Internet Explorer 7 caused a wave of criticism in the blogosphere
A few hours after the official release of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP (SP2 or x64) and Windows Server 2003 , detailed reviews of the new program appeared in the blogosphere, with screenshots of all key functions. The number of references to “ Internet Explorer 7 ” in the blogosphere very quickly exceeded 40 thousand . It must be admitted that many reviews were critical.
The size of the IE7 distribution under XP is14.8 MB , which is three times as large as Firefox or Opera. To install the program you need to reboot twice, and the whole process takes about ten minutes.
Striking changes in the interface. For example, the “Forward” and “Back” buttons are combined into a single module, as well as “Stop” and “Refresh”. Access to the settings is not through the menu, using six small buttons. Almost all of the new features (support for RSS feeds tabs, search line, protection against phishing) were known in detail earlier, at the time of the release of preliminary versions , especially since five beta versions of IE7 have been released in the last 14 months.
InInternet Explorer 7 , support for network standards has been improved, including transparent PNGs, CSS 2.1, and Ajax, but this also means that some sites will now appear differently in IE.
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Simultaneously with the release of IE7, a site opened with extensions to it (add-ons), many of which were known a long time ago. The most popular extensions include the Avant Browser browser , a utility for saving Flash animations on the Flash2X Flash Hunter hard drive, a utility for automatically entering passwords into all forms of RoboForm , etc. Programs come to the directory automatically under a contract with Download.com .
The blogosphere discusses security problems with the new browser (the first hole has already been found in it), its speed, and the strange fact that the IE7 distribution first appeared on the Yahoo website , and only then the official launch took place on the Microsoft website. Many bloggers are trying to self-test IE7 andFirefox 2 and report that Firefox 2 runs much faster .
The size of the IE7 distribution under XP is
Striking changes in the interface. For example, the “Forward” and “Back” buttons are combined into a single module, as well as “Stop” and “Refresh”. Access to the settings is not through the menu, using six small buttons. Almost all of the new features (support for RSS feeds tabs, search line, protection against phishing) were known in detail earlier, at the time of the release of preliminary versions , especially since five beta versions of IE7 have been released in the last 14 months.
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Simultaneously with the release of IE7, a site opened with extensions to it (add-ons), many of which were known a long time ago. The most popular extensions include the Avant Browser browser , a utility for saving Flash animations on the Flash2X Flash Hunter hard drive, a utility for automatically entering passwords into all forms of RoboForm , etc. Programs come to the directory automatically under a contract with Download.com .
The blogosphere discusses security problems with the new browser (the first hole has already been found in it), its speed, and the strange fact that the IE7 distribution first appeared on the Yahoo website , and only then the official launch took place on the Microsoft website. Many bloggers are trying to self-test IE7 and
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