IE8 on Windows7 has a few annoying quirks. Many of these quirks are resolved with the latest build if IE8, but you can’t install that on Win7, so I’m out of luck (until such time I decide to download/install a later build).
So I’m giving Firefox a whirl on my laptop at home.
I played with Opera 9 for a while at work, and while it was fine for simple browsing, there were way too many annoying things that IE just dealt with (like NTLM authentication, keyboard shortcut completion, filtering of content. Oh and the random lockups) to make me lose interest.
Anyway, I’ve downloaded Firefox 3.0.5 (GB) and set it as the default browser. It’ll be interesting to see if:
- I can adapt to the way it handles tabs and windows]
- any shortcuts inside applications (such as Live Mail) correctly launch FF instead of IE
- I find any sites that worked fine in IE6/IE8/IE8 that either works better or don’t work with FF.