brigid | I love you, firefox. (Reply)

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I just tried using IE 7, thinking it might be a workaround for a problem I’m having, and I wanted to tear my hair out.

No matter how I changed the settings, it kept opening links in a new window instead of a new tab. When I told it to accept pop-ups, it refused to open any pop-ups, and I had to tell it to block all pop-ups so it would let pop-ups pop up. Even though I told it to remember log in information, it didn’t. At one point, it was blocking pop-ups even though I had turned off (allegedly) the pop up blocker. Which means I’d click on a link that was supposed to open a pop up window for me to log in to a site, but instead of the pop up popping up there was a “clunk” sound effect and no pop up… and no way to say “Yes, allow this pop up,” because the part of IE that lets you do THAT was turned off.

Also my tool bar was filled with extraneous crap. I don’t use yahoo for ANYTHING, yet there was a giant button right where a back button would have made sense, that I couldn’t easily (in a few seconds) figure out how to get rid of. Urgh.

Firefox is gold compared to that.