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Chrysalis · 27-10-2006, 05:07

Well I have upgraded and I think they have made a massive cock up.

1 - The interface has changed completly with by default the menu been hard to find and the toolbars layed out in a different order. Its a big mistake to suddenly change a interface that your userbase is used to, wonder how people will react when winupdate puts IE7 silently next month.

2 - Limited customisation of the layout cant move toolbars around freely and no skinning.

3 - Tabs limited to 1 row, this is very poor I went to transfer the 40 odd tabs I have loaded in maxthon to IE7 thinking finally I dont need to use 3rd party for IE browsing but how wrong was I, by using 1 row unless you dont mind not seeing all your tab titles at once its limited to about 10 tabs per window on a 1280x1024 screen res.

4 - Poor cache performance, this could have been improved to catch up with opera but wasnt.

On the upside it seems to have a lower memory footprint and is noticeably faster then IE6, havent noticed any websites loading wrong yet. However I have disabled the tabbed mode, I managed to find a way to get the menu bar back that is possible but hard to find the option. Still trying to get used to the new buttons tho.

27-10-2006, 05:07	#79
Chrysalis cf.mega poster Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 12,047	Re: IE7 full release Well I have upgraded and I think they have made a massive cock up. 1 - The interface has changed completly with by default the menu been hard to find and the toolbars layed out in a different order. Its a big mistake to suddenly change a interface that your userbase is used to, wonder how people will react when winupdate puts IE7 silently next month. 2 - Limited customisation of the layout cant move toolbars around freely and no skinning. 3 - Tabs limited to 1 row, this is very poor I went to transfer the 40 odd tabs I have loaded in maxthon to IE7 thinking finally I dont need to use 3rd party for IE browsing but how wrong was I, by using 1 row unless you dont mind not seeing all your tab titles at once its limited to about 10 tabs per window on a 1280x1024 screen res. 4 - Poor cache performance, this could have been improved to catch up with opera but wasnt. On the upside it seems to have a lower memory footprint and is noticeably faster then IE6, havent noticed any websites loading wrong yet. However I have disabled the tabbed mode, I managed to find a way to get the menu bar back that is possible but hard to find the option. Still trying to get used to the new buttons tho.