So I installed the IE 7 Beta.
I don’t use Internet Explorer for anything more than Windows Updates, since Firefox is your god and mine. I’d toyed with Opera and other “alternative” browsers for months before Firefox hit the scene, and with its lack of security holes, tabbed browsing and easy integrated search bar, I finally had my replacement for IE.
Still, no web designer worth his salt in salt doesn’t test in IE. This would be a crime. So there in my quick launch bar sits IE, present but unused.
The Ruins move Certainly with IE 7 in beta I would want to play around with it. So I downloaded it. It’s cute, a tad better looking than its predecessor, even if the tabbed browsing is ungainly, not nearly as integrated as well as in Firefox. All in all, a nice replacement for IE 6, but hardly anything that could steer me away from Firefox and its legion of extensions.
Then I started up Trillian, my instant messaging client that supports AIM, MSN and Yahoo! It loaded, then crashed, a victim of a changed .dll file that supports IE’s connection to MSN. It seems you can’t run Trillian on the same system as IE 7.
Sacrifice full movie So I uninstalled the IE 7 Beta.