I have given IE7 a fair chance, really… well I have! It started out as my default browser shortly after it was released. Then, after a week of watching it hang, and bring down half my system with it, I demoted it to my not default browser and put Firefox back as my default browser.

Of course various sites still require IE to function so I kept it going and would use it several times a day. But over the weeks it kept getting ever more fragile, and was finally starting to crash just loading Google as my home page.

(Hmmmmm, would Google do… Nah, I am not that much of a conspiracy nut!!!)

Anyway, today was the proverbial last straw and I uninstalled IE7. I am now happily back to IE6 for all things ActiveX and Microsoft specific, and use Firefox 2.0 for most of my day to day browsing. I can’t exist without some flavor of IE installed and 7 was just not working.

I will try it again, maybe when 7.1 comes out?

Cheers,

Robert Porter