http://www.adamhopkinson.co.uk/blog/2006/03/07/where-ie7-could-beat-firefox/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:55:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.adamhopkinson.co.uk/blog/2006/03/07/where-ie7-could-beat-firefox/#comment-2396 Robert Stokes Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:02:22 +0000 http://www.adamhopkinson.co.uk/2006/03/07/where-ie7-could-beat-firefox/#comment-2396 After running IE 7 Beta 2 for a couple of months now, I've found it to be incredibly slow when compared to non-MS browsers. It's true that it is quicker than IE6 (not saying much!) and that they've put some nice features in, but the performance issue is just too great to ignore. I was really hoping for better this time around. Compare it to the latest release of Opera which is lightning fast (even when compared to Firefox) and includes features such as user-customisable searches, a built-in BitTorrent client, much improved tabbed browsing (trash can feature), mouse gestures and session state management. It's just a shame that some sites still don't work with Opera properly and I'm forced into using IE as well! After running IE 7 Beta 2 for a couple of months now, I’ve found it to be incredibly slow when compared to non-MS browsers. It’s true that it is quicker than IE6 (not saying much!) and that they’ve put some nice features in, but the performance issue is just too great to ignore. I was really hoping for better this time around. Compare it to the latest release of Opera which is lightning fast (even when compared to Firefox) and includes features such as user-customisable searches, a built-in BitTorrent client, much improved tabbed browsing (trash can feature), mouse gestures and session state management. It’s just a shame that some sites still don’t work with Opera properly and I’m forced into using IE as well!

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