New IE and FTP

Bill Thompson

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Have you tried the new Microsoft Browser? It seems to handle FTP differently. I upgraded my browser and now I wish I hadn't because it does things differently.

 
IE 7 is horrible. It's very buggy. The text on my screen is now a bit blurry (you have to install a plug-in and do some other things in order to fix it). And then when I scroll using the click wheel, the browser keeps scrolling even when I stop! Even the tab design is bad. It's not as intuitive as Firefox.
They shouldn't have changed the layout of IE 7. They should have kept the old layout of IE 6.
It sucks totally! I'm so mad.
That's why I'm sticking with Firefox!
 
Have you tried the new Microsoft Browser? It seems to handle FTP differently
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Yes, thats one thing with the new IE7 that pi#$es me off. By default the last version opened everything in windows explorer mode. Now it doesnt & you have to actualy click on "page" & "open in windows explorer".

IE 7 is horrible. It's very buggy.
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Agreed. I upgraded all of my servers I host to the latest IE7 only to be inundated with calls the next day with numerous complaints.

Clients would say . "Pages seem to take longer to load", "some pages wont print properly", "where is my file,edit,tools etc" (you have to actualy add the menu bar now) , "tab browsing starts with blank pages & gives me a stupid message at the start".

The worst was IE7 wouldnt display about 20% of one of my clients websites. I had to install firefox & get them to use that instead until I got the problem resolved.

I made the mistake of getting lazy (& trusting micro$oft) & not thoroughly testing it before rolling it out on mulitple servers. Consequence was. Hours of group policy modifications & general troubleshooting.

Also, the "live search" feature in the top right corner is slower than going to the site (say google) & searching from there. Grrrr.

On the upside, the actual IE7 icon looks fantastic now! :rolleyes:
 
I guess it is not possible to roll back to the earlier version.
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It is. When IE7 first came out I thought of this too. There is a script on the Microsft Technet site I think, than gives you the ability to switch between the two versions.

I cannot find the url at the moment, but if you search Technet you should find it ok.

D2011
 
IE7 has to be the best thing Microsoft has ever done for its competitors. I've been using IE as my first and only browser for as long as it was in the market. Never saw the need to switch until now. I had to give up on IE7 and make the switch to Firefox after it gave me login problems at some of my usual hangouts.

I know quite a few acquaintances making the switch as well. It's easier to install Firefox than trawl through Microsoft's website in search of a fix, if it exists.
 
DiskoVilante said:
IE 7 is horrible. It's very buggy. The text on my screen is now a bit blurry (you have to install a plug-in and do some other things in order to fix it). And then when I scroll using the click wheel, the browser keeps scrolling even when I stop! Even the tab design is bad. It's not as intuitive as Firefox.
They shouldn't have changed the layout of IE 7. They should have kept the old layout of IE 6.
It sucks totally! I'm so mad.
That's why I'm sticking with Firefox!
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I am not super familiar with IE7, but I did upgrade last week and was given the option of using ClearType or not. ClearType is Microsofts antialiasing technology. Antialiasing is great for large text and logos, but not so great for small text depending on the screen and the resolution. Very simply, it is based on a bluring of text in order to keep you from noticing the distinct pixels. On some displays, small text anti-aliased can look great, on others, blurry.

Unfortunatly, I doubt that the option is explained very well, and I cannot remember whether ClearType was enabled by default or not. ClearType is designed especially to make text look better on LCD monitors, therefore if you are a new computer user (what PCs are sold today without LCDs?) you would want it enabled by default, but if you had an older PC (purchased with a CRT and never upgraded), then you would want it not to be enabled. From the looks of it, they have decided that LCD monitors that look better with antialiased fonts are move prevalent and therefore enable it by default.

I don't know how to turn it off, but I am sure that you can somewhere.

I also know nothing of your other problems as I have not used IE7 other than the upgrade process. I have notices that the menu bar is gone, and that could be a little weird.

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Aha, from the horses mouth
 
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Does IE7 still try and create folders as "New Folder"? Because spaces in folder names were verboten on the systems I was posting to. Nothing like having to create a folder locally, then pass it over.

And I'm sticking with FF. I have to use IE7 at work and I have it installed at home so I can use some of the stuff work has on the web, but that's the only reason.
 
D2011 said:
It is. When IE7 first came out I thought of this too. There is a script on the Microsft Technet site I think, than gives you the ability to switch between the two versions.

I cannot find the url at the moment, but if you search Technet you should find it ok.

D2011
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I found IE7 in the Control Panel list of Software to uninstall and I uninstalled it. But it does not do a complete uninstall. I still cannot use FTP.

I poked around technet and I did not find any article.
 
I liked IE until FireFox came out; now I like FireFox. It is, IMHO (and I do this for a living) more secure intrinsically, and it also happens to be easier to use, and easier to configure, and it integrates with far more plugins than IE ever thought of so it has more functionality.

IE7 is a disaster. I installed it on a laptop and it became almost unusable. I have absolutely no sympathy for M$ on this one; they are trying to beat the open source community at their own game, and failing. They brought IE7 out early to try to keep FF from gaining too much market share, and as a result it's buggy; it's also late, as in tabbed browsing was introduced by FF almost two years ago, so this pretty much meets the definition of "a day late and a dollar short."

I'll think about it later, when they've added eight or ten updates and a patch bundle; to give you an idea, I still use Media Center 9 because MC10 started whining about copyrights on files I OWN THE COPYRIGHT TO BECAUSE I RECORDED MYSELF PLAYING. Idiots. What this means is they bowed to the media rights folks and screw all us users; fine, screw ya M$, go Linux.
 
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