veronica 2 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 I downloaded Internet Explorer 7 recently. That was a mistake - it seems slower than 6, often crashes and I just really don't like it generally. So I want to get rid of it and have IE6 like I had before, but how do I do that? It isn't clear! Can someone help! Thank you. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Go to Control Panels > Add/Remove Programs and IE7 should be lurking in there. Easy removal seems to be about its only reliable feature. (And a big [censored] you vey much to Yahoo for promoting it briefly...) Link to post Share on other sites
veronica 2 Posted December 5, 2006 Author Share Posted December 5, 2006 Aha, yes it is there at the bottom. But will I then be browserless or will it reinstate 6?? I remember it seemed almost impossible to completely get rid of 6. Did you have problems with it too, Ocean11? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 6 will still work OK. It killed my old version of MusicMatch Jukebox. I had to do some headscratching there to figure out why my trusty music software simply wouldn't start. Thank you Microsoft! Thank you Yahoo! (And all I use IE for is looking at Goemon's silly animated GIFs because I have 'em turned off in Firefox...) Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 What is it supposed to do that 6 won't? I just can't get excited over browsers... you just view websites in them right? Am I missing something! Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Ah so thats why Musicmatch doesnt work - I spent a few hours trying to fix that damn thing and ended up uninstalling it. Ill go uninstall IE7 tonight. Evil IE, I hate it more than you can imagine as in my work I am constantly having to write work-arounds to get it to display webpages properly. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 OK that worked, I'm back to 6 now (I have no quabbles with that one) Link to post Share on other sites
keba 0 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 The only advantage is tabbed browsing, as far as I can tell. And if it was that important to you, you would have changes to Firefox years ago. Having said that, IE7 seems to be OK on my PC's so far. I do hate how the address bar is over the menu bar, and can't seem to be shifted from there. Having "File Edit View etc." at the top of the screen seems much more natural... Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 i think they (M$) are shifting that way with a lot of products. I noticed windows media player is like that now (had to use it to replace musicmatch that IE7 killed, starting to see why everyone hates M$ so much now.). Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 rach, what's a quabble? Is it like a really bad quibble with a quarrel and a squabble? And, feel free, let your total lack of browser sophistication just hang right out in these threads. (Hint: You browser is probably the software you use the most, and being able to hide stuff you don't want to see, arranging topics and articles you want to read, and flipping between them with key commands is very nice. That's why folks use Firefox and Opera... For example, I chose to hide your 'ham' avatar because it always made me hungry - you can't do that in IE.) Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 WOWWWWW! (Not convinced) Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 FWIW, I`ve used Opera and Firefox, but find Netscape better than both. Netscape 8.1 is out, and has addressed the instability of v8.0. IE never. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 rach, with Firefox you can also download a plugin that smells of chocolate. Link to post Share on other sites
iiyamadude 6 Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 I have no problems with IE7, quite like it actually. Link to post Share on other sites
veronica 2 Posted December 6, 2006 Author Share Posted December 6, 2006 Any mention of chocolate sounds tempting, but I'm like rach browsers don't do that much for me. Link to post Share on other sites
yoroshiku onegai shimasu 2 Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 I don't like the menu part either. And I don't seem to be able to move the Home and refresh buttons from their rather strange top right area positon. Back to 6. Link to post Share on other sites
Spock's Brain 0 Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Took up Firefox recently and happy I did. Well, as happy as you can get with browser software. It's the logical choice. Link to post Share on other sites
keba 0 Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Unfortunately, backgrading (not downgrading, by the sounds of it) to IE6 is not likely to be an option once Vista hits the stores... Link to post Share on other sites
mina2 6 Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Will they have fixed things up before then? I downloaded it last month and had problems. Kept on crashing being the biggest! Link to post Share on other sites
keba 0 Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Vista is said to be shipping (to Oz, at least) in February. I doubt whether all the potential software conflicts will have been resolved before it's released into the wild. I would hang onto XP and IE6 as long as possible, and hope that some of the bugs get ironed out with patches over the next year or so... Vista SP2, maybe? Will Firefox even run on Vista? Link to post Share on other sites
Bonio 0 Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 I use Firefox. Not only is it very useful for blocking unwanted adverts with the Adblock plugin, it also had Rikaichan, a pop-up Japanese dictionary plugin. I find rikaichan very usefull as it provides a translation on Japanese text merely by scrolling the mouse cursor over it and can handle compound words and the like competently. Sure I should probably work harder at learning the Kanji myself, but untill I'm more capable its a very usefull crutch. Link to post Share on other sites
keba 0 Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 That looks like reason enough to use FF over IE! Link to post Share on other sites
Bonio 0 Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 It's incredibly usefull for following threads like "This years kanji" Link to post Share on other sites
keba 0 Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 My Kanji vocabulary is very limited, unfortunately. I might add Firefox just for the sole purpose of looking up Japanese sites. I may convert yet... Thanks for the tip. Link to post Share on other sites
robert0239 0 Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 Firefox is by far the best in my opinion, not bloated like IE7 or Netscape plus addons are endless Link to post Share on other sites
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