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The bad news: It uses almost as much memory as Firefox, which is to say "a lot."
Those are just a couple of quick observations after downloading and installing the latest browser from Microsoft. Its delivery of tabbed browsing to the market is late, but the company tries to make up for it by offering a few goodies that Firefox doesn't.
First off: In addition to browser tabs, Internet Explorer 7 offers a special tab that allows you to view every other tab, at the same time, on one page. If you ever have the need to keep open dozen tabs during the course of a work day, it makes it easier to keep track of what you're doing.
IE 7 does, though, use almost as much bandwidth as Firefox - which can slow your system down especially if you're running multimedia.
Microsoft's latest browser offering also provides defenses against phishing, which has prompted some discussions about whether it protects users' privacy.
Writes Rob Franco of Microsoft:
To prove that the Phishing Filter protects privacy, we asked Jefferson Wells, a well known technology audit firm, to take a look at our design. We gave them in-depth access to the technology and to the engineering team. After they studied the technology and interviewed the engineering team, they agreed that the claims we made about protecting your privacy are true and accurate.
You can read the results of the Jefferson Wells Audit yourself to learn more.
A PDF of the report, which you can read here, concludes that the Microsoft Phishing Filter in Internet Explorer transmits no "personally identifiable information."
A quick roundup of reaction so far:
This is a long-overdue move on Microsoft's part, as Internet Explorer 6 has proved to be vulnerable to spyware and other security issues.
But the thing is IE7 still remains extremely unstable to the date. I tried opening a variety of sites using both IE7 and firefox. For any given website firefox presented the graphics better than what IE7 did. And for those at microsoft who claim that their system is stable here's something for you to think about. Anything typed in the searchbox of yahoo or google toolbar on IE7 resulted in the termination of IE7 program. In other words if you type anything in the search box of yahoo or google toolbar on IE7 and press enter , the internet explorer window will close. Now the people at microsoft will probably explain this by saying that we are still in Beta. However the problem I mentioned above reflects a really lousy work from the IE7 team. So you can strike out stability from IE7's feature list.
Well, on this end, it must be noted that the IE7 beta was able to use the Google and Yahoo tool bars without crashing...
Microsoft also provides additional 1-button subscriptions to RSS feeds, directly from the browser - another feature that Firefox has had for some time.
The blog Itchy Hands finds problems with some of IE7's RSS functionality, though.
And Wildlife Marketing Group blogs:
We've been using the beta version of IE7 here for a while, and while it offers a lot of features that none of the other browsers out there offer, the current beta does not live up to the reputation that Microsoft execs have built up for it - especially in terms of it's utilization of RSS. The new browser has made up for a lot of previous shortcomings, but I'm a bit disappointed in the way that RSS ended up being implemented. It seems to be more of an afterthought than anything.
So, additional good news for Microsoft is that it still gets lots and lots of feedback when it issues a public beta. That, also, is the bad news.
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