I read about this a few weeks ago, in the words of Microsoft (paraphrased): "All Windows users will be able to download security patches and service packs no matter the authenticity of their Windows software, while premium downloads such as IE7 will not be authorized to illegal versions." Why this is exactly I don't know. Perhaps as punishment ? :rolleyes:

Yes. That is what I know too. Maybe MS doesnt think that IE6 is so much a security risk as people make us believe.:-|

: ) I still prefer firefox, although I am glad Microsoft has finally put out something decent.

Personally, I have no preference. Honestly. Sometimes I'd find myself using Firefox, other times IE. Firefox 3 *does* have some cool features, but they're more like the new features in Vista, than say an actual product revision. Not really enough to warrant me making a cold switch.

I love FF for it's extensions, I can browse without a mouse, squash all the adds, interogate HTTP Headers ... etc etc etc If I need IE rendering for a non-standards site right click the FF tab and switch rendering engine.

I prefer IE's dev toolbar add-in though and thats when I use IE mostly. IE is perceptably slower to me particularly opening new tabs. It makes my teeth grind sometimes.

I use FF because I don't like advertising all over my screen. I particularly hate those roll-over and scroller adds that require that click to close. There may be add-ons to IE that do the same thing but I have not found them (or really tried). I only use IE7 when I am contracted to a house that requires it.

MS is a for-profit business - I can not imagine them being as vigilantly anti-adverts as FF which is a non-profit business. And, of course, I don't trust MS to do anything that interferes with their bottom line. This is why I choose to use Google for all my searching needs, they try very hard to separate search results from advertising. I once used yahoo to search Alzheimer's and got the message "you can purchase Alzheimer's at ----"

Out of curiosity, have any of you tried out the new IE yet? Any thoughts on how it compares?

(disclaimer: I'm not using it yet either... :P)

I don't trust MS to do anything that interferes with their bottom line. This is why I choose to use Google for all my searching needs, they try very hard to separate search results from advertising.

Haha, because Google is *so* much less of a corporation that MS is. As for the advertising, it's not so much that Google wants to hide their ads from you, no, they're just a lot more sneaky with them.

I say anybody who trusts one corporation while denouncing another, especially Google over MS, needs therapy.

Haha, because Google is *so* much less of a corporation that MS is. As for the advertising, it's not so much that Google wants to hide their ads from you, no, they're just a lot more sneaky with them.

I say anybody who trusts one corporation while denouncing another, especially Google over MS, needs therapy.

NO! NO! NO! Google puts their paid ads along the top and the right side; whereas, MS and Yahoo put their paid ads within the search results so there is no distinction. The more you pay, the higher up in the search results are.

and NO! NO! NO! I do not trust google - I use NoScript to block googlesyndication and google-analytics; I do not use googletools or google desktop.

I use trackmenot to confuse search engines; I use TrashMail to confuse registrations.

I use EQuakeAlert to see what is happening geologically around the world (there was an M-5 quake in Indonesia

> MS and Yahoo put their paid ads within the search results so there is no distinction

GOTO.com (later renamed to Overture) used to do this. Once they were bought out by Yahoo!, they stopped and took on a structure similar to Google. I don't use MSN so I cannot be 100% sure but I don't believe they do this either.

I stick with firefox even though it's memory leaks drive me nuts. But the restore session is nice so when firefox does crash I can pick up where I left off.

> MS and Yahoo put their paid ads within the search results so there is no distinction

GOTO.com (later renamed to Overture) used to do this. Once they were bought out by Yahoo!, they stopped and took on a structure similar to Google. I don't use MSN so I cannot be 100% sure but I don't believe they do this either.

I just did a Yahoo search on "alzheimer's" - the top position was a sponsored result and there were 'sponsor results' threaded throughout. I find it difficult to understand the positioning of the 'sponsor results' flag that is off to the right - is it in reference only to the nearest entry or the following entry, or the following entries.

All-in-all, I just end up suspicious.

When I find sites that manage to hijack google searches, I can report it and will get a reply within a couple of days and they seem to tweak their algorithms and that sort of thing does no recur.

Personal preference, I guess.

I stick with firefox even though it's memory leaks drive me nuts. But the restore session is nice so when firefox does crash I can pick up where I left off.

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Yes, I don't bother to close my FF sessions when I shut down so I always come back to where I was - I have a thread that I started 4 days ago that comes back up in the middle of my edit. With a couple of clicks, I can figure out what the heck it was I talking about and back up to speed.

I like IE7 but it has major memory issues - if i have more than 40 tabs open , even with 3gb ram, it lags and crashes.

I like IE7 but it has major memory issues - if i have more than 40 tabs open , even with 3gb ram, it lags and crashes.

If you're feeling adventurous, you might try IE8b1 out. Of course, it's still a beta, but I heard they put a lot more effort into performance. b1 performs much better than IE7, and it's still not optimized (that doesn't happen till the final launch usually).

Why would you have 40 tabs open in the first place?

daniweb. i open all the threads i need to reply to, then systematically answer them

And to think all this time I have been replying to threads in an Ad-hoc manner. ;-)

I don't like what the last IE upgrade did to Windows.

It changed all of the icons in My Documents so they look like little documents, with the original icon shrunk down so tiny that you can't tell which icon is which. It also fixed things so you can't change the icons back.

I don't like what the last IE upgrade did to Windows.

It changed all of the icons in My Documents so they look like little documents, with the original icon shrunk down so tiny that you can't tell which icon is which. It also fixed things so you can't change the icons back.

Funny, I didn't think IE had anything to do with My Documents anymore...