Is IE7 safe?

Firefox annoys me with its stupid name and weird interface. Is IE7 finally safe to use?

IE7 is fine.

I'm sure lots of people will tell you different "because its Microsoft" though.

IE7 Protected Mode in Vista is safe(ish), don't assume IE7 on XP has the same protection because it does not.

Perhaps with a couple of addons and some tweaking you might get Firefox to work how you want. Maybe try using mouse gestures to take control over how you move around tabs, close tabs etc.

I'm growing to like IE7, but I'm still a little hesitant to use it for my online banking yet.

If you think Firefox has a "weird interface" then I doubt you'll like IE7 as it's basically the same with extra weirdness.

IE7 loks different, but it took me a grand total of 5 minutes to adapt. Things are in different places, but the 99.9% of stuff that gets used the most works the same as IE6. (favorites, history, options)

Check it out! (IE7 only):
www.leadwerks.com/post/test.htm

? it's .PNG? Other IE's could do transparent .png if you know about style sheets and filters.

I like IE7, it does warn you of any possible malicious things that might be going on, unlike firefox which never told me what was happening. I suppose it can be frustrating if you don't like clicking on a yellow bar at the top to run an activeX or download a file etc.

YOu used to have to hack older IE's to get proper PNG loading, 7 works a charm, maybe finaly PNG will become more popular in web pages :)

I would not be so sure about that although 99.9% of the time you can expect to be warned about everything including the likelihood of getting a warning.

If only it would print out correctly too... last time I tested both FF and IE printed full black instead of transparency...

You might want to try Opera 9.1. It's relatively lightweight, standards compliant and free. IMO, it's the best browser on the Windows platform...

On Vista it's fine, on XP not so much.

"Opera" is a retarded name. No matter how good a program is, I don't want it on my machine if it has some stupid name like "Opera" or "Hen House" or "Pickle Jar".

Uh, OK.

Well anyway, IE7 is more safe than IE6 XPSP2 and IE6 was perfectly safe to begin with. If you hate Firefox you have no reason not to use it. It's not like you don't know how to avoid obviously bad sites anyway.

Eh?

Did you actually use IE6 and "safe" in the same sentence there? That must be some new meaning of "safe" that I was previously unaware of.

anyway, all kidding aside: IE7 is safer than IE6. Too bad that its UI looks like it was written by monkeys smoking illegal mind altering substances.

Why not try SeaMonkey (http://www.seamonkey.at)?
It's the same engine like firefox (but also a mail client and lot more) an you can download skins to get a different interface.

If a stupid name annoys you then Sea Monkey sounds even more stupid :)


And the IE on windows Vista...
I just don't know man.
They removed the pull-down menus which makes me search for some features longer.
Heck, I don't like that interface at all.
But maybe that's just a personal preferrence.

is mozilla better than firefox? (i dont really uderstand the differences as they are the same entity)
mozilla certainly looks better...

As for ie7 i wish id never upgraded it. It constantly asks me for confirmation on everything, "but thats a good thing" i hear you all say!!, but NO! when i rightclick on a say... a zip file using explorer(not ie) i do not need it to ask me "This file could be dangerous" OH NO!!!!!!! :O !!! oh my god!!..... as i know what im doing.
Even if i didnt "know what im doing" would probably click yes just out of curiosity(probably 80% of windows users) Also i HATE the layout(and im certainly not alone), now i cant find anyrhing as quick as before.

Th only useful feature of ie7 ive found so far is the new tab button (which firefox has had for ages!)

Yup, after years of using IE6 I never had a single thing go wrong ever.


Right click toolbar/tab area --> tick Menu Bar. Not hard.


I thought FireFox was just a more recent version of Mozilla?


Oh boo hoo. It's so hard what they're making you do. How can you sleep at night knowing you have to face that again some time in the future?


It's also opened my eyes to the world of RSS =]

SeaMonkey (formerly Mozilla) is the complete suite in one (browser, mail, etc) and Firefox is the browser separated out from the other items. The Mozilla Foundation makes both products.

How nice for you. That doesn't mean that you had nothing to worry about when you're using IE6 though. There have been many pieces of spyware over the years that managed to install themselves through IE6 with no user interaction.

One example was the nice bug in the image rendering system where a specifically crafted *image* could trigger an overflow in the image rendering engine, executing arbitrary code on your computer allowing a malicious website (or malicious 3rd party banner ad served through a reputable website!) to take over your computer.

I don't remember the name of the bug in question, but it's just one in a long list of them.




It bugs me to no end that the toolbar then shows up *below* the oversized addressbar at the top of the window, thereby violating Microsoft's own design guidelines.

the other really annoying thing is that the tabs don't overflow to a 2nd row if you have a lot of them open, and don't shrink down as much as they do in competing browsers. I often have ~50 or so tabs open, which is completely unusable in IE7.



It's a fork. they share a common ancestor, but are both developed independently.

erm, ok...
I have an archive for my website consisting of thousands of zip files. Before i could simply process lots of them relitively quickly ie, right click unpack or right click cut etc.
Ok, its one more question to answer but when you are constantly unpacking / moving loads at a time that is more like 100s of questions.

(annoying!!!, and yes i know about other software and scripts.. but thats not my point)

Whereas before i used either my windows or linux machine to do this, i now only do any archive organising using linux/gnome as its a lot faster in the end.
So i beleive its a step back for windows and has made that part of the os less efficient. Its ok for browsing the internet and stuff but why should an INTERNET BROWSER suddenly change the way the normal windows file browser works? (and to be honest, if they had a proper permissions based file system in the first place they wouldnt need it anyway.. at least not as a risk to the system level)

Whats new about RSS?, it was developed by netscape ages ago and is nothing to do with ie7 or microsoft.

I still cross the road, knowing full well I could be hit by a truck.

I'm not about to live in fear because of 'could haves'.


Of which no major exploits were using that trick until AFTER the approriate Windows Update patch had come along.


If you take another look at their guidelines (I havn't, mind you), I'm sure you'll find they've adjusted that bit, because that's how every single Vista window looks.


When did I say it was new?