Comments on: Here we blow again: the embarassing IE7 launch

By: Hmmcast #26: getting in shape » Make You Go Hmm

Hmmcast #26: getting in shape » Make You Go Hmm — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:00:10 +0000

[…] - The iPod exercise purchase (1) [oct 15] - Not Linked In, thankfully? (6) [oct 16] - Plasma to be replaced by laser TV? (5) [oct 18] - Here we blow again: the embarassing IE7 launch (2) [oct 19] “IE7’s crashed once on me since RC1, with Firefox 1.5 and beyond, it’s pretty much something that happens weekly. With the way I browse, it’s a huge annoyance to lose dozens of tabs that I had open and try to remember what I had and hadn’t seen. It’s good that there’s an extension for 1.5.x to save tabs, and that 2.0 will have it built in, but I much prefered the 1.0.x days when I could just open and open and open them, leave them open for days on end before getting through them, and not have to wonder with each new tab, “Is this going to be the one that crashes them all?”” – Comment by n00b — October 19, 2006 @ 10:52 pm […]

By: TDavid

TDavid — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:41:32 +0000

Thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts, n00b.

By: n00b

n00b — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:56:34 +0000

Whoops, forgot the (*), which is: I know there are a couple of Greasemonkey act-alikes for IE, but the compatibility could be better. Haven’t investigated them in probably 6 months or so — maybe they’ve improved, or maybe they’ve died — ’cause like I noted above, I really don’t even know why I’m still bothering to keep Greasemonkey itself installed anymore.

By: n00b

n00b — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:52:58 +0000

Yep, been using IE7 more and more since Beta 2 or so. Don’t have the patience anymore for the Firefox hangs and crashes and horrible memory management. Don’t care about clogging it up with extensions, I’d rather have a default browser that I’m happy with than bother keeping all my extensions/addons in sync from computer to computer.

I look at the extensions that I have installed on the Firefox install on this computer — Dom Inspector, Greasemonkey, Google Notebook, and Web Developer — and all but Greasemonkey(*) have equivalents available for IE7, and damned if I even remember what sites I had bothered installing Greasemonkey for anyway.

IE7’s crashed once on me since RC1, with Firefox 1.5 and beyond, it’s pretty much something that happens weekly. With the way I browse, it’s a huge annoyance to lose dozens of tabs that I had open and try to remember what I had and hadn’t seen. It’s good that there’s an extension for 1.5.x to save tabs, and that 2.0 will have it built in, but I much prefered the 1.0.x days when I could just open and open and open them, leave them open for days on end before getting through them, and not have to wonder with each new tab, “Is this going to be the one that crashes them all?”

The past couple of days, I’ve still probably used Firefox for more than 50% of my browsing (compared to 99.5% back when it was Firefox vs. IE6), but if they don’t get their sh*t together with 2.0, that number’s going to keep dropping.