After reading through the long thread that Martin started, it became
obvious that Firefox was largely being compared to IE6.

IE7 does have tabs, in fact I'm using them now, and is significantly
different to IE6. It's worth looking at some reviews
(http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/ie7.asp being one). It has copied
a lot from Firefox, I'm not saying it's better, but it's a lot closer.

There are some niggles. If you have the Google toolbar installed, you
can't seem to prevent Google being the deault seach engine in the new
IE7 internet search box. If anyone has a solution to this let me know!

Graham
Penzance

"Graham Easterling" wrote in message
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IE7 does have tabs, in fact I'm using them now, and is significantly
different to IE6. It's worth looking at some reviews
(http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/ie7.asp being one). It has copied
a lot from Firefox, I'm not saying it's better, but it's a lot closer.

Also, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6086798.stm

Jon.

In uk.sci.weather on Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Graham Easterling
wrote :

IE7 does have tabs, in fact I'm using them now, and is significantly
different to IE6. It's worth looking at some reviews
(http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/ie7.asp being one). It has copied
a lot from Firefox, I'm not saying it's better, but it's a lot closer.

There are some niggles. If you have the Google toolbar installed, you
can't seem to prevent Google being the deault seach engine in the new
IE7 internet search box. If anyone has a solution to this let me know!

I have Google as my default page, anyway.
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Graham Easterling wrote:
After reading through the long thread that Martin started, it became
obvious that Firefox was largely being compared to IE6.

IE7 does have tabs, in fact I'm using them now, and is significantly
different to IE6. It's worth looking at some reviews
(http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/ie7.asp being one). It has copied
a lot from Firefox, I'm not saying it's better, but it's a lot closer.

There are some niggles. If you have the Google toolbar installed, you
can't seem to prevent Google being the deault seach engine in the new
IE7 internet search box. If anyone has a solution to this let me know!

Graham
Penzance

Just changed from IE7 to Firefox 2.0. Very, very happy with Firefox. First
time we have tried a new browser after an awful time with IE7. Now we know
how tabs are supposed to work! They didn't in IE7, nor did a lot of page
formatting (teletext holidays drop down menus didn't work in IE7 but are
fine in FF2.0)

Sticking with our new discovery of Firefox....

Les


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"Graham Easterling" wrote in message
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After reading through the long thread that Martin started, it became
obvious that Firefox was largely being compared to IE6.

IE7 does have tabs, in fact I'm using them now, and is significantly
different to IE6. It's worth looking at some reviews
(http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/ie7.asp being one). It has copied
a lot from Firefox, I'm not saying it's better, but it's a lot closer.

There are some niggles. If you have the Google toolbar installed, you
can't seem to prevent Google being the deault seach engine in the new
IE7 internet search box. If anyone has a solution to this let me know!

Graham
Penzance

Just go to tools - internet options and type in the new url into the
homepage window.

Buzz wrote:


There are some niggles. If you have the Google toolbar installed, you
can't seem to prevent Google being the deault seach engine in the new
IE7 internet search box. If anyone has a solution to this let me know!


Just go to tools - internet options and type in the new url into the
homepage window.

Thanks, that works, but it seems strange that with IE7 & the Google
toolbar I end up with 2 searchboxes (the Google toolbar seachbox & the
IE7 search box) but I cannot make them use different search engines.

I'm just being lazy really, as I've got all the major search engines in
a folder under favourites.

Graham

Jon O'Rourke wrote:

"Graham Easterling" wrote in message
oups.com...

IE7 does have tabs, in fact I'm using them now, and is significantly
different to IE6. It's worth looking at some reviews
(http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/ie7.asp being one). It has copied
a lot from Firefox, I'm not saying it's better, but it's a lot closer.

Also, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6086798.stm

Jon.

I think that's a pretty good review.

Graham
Penzance

Les Hemmings wrote:

Sticking with our new discovery of Firefox....


Well done Les you know it makes sense.

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http://www.meroffice.com

Graham Easterling wrote:

Buzz wrote:


There are some niggles. If you have the Google toolbar installed, you
can't seem to prevent Google being the default search engine in the new
IE7 Internet search box. If anyone has a solution to this let me know!


Just go to tools - internet options and type in the new URL into the
homepage window.

Thanks, that works, but it seems strange that with IE7 & the Google
toolbar I end up with 2 search boxes (the Google toolbar search box & the
IE7 search box) but I cannot make them use different search engines.

I'm just being lazy really, as I've got all the major search engines in
a folder under favourites.

I have been using it for the last hour or two for the first time since
FireFox 8 or so. The choice of search engines is infinite. If a site
has a search engine you can add it to the box on the top right on the
top toolbar.

Just type TEST (in caps) into the new website's search engine and copy
the URL it goes to. Click that in the drop down that allows you to add
the new search engine.

I think it is a brilliant device and am very happy with IE 7 because I
am stuck with settings in FireFox that I messed up several versions ago
and can not be removed even with an uninstall.

I prefer the idea of FireFox and prefer Opera even more as it has the
stuff I want as standard but again I have no way of returning the
settings to its original default without going into the registry.

Bloody stupid profiles!

Needless to say of course the damn thing will not function fully with
MSN's own communities. What else did I expect with that?

Weatherlawyer wrote:

I prefer the idea of FireFox and prefer Opera even more as it has the
stuff I want as standard but again I have no way of returning the
settings to its original default without going into the registry.

Bloody stupid profiles!

I went through the files on my PC looking for eveything with the word
Profile in it and got rid of a lot of folders wit that title now Opera
is working great but it has no spell check and I had got used to that
in FFx.

IE has a good one but not as god IMO as Mozila's.

Now I just have to reinstall Firefox and find all the settings are
defaulted, to make my day. Three bloody great browsers to play with in
less than 12 hours.

By the way there is a great tool that replaces the hard disk as a store
for temp files. It is called Sandboxie. If you are using IE it will be
an asset I am sure not that I have been able to use it yet of course.