IE7 Aggravation
Microsquish blows it again. If I start to post all the things I hate about IE7 this post will be way too long so I'll just rant about the ONE thing that happens to be annoying me at the moment; IE7's bad HISTORY handling. 
First, the history button (like most of the other most convenient buttons) has gone missing. If you search hard enough you'll discover that the dropdown arrow next to the forward arrow hides your history. (That's right, to find your history, look ahead*). Then, once you display the history, instead of getting the customary list of URLs you've visited, you get a list of every file you've ever opened including all the files on your hard drive! This makes it incredibly inconvenient to review recent URLs. So far, I have not found a way to make this stop (at least not in WinXP). This looks to me like another ham handed attempt by MS to pretend that the browser is part of the operating system in another desperate attempt to force us all to use their brand name software. Instead, it's just another MS failure and one more of the many reasons why I'm going to remain a faithful user of Firefox. My employer requires me to use IE at work, but they can't make me like it (or consider it "good" software).
There, I feel better now!
* This is no more Orwellian than the now familiar clicking of "Start" in order to shutdown.
First, the history button (like most of the other most convenient buttons) has gone missing. If you search hard enough you'll discover that the dropdown arrow next to the forward arrow hides your history. (That's right, to find your history, look ahead*). Then, once you display the history, instead of getting the customary list of URLs you've visited, you get a list of every file you've ever opened including all the files on your hard drive! This makes it incredibly inconvenient to review recent URLs. So far, I have not found a way to make this stop (at least not in WinXP). This looks to me like another ham handed attempt by MS to pretend that the browser is part of the operating system in another desperate attempt to force us all to use their brand name software. Instead, it's just another MS failure and one more of the many reasons why I'm going to remain a faithful user of Firefox. My employer requires me to use IE at work, but they can't make me like it (or consider it "good" software).
There, I feel better now!
* This is no more Orwellian than the now familiar clicking of "Start" in order to shutdown.