Do you have any practical experience with the difference between IE 6 and IE 7?

Every time I have a Microsoft Update I am prompted to install IE 7, which I have been declining. I am quite happy with IR 6 but I am not averse to change. The problem is that I don't like surprises as far as the browser is concerned and I wouldn't want to be prompted to all kind of alerts, functions turned off, etc., if I migrate to IE 7.

Thank you.

That is the problem with Microsoft, they will force you to upgrade. Since one of the improvement with IE 7 was with security you will get more prompts.

I think if you are happy with IE6 I say stay with it. The biggest feature in IE7 is tab browsing, to browse more than one website in the same browser.

If you are Windows user and planning to buy a new computer or upgrade to Vista next year, you will be using IE7.

Bill

I upgraded to IE7, I've no complaints other than they've done some minor rearranging for no apparent reason.

If it were an upgrade that they charged for I would say it wasn't worth it, but for free it's fine.

Aside from the tab browsing, the biggest addition I've seen is the "phishing filter" that claims to offer protection from fake websites trying to collect personal info.

I'm sure that Microsoft will eventually force people to upgrade by making new websites unavailable to older versions. Until then they will just nag you to death.

pete

I also upgraded to IE7 and it does not allow information on certain sites to come up, like when I went to leave a bounceback message on my webmail service. The options would not come up and I had called my web service provider who informed me it was IE7 causing the problem.

I have since gone to Mozilla Firefox as my browser and it has ALL the same options as IE7 and it imported all my bookmarks, cookies and the like from IE so I lost NOTHING.

It's a free download and it's powered by Google.

No pop ups (in fact less than IE)either!!

You can click mozilla firefox and get the free download.

I love it and it DOES NOT nor should you uninstall IE but set Firefox as your default browser. You can still click on IE if you want to.

Doug

Thank you all! Stuff to think about!

I would second the recommendation for Firefox, which has been my default browser for a couple of years.

I have upgraded to IE7, but cannot say I am overly impressed with it (And this is not because I have any sort of anti Bill Gates issues ).
I miss the dropdown menus of IE6 - File, Edit, View etc. This is because I tend to use the keyboard more than the mouse. I find the tabbed browsing less user friendly that Mozilla or Opera.

There is an option on the microsoft pages to stop the automatic upgrading. I am not sure of it'sexact address, but it should be asily findable.

Tim, you can add File, Edit, View, etc. to IE7-- right click a vacant space on the toolbar, a menu pops up, click Menu Bar. But I agree - here's a third vote for Firefox and its companion e-mail program, Thunderbird.