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personally I use Firefox. I also noticed quite a few IE installs where connectivity was lost because of the "automatically detect settings". that in itself would be reason not to use it until fixed
Ken
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See 2 tabs at the same time. Let user select 1 or 2 startpage(s) in each tap
Pause/resume downloads
let user set a download speedlimit pr tab, giving better scaling when downloading from severel places at the same time
For me FF is more confusing than IE because of the great numbers of plugin that it needs, and that activeX objects can't be used, not even in its own thread.
ie8 is very fast for me...faster then firefox ...seems to be a tie with google chrome, but i have many more toolbars oepning with ie8 which i want.
only problem is that my typed urls seem to get deleted now and then .
I totally agree with both of you.
I look at I.E. and in the context of Windows 7 it really is the last vestige of the dinosaur that the old OS's had become, and like 7 it needs not an overhaul on what's there already, but a total redesign from the ground up.
Once again, back t obasics, look at what people actually do with their browsers rather than what they think they will do.
I'd love to see tabs that can be docked to display side by side for comparative viewing, or even better, torn free of the main window and dragged off the browser to create a window of it's own.
I'm not really interested in accelerators and complexities, I want a lightning fast browser, with tabs that is fully compatible and alows me to save a download, and if I need to go away perhaps pause and resume at a later time. A propper download client within the browser.
And a proper API would be excellent, as you say it would stop a lot of the nasties getting in, at the moment MS has been kind enough to leave the back gate open and the keys in the door for far too long.
Also on the subject of browsers and the Euro edition why doesn't MS just have a folder on the desktop with the .exe files for IE, safari, FF, Chrome etc and then it can say that the choice is there all along. A little presentation from each of the mfrs pitching their product's plus points and there you go, MS proactively giving choice, and therefore, taking the wind out of the whingers sails .
My suggestion is to stop developing Internet Explorer, and gradually fade it out from Windows, the same way they did for winhlp32.exe. First stop developing it, then remove it making it available from their website, then stop even supporting it. The money or the man power wasted (because it's a waste) on IE could be better spent on other stuff, like the development of Windows. Windows 7 is good, but it could be even better if they didn't waste their time and money developing IE 8.
That is what the EU-guys wanted Microsoft to do, but Microsoft choosed to remove the browser instead. Why should Microsoft spend time and money advertising for their competitors? I can fully understand MS in this.
Spellchecking in my language (at least the version I tried), security plug-in for my homebanking as FF don't support ActiveX.Good ideas. what plugin's does firefox "need"?
Ken