IE7 and FF2
Nov. 23rd, 2006 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deannawolSo, I've upgraded both my browsers at work, mainly cause I was bored I have to admit but now I'm running with Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7.
Firefox 2 is interesting. Look is a bit different but the feel is pretty much the same. Although, a new feature is that it has session recovery. If it happens to crash it will pick up pretty much where it left off, except your individual page sessions have been dumped. So if you're in the middle of a post, you'll lose it, but that's expected. Bad point is that it's sufficiently different that older add-ons don't work anymore, but there are a host of new ones, including Performancing which is an LJ in-browser client and it's pretty nifty - gives you all the comms that you're a member of to choose from. Can't say too much about it that's bad mainly cause I generally like it. It's a bit resource heavy but still runs away in the background.
Internet Explorer 7 is very different to is predecessor. It's very different in look and feel. You actually have to muck around with it to see if you can find the menu bar but it finally appears. You also have to poke around before you can have Google as your search engine. The usual buttons are missing, you know, the ones that we've been used to for the past god knows how many years. If you're observant, you can find the home button, the refresh and the stop. Back and forward are there but no where near refresh or stop. But F5 still works and Ctrl-T works to get a new tab, I suppose thats the good side of it. There's also a quick tabs thingy on it that lets you look at all your pages to choose from them, although why you need it, I'm not quite sure. Hmmm. I'm reserving judgement on this one for a while until I form an opinion more than "It's different!"
Firefox 2 is interesting. Look is a bit different but the feel is pretty much the same. Although, a new feature is that it has session recovery. If it happens to crash it will pick up pretty much where it left off, except your individual page sessions have been dumped. So if you're in the middle of a post, you'll lose it, but that's expected. Bad point is that it's sufficiently different that older add-ons don't work anymore, but there are a host of new ones, including Performancing which is an LJ in-browser client and it's pretty nifty - gives you all the comms that you're a member of to choose from. Can't say too much about it that's bad mainly cause I generally like it. It's a bit resource heavy but still runs away in the background.
Internet Explorer 7 is very different to is predecessor. It's very different in look and feel. You actually have to muck around with it to see if you can find the menu bar but it finally appears. You also have to poke around before you can have Google as your search engine. The usual buttons are missing, you know, the ones that we've been used to for the past god knows how many years. If you're observant, you can find the home button, the refresh and the stop. Back and forward are there but no where near refresh or stop. But F5 still works and Ctrl-T works to get a new tab, I suppose thats the good side of it. There's also a quick tabs thingy on it that lets you look at all your pages to choose from them, although why you need it, I'm not quite sure. Hmmm. I'm reserving judgement on this one for a while until I form an opinion more than "It's different!"
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Date: 2006-11-23 12:54 pm (UTC)IE7 struck me as "just enough, but far too late."
The ability to view all your tabs is something that Mozilla should pay heed to, but other than that, nothing I'm really excited about.
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Date: 2006-11-23 01:01 pm (UTC)