Ordinary Gweilo

Internet Explorer 7 is now available, and will be automatically installed this week if you are not careful. 

They’ve finally added tabbed browsing, but it still seems inferior to SlimBrowser (one of a number of products that use the insides of IE and then make it do useful things).  From my perspective, the tabbed browsing function in SlimBrowser works exactly how I want it to work, and I haven’t yet found a way to make IE 7 do the same.  Also, the tabs in IE are too big and it doesn’t arrange them in rows (yes, I do open a lot of tabs).  Also, they have done a rather weird re-design that has moved the ‘refresh’ button to a less obvious place and hidden away most of the menus.  I think is how Vista will look.  I don’t think I like it.

The other good thing about SlimBrowser is that you can define groups of websites to open with a single click.  You can now do the same thing in IE 7, but in a slightly different way.  Except that there seems to be a bug, because after opening all the sites it then gives up and IE closes.  Even more annoyingly (but unsurprisingly), SlimBrowser now also has the same bug.

So I’m using Firefox instead.