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[Kris Deugau]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> I had it on Vista, liked IE7, hated Vista.  I really should get around to 
> downloading it on the XP machines I use, as it's way better than IE6.

I'm not too fond of Vista (I decided to see if Vista's Media Center was 
any smarter than XP's;  evidence to date suggests it's just differently 
stupid), and my brief glimpses of IE7 here and there haven't gained a 
convert on that front either.

It's not that I think it's a bad browser...  (well, I do;  there's no 
way to disable or modify certain behaviours that are Just Wrong Dammit!) 
it's that the interface keeps *changing*, and I've got better things to 
do with my time than continuously relearn how to use the software tools. 
  (The most obvious, trivial misfeature is the menu bar (and the default 
lack thereof - something like Vista's version of Windows Explorer, come 
to think of it) - the menu bar goes **ABOVE** any other bits and pieces, 
not below.)

Netscape and its various children, derivatives, and remerged forks have 
one major point on their side in that respect - both the on-disk profile 
data *and* the visible user interface have not changed significantly 
more than once (and that a *relatively* minor change) since the early 
90s.  What's more, even with some of the UI changes, other people in my 
boat care enough to create a theme/skin to make the UI at least work the 
way it useta.

-kgd