Internet Explorer 7 - day 1
I’m home again. And ufcorse I’m using IE 7 for the whole evening. I must confess. I like it. I really like it.
1. I like the whole interface. There are not a lot of menus, which like FF takes a lot of space. You have only the important ones. Here I give the point for IE.
2. Tabs are great. They are bigger than in FF, and graphically more complex. I like the way to close tabs, which have x on every tab, when the tab is active. Bon Echo has similar sistem, but I like this one more. You can open new tabs by clicking on the empty one. In the tab line you can see so called Quick tabs, which shows all opened tabs whith screenshots of pages. Another point for IE.
3. Weird fonts. After installation I noticed that fonts are too big, and they looks like they are not the original one. I didn’t find a way to fix that. This point goes to FF.
4. Zoom. IE7 has the greatest zoom efect I ever seen in any browser. We can zoom/zoom out with pressing s ctrl+/- or with menu which is at the right corner in the status bar. Firefox don’t have zoom effect. There is weird “zoom” effect, but it only creates fonts bigger. We cant say that this is really a zoom effect. FF has plugins, but none of them cant zoom the whole page (pictures, fonts, etc.) that page looks weird - tables broke and page is looking really lame. Point for IE.
5. No plugins. Point for FF.
6. Built-in anti-phising and pop-up blocker. I tested both and it looks to be fully functional and reliable. You have plugins in Firefox which have this protection, but settings are better and as my opinion FF protection against phising and popups is better. I give point to both - FF & IE7
7. Beta version dont have Slovenian language. Point for FF.
To sum up, microsoft has done great job. I’m very impressed by the browser. As i wrote the only mistake for now which I can’t accept are fonts. Pages looks lame with it. If this can’t be fixed, I’ll stick to FF.
Both competitors got 4 point. After first day of use IE7… It’s very great so I think really all users schould test it, even if they are FF, Safari, Konqueror, or any other browser user.
