]

Bobby Bouchet's momma said it best: "Bill Gates is the Devil!"

Seriously, use Firefox and you'll be safer. IE is too big of a target and MS has a long history of reacting too slowly to threats to make it a trustworthy platform.

 

[Bimmerbill]

Naw, I'm a slave to Microsoft. I figured the tab thing was a rip off from Firefox, but never used firefox.

I enjoy reinstalling my OS every few months. I guess thats why I work in IT hehe.

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

If I still had a 'banger machine' running, i'd try it, but I didnt see anything in the feature list that i'm not getting right now with firefox, so i'll let someone else be the guys with the arrows in their backs pioneers...

 

[Nords]

Darn, I thought this meant that IE6 was finally out of beta...

 

[BigMoneyJim]

Heh, tough crowd. (Posted using FireFox.)

When I get some time I'll use the free version of VMWare Server to install a WinXP image and try out IE7 beta, but I'm busy packing and burying bodiestying up loose ends at work.

Bimmerbill, have you used the RSS feature yet? I think it's called "My Feeds" in IE7. This site should lite up your icon.

 

[Bimmerbill]

Yeah, it does light up the icon, but doesnt work:

I get the following error:

valign="top"> More information

Supported feed formats

ATOM 0.3, 1.0
RSS 0.91, 0.92
RSS 1.0

 

[thefed]

rss feeds huh? i jeard somethign about that a while back and have been waiting for it to be implemented....im gonna go do some research (while at work, using firefox : )

 

[BigMoneyJim]

That's odd...valign="top" shouldn't have anything to do with RSS. Wonder what IE7 is up to? I'll have to check it out...maybe this weekend.

rss feeds huh? i jeard somethign about that a while back and have been waiting for it to be implemented....im gonna go do some research (while at work, using firefox : )

I've tested it in FireFox...the RSS bookmark thingy works.

 

[JB]

Lately I've been using Opera . It has most of the firefox featues (like security and tabbed browsing) and it's a lot faster and leaner.

I like Firefox's features, and that it's open, but there are a few things that really bug me. Like the memory usage, crashes, and pdf plugin sluggishness.

For example, I just ran a quick test on the two browsers, both with 6 tabs open to the same pages. Firefox is using 2x the memory. Opera feels snappier too. So, if you're on an older machine you might want to give it a try.

 

[donheff]

rss feeds huh?

www.bloglines.com is a good way to follow RSS feeds like this board. Since your status is maintained on the bloglines server you can catch up from any computer. I follow a fair number of blogs -- this one is very high on the daily post count.