[BulletBobCo]

I restored my computer to this morning to get rid of it. I'm ready to go to Firefox. Comments?

[JamesP81]

I hear IE 7 is supposed to be a big improvement over IE 6. As for Firefox, you can't go wrong there. It's fairly solid.

[xcamel]

you can remove it, and prevent it from trying to upgrade it again.

[Cementjungle]

It tried to do that to me too, but I opted for Custom Updates rather than Express and was able to exclude it (for now). I think I'll wait for the first service patch to be issued before I upgrade to it.

[Petronski]

It was forced onto one buddy's computer and wrecked a lot of links. I repaired them manually, but ultimately Ayieeeeeeeeeeeee! (er, I mean "IE") is a massive pipe perfect for pumping sewage onto your hard drive.


I've been using Mozilla/Firefox for more than four years, and highly recommend it. (Be sure to get Thunderbird for email too.)

[MadIvan]

Go over to Ubuntu Linux, and then get Swiftfox. You'll be shocked at how much faster it is.

Regards, Ivan

[TChris]

The day when Microsoft let you make the decisions about what gets installed on your computer have come and gone. If you run Windows, get used to it. Microsoft owns your PC. They honestly believe they own the whole industry.

[rocksblues]

I just received a new laptop from dell. Loaded with crap that I didn't order or want. Free trials etc. Especially annoying, Google toolbar, Google search, Mcaffe internet suite, junk and more junk!

[Morgan in Denver]

I have and use both, mostly Firefox. The new IE 7.0 is a lot better than 6 so you might consider using it. Firefox works great but it still requires many "extensions" to make it do what it's capable of. Extensions, meaning you can customize it for your needs. There should not be a conflict using both so you can do that as well as you choose which one you want to stay with.

[NickatNite2003]

Piece of crap *still" cant resize
text worth a turd...Much less allow
the user to set a personal default
for text size.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

My updates just converted Explorer 6 to 7.

Whenever MS updates wants you to download something...select Custom install. This will allow you to de-select any updates you don't want.

Of course, you need to have Updates set to alert you but do nothing until you say so.

I've been asked 4 times to upgrade to IE7. 4 times I have refused. Firefox rules.

[Kimmers]

I love firefox and I really like the add ons for the personalized home page....good luck

[lormand]

I'm using it now, and slightly like it better than Firefox now.

Our intranet doesn't work well with Firefox either.

[sittnick]

Just one more reason why I won't move the company's computers off of Windows 2000.

[mdittmar]

I'm behind the times,Windows Me,I.E. 5.5,and a dial up connection.

But I got it running like a fine swiss watch;)

[TChris]

My wife's PC is now running IE7. It seems to be slower because of the anti-phishing feature. The tool bars are less configurable than in IE6. That sucks. They also take up more real estate. That sucks. It seems to use a different display engine; the window resizing animation looks strange compared to other applications. That's at least odd.

I haven't compared the two for memory footprint, etc..

Microsoft's main objective seems to be making operating systems and applications that are slower, larger and more demanding. Somewhere in the shuffle, quality, reliability and efficiency got laid off.

I like Firefox.

[madison10]

Your's too, huh? I turned off the automatic update because I couldn't do ANY work without it popping up every other minute. I tried to download IE 7 last week, but it was a bust.

Firefox is awesome! I hardly ever use IE anymore. I don't know if Firefox works for updating MS office software, though.

[kesg]

I restored my computer to this morning to get rid of it.

Uh, why? It's a big improvement over IE 6. And you can run Firefox with or without IE 7.

[tomnbeverly]

It is useless to fight it human you will be assimilated.

[r9etb]

I restored my computer to this morning to get rid of it. I'm ready to go to Firefox. Comments?

Aside from some minor irritations (e.g., button placement), I like IE7.

[ShadowAce]