DamonHD - 7:55 pm on Sep 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hi walkman,

M$ code in general, and IE(7) in particular, is *much* better than it used to be from a security and programming point of view, to the point that I'd just about now consider a critical (headless) server on Windows XP (somewhat behind Linux and whay behinf Solaris). And M$ really does now seem to understand that security is not an optional item (not that it ever should have been).

But IE's still pretty horrible inside, Intel notwithstanding. B^> One of my developers goes half mad trying to get consistent reliable (documented) behaviour out of IE. And indeed, we abandonned a product line because it was so hard.

So, while FF is not perfect, I end up using it much more than IE7 (beta 2).

For the record, I gave up on Opera a couple of years ago when it suddenly became less reliable than either FF or IE, so I'm not just anti-M$ FWIW!

Rgds

Damon

PS. Yes, I've had to kill FF several times recently for 100% CPU usage, and I hope that that little horror has gone away with this version.