Thread: Firefox2.0 Release Canidate 3

I put IE7 back on because of the mandatory upgrade that's supposed to happen sometime soon. I dislike the idea that Microsoft, among other things, hopes to shore up it search share by shoving IE7 at people. The search integration is tighter in IE7, and some assume this will generate more queries for Microsoft. Since it's coming, I need to look at IE7 more closely.[/b]

No, the IE7 update is not mandatory; not sure where you read that. I can't see why anyone would willingly want to stay with IE6, which is a piece of crud, but it will ask your permission before updating. (IE Team says so).

I remember if you didn't restart when installing IE 7 you get an error like the "0x0000000" one you mentioned. Although it's probably not because of that at all, probably to do with Windows Update instead. You aren't the only one to get that exact error. A lot of people find Windows Update to be a nightmare, it's strange, it's always worked pretty smoothly for me but I think it probably is kinda fragile.

IE 7 install was relatively painless for me. The old installers do not uninstall cleanly without some manual work - were you working with IE 7 RC 1 or some older version?

Firefox RC 3 didn't astound me. All the big new features (inline spellchecker, session storing, bookmark syncing?) are basically things that extensions already did but are now built into the browser, and the RSS support is nothing as decent as IE 7s. It doesn't have a built in RSS viewer like IE 7 does, and the Firefox RSS Reader extensions basically suck. So that sucks for me, although I guess what doesn't astound me will astound someone else. On a positive note, that 'x' on tabs now was a definitely great usability enhancement, I saw it in IE 7 first, and people have told me before 'closing tabs is so confusing!' so great call there. And apparently Javascript 1.7 is in there now? Even better.

Take my words with a grain of salt. I'll come up with a better, more well researched (and by 'well' I mean 'at all&#39 review of it later.

Originally Posted by Kaniaz

No, the IE7 update is not mandatory; not sure where you read that. I can't see why anyone would willingly want to stay with IE6, which is a piece of crud, but it will ask your permission before updating. (IE Team says so).
I was under the impression that even without notification that IE7 would automatically install making IE6 obselete. Yeah one of my collegues told me on a whim. Thanks for the link it's pretty clear now. So what's going to happen to the person who told me? Well... haha..

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IE 7 install was relatively painless for me. The old installers do not uninstall cleanly without some manual work - were you working with IE 7 RC 1 or some older version?[/b]

Yup you are right I did goof up and install the earliest ver. I have no idea what I was thinking I never install any first patches of anything because I know it&#39;s terror waiting to happen. I think it&#39;s called over excitement.

Originally Posted by Kaniaz

Firefox RC 3 didn&#39;t astound me. All the big new features (inline spellchecker, session storing, bookmark syncing?) are basically things that extensions already did but are now built into the browser, and the RSS support is nothing as decent as IE 7s. It doesn&#39;t have a built in RSS viewer like IE 7 does, and the Firefox RSS Reader extensions basically suck. So that sucks for me, although I guess what doesn&#39;t astound me will astound someone else. On a positive note, that &#39;x&#39; on tabs now was a definitely great usability enhancement, I saw it in IE 7 first, and people have told me before &#39;closing tabs is so confusing&#33;&#39; so great call there. And apparently Javascript 1.7 is in there now? Even better.[/b]

Yeah java 1.7 is pretty cool. And you are right the RSS reader ext. did disgust me but I figured I could live with it. I must say IE 7 does rock with that RSS viewer, Firefox should&#39;ve pirated that feature then it definately would&#39;ve been kick ass central..j/k

Take my words with a grain of salt. I&#39;ll come up with a better, more well researched (and by &#39;well&#39; I mean &#39;at all&#39 review of it later.[/b][/quote]

That&#39;s what I find cool is that you will do your research, you&#39;ve never faltered in that area. Thanks Kaniaz Yeah yeah.. I know the post is twisted. My bad.