David Alan Abramczyk said:
Get Mozilla Firefox, like I did, it's much better!
A general dislike, tabbing has to be the most stupid browser innovation I've ever seen, it is the first item I disable upon browser install.
Mozilla Firefox for me has always been slow, and I find the interface clunky. I have it, but use it strickly as a backup and test browser.
Having said that, I'm not too thrilled with IE 7 either, though I still think it better than Mozilla. I preferred IE 6.
As for the UI in IE 7. Well, the two biggest annoyances I currently suffer is the funtionality of the favorites side window (it works different if brought up with Shift-Ctrl-I vs the favorites button on the bar), and the morons who decided it was great to place the back/forward and link bar *above* the menu bar. *And you cannot move it*.
A third minor annoyance in IE 7 that would have been disasterous in IE 6 is the location of the refresh button. It is stupid to place it all the way on the other side of the link bar and away from the forward/back buttons.
Other wise, it is livable, and I've seen only one bug. If you have a window up, and bring up a second window, it comes up, but seems to switch mid stream the active window back to the first one.
EDIT: Another minor issue I forgot, is the difference in the way IE 7 treats URL files (for those not in the know, that is the files IE keeps favorites in). Traditionally, extra stuff tends to build up in them and a user might not even know it. I have a program that can go through and batch edit these URL files and clean them up, removing garbage information, tracking information, icon information, advertizing URL's, and what not, leaving just the minimal information they need to still work correctly. IE 6 was fine with that, but IE 7 refreshes those files every time clicked on, normally adding back in the information. Also updateing date/timestamp info on the files.
The solution is simple, make all the Favorites URL files read only, it prevents the IE 7 update/refresh process form working. I've adjusted my program to make the URL writeable, alter it, then make it read only.