IE 7, Firefox 2

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Leo,you realise that this may be the longest comment list in the history of "Ask Leo"
It may also be the most inflammatory,lol
Thanks for your site,it is appreciated,
Luke.

Hi Leo,
I have done what you recommend. I've been using FireFox for 2 years, and still prefer it to IE7. The free McAfee SiteAdvisor that is a FF add-on is very good also.

Hi Leo - I'm also running FF and IE side-by-side. IE is still my default browser, but some sites just work better with FF. I've turned the menu bar OFF in IE7. The access keys will still cause it to appear, when necessary. And I'm really glad that ALT-F, X, now does what every other Windows app does.

It should be noted that if you have I.E. 6x on your machine you NEED to upgrade to I.E 7. That various problems with I.E. 6 are not going to be repaired.

At various times I've used Opera, Firefox, etc in addition to IE6. At various times they've ALL exhibit quirks, problems, frustrations, and hair-pulling episodes. So to me, it's just a marketing ploy by Microsoft, Mozilla, etc. to try to gain new customers. (The old "look what we have to offer" sales pitch.) I think I'll stick with IE6 until such time Microsoft completely removes it from their inventory. Maybe by then, they'll have all the bugs worked out of IE7. I wish someone would clearly state why I NEED to upgrade from IE6 to IE7, and why I NEED to do it right now and not 6 months or a year from now.

My take is that you don't need to - at least not right now. The rumor is that you may get it anyway via Windows Automatic Updates, but it's unclear if that's a choice, or something you can uninstall afterwards.

My belief is that at some point IE 6 will no longer be supported with patches for vulnerabilities. When? Who knows?

I agree-Firefox 2 is the way to go. I had upgraded to IE7, It was nothing but troubles. It was very slow in loading, cannot close it when prompted to close, every time accessing it/the first thing that popup is a download box to choose Regular or Accelerate(I am not downloading anything!), I was not able to access my Email anymore when I click on my desktop email icon, poor interface configuration, couple crashes. It was more than I can take, in which I uninstalled IE7,and back to normal-using Firefox2 with IE tab has been a pleasure. Thanks. Channing.

I've used them all, and have been using SeaMonkey which transcends IE, and FireFox... SeaMonkey has both browser and email, and love them both..

Mr.B.

No one has yet convinced me that any of the above mentioned browsers are as fast or has been on the leading edge of the features Avant Browser has brought forward.

OPERA! OPERA! OPERA! I got IE7 and have uninstalled it. I got FF2 and don't like it as well as 1.505. Am going back. Opera 9.02 is smooth, fast, intuituive, and very customizable.
Use it for everything, and if a site doesn't support it--I DON'T SUPPORT THEM. Period.
You can download/install/import bookmarks and customize Opera in 20 min. Try it-you'll like it!

1101doc

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