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A Week With IE7

The first browserden review “A Week With IE7” is now online. Last week I decided to use IE7 rather than Firefox for a whole week to see how it compared. Although it’s a big improvement on IE6 I’m happy to be returning to Firefox as my regular browser.

This entry was posted on Monday, October 23rd, 2006 at 4:03 pm and is filed under IE, Reviews. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “A Week With IE7”

  1. Tarwin Says:
    October 25th, 2006 at 3:03 am

    The damn thing crashes all the time on my machine :( And as a web designer I need the peice of crap!

  2. browserden Says:
    October 25th, 2006 at 11:55 am

    I never had that problem but I was running it on a fairly recent install of XP. Does it crash just the browser or does it require a whole reboot?

  3. Bjorn Says:
    October 25th, 2006 at 1:52 pm

    The #1 cool feature of IE7 and why I’m using it more than firefox right now (which I thought would never happen) is Cleartype. The text looks so much better with Cleartype.

  4. Bob Says:
    October 25th, 2006 at 4:28 pm

    Cleartype is available to all applications that use Windows XP or Vista as a system wide setting. IE does not respect the systemwide setting but Firefox does.

    So to get cleartype in Firefox under XP see here:
    http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

    This enables cleartype to be controlled from the control panel

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