Bleccchh!!! ‘Nuff said.
Oh, okay. I’ll try to control my stomach long enough to be slightly more specific.
- No menus! (Has someone gone nuts at Microsoft?)
- Skimpy, non-configurable toolbar.
- Cramped, ugly, unusable Tabs.
- Lack of Tab tools.
- Lack of extensions.
- Near-impossibility of creating extensions.
- Total absence of new usability features.
- Ugly as s**t.
- Still way too much of a system hog.
- After years of development, no meaningful improvements.
IE7 reminds me way too much of Vista as a whole: tarted up with silly window-dressing, and totally devoid of any real concern with usability.
Compare Firefox: simple, clear, unpretentious; loaded to the gunwales with features that actually improve your quality of life… and supported by a vast base of users who keep making it better and better, on almost a daily basis. Small, light, easy to install, easy to maintain, easy to configure and tweak.
In short, IE7 is perhaps the single most totally disappointing ‘upgrade’ to come along with Vista. Oh, and one other ‘genuine advantage:’ if you’re not careful, you’ll end up with it even on Windows XP. (Yet another excellent reason to keep Automatic Updates firmly disabled.)
