Internet Explorer 7.0

[Fred98]

[font="compatilfact lt regular"]As for tabs in browsers they do nothing for me.  Often when I click on a link I right-click and “Open in another window”.[/font]
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[font="compatilfact lt regular"]So I have not found a use for tabs.[/font]
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[rhondabrwn]

ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck

ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn

Firefox just continues to get better and has a clear advantage over the Microsoft browser. In a sense, they have claimed the "high ground" and Microsoft is having to try to implement similar features as Firefox without obviously stealing their ideas. As a result, MS is having to develop a "unique look" which people seem to agree is not all that useful or attractive. I was turned off to it the first time I loaded their beta and the release version isn't any better.

As for the stealing part so many people seem to harp one these days.

Well it is not that everything of the nice features of Firefox was invented by its developers [;)]. If you say MS is stealing from Firefox then you have to say that Firefox is stealing from Opera (first browser with Tabs and PopUp-Blocker) and the older Netscape browsers too.

In the end it would come down to the first mainstream internet browsers, which were Netscape's Navigator and the IE.

Agreed... I was an Opera fan before Firefox came along. However, Firefox just did a better job overall and I drifted away from using Opera. I personally have no objection to Microsoft "stealing" ideas, but I maintain that their own pride drives them to try and appear "different". Of course, who knows... maybe they honestly like the way they designed IE7 [:D]

[jvgfanatic]

ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn

ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck

ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn

Firefox just continues to get better and has a clear advantage over the Microsoft browser. In a sense, they have claimed the "high ground" and Microsoft is having to try to implement similar features as Firefox without obviously stealing their ideas. As a result, MS is having to develop a "unique look" which people seem to agree is not all that useful or attractive. I was turned off to it the first time I loaded their beta and the release version isn't any better.

As for the stealing part so many people seem to harp one these days.

Well it is not that everything of the nice features of Firefox was invented by its developers [;)]. If you say MS is stealing from Firefox then you have to say that Firefox is stealing from Opera (first browser with Tabs and PopUp-Blocker) and the older Netscape browsers too.

In the end it would come down to the first mainstream internet browsers, which were Netscape's Navigator and the IE.

Agreed... I was an Opera fan before Firefox came along. However, Firefox just did a better job overall and I drifted away from using Opera. I personally have no objection to Microsoft "stealing" ideas, but I maintain that their own pride drives them to try and appear "different". Of course, who knows... maybe they honestly like the way they designed IE7 [:D]

In response to the bolded part, you are now confusing Microsoft with Apple. Microsoft has never strived to be "different," their money is in mainstream, they rely on smaller companies to take the risks. Only after those risks have proven themselves effective does Microsoft adopt (or buy) them. At that point it is no longer "different."

Microsoft has an internal policy which pretty much squashes any radical ideas long before they get into a product like Office or IE. This is, of course, unless those ideas are had by the 20-something-just-out-of-grad-school Program Managers they tend to put in charge of the products millions are forced to use.

[rhondabrwn]

ORIGINAL: jvgfanatic

ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn

ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck



As for the stealing part so many people seem to harp one these days.

Well it is not that everything of the nice features of Firefox was invented by its developers [;)]. If you say MS is stealing from Firefox then you have to say that Firefox is stealing from Opera (first browser with Tabs and PopUp-Blocker) and the older Netscape browsers too.

In the end it would come down to the first mainstream internet browsers, which were Netscape's Navigator and the IE.

Agreed... I was an Opera fan before Firefox came along. However, Firefox just did a better job overall and I drifted away from using Opera. I personally have no objection to Microsoft "stealing" ideas, but I maintain that their own pride drives them to try and appear "different". Of course, who knows... maybe they honestly like the way they designed IE7 [:D]

In response to the bolded part, you are now confusing Microsoft with Apple. Microsoft has never strived to be "different," their money is in mainstream, they rely on smaller companies to take the risks. Only after those risks have proven themselves effective does Microsoft adopt (or buy) them. At that point it is no longer "different."

Microsoft has an internal policy which pretty much squashes any radical ideas long before they get into a product like Office or IE. This is, of course, unless those ideas are had by the 20-something-just-out-of-grad-school Program Managers they tend to put in charge of the products millions are forced to use.

Ya gotta point there! [:D]