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.
I installed IE 7 and my HP Director would not open.
Contacted HP and they advised to uninstall and reinstall IE 6 until Microsoft develops a patch for HP products.
Personally I like the IE 7 but it doesn't seem as user friendly as the IE 6.
I am a novice user and too many bells and whistles seems to cause me lots of confusinounion oops....confusion.