Internet Explorer 7 is a cancer. A computer cancer.

Web pages now take forever to load on my computer. Way too often, they just time-out and I have to hit refresh a few times to get a page to load. Once I turned off the automatic phishing filter, the failure rate dropped from 80 percent to about 40 percent. But having web pages fail to load about 40 percent of the time is not good.

I hate Microsoft, but that's only because Microsoft hates its customers.

Firefox is great. I've used it for a couple years now.

Yeah, I use Firefox as well. Faster, less buggy, more secure, and it'll import your IE bookmarks.

Just switch to Firefox.

I'm a Firefox fan, but it doesn't work perfectly with MT either (though it works well enough for my nefarious purposes).

Microsoft puts all sorts of crap into their software because they can. And because their script monkeys have less pre-frontal lobe than what you'd find in the typical two year old dog, they go for stuff that's neato-keen rather than actually useful.

In RPGs this is known as the Kitchen Sink School of Design. Where the designer and his crew put in everything they can think of, and the kitchen sink, with no thought as to why they're including it, what it's purpose is, how it effects other elements in the design, and how it's going to affect the design as a whole.

It's a sign of the lack of design discipline.
A sign of a lack of willingness to exercise restraint. Most likely because the designers were never taught the value of restraint in creativity. The principle that less can have greater results than more, and that less means fewer chances for conflict and disruption.

Until we start teaching our kids the value of discipline and restraint in all walks of life, we will continue to see idiocies like Internet Explorer 7.

Thanks for all but one of the comments and the good advice. I've switched to Firefox for now, and I might try to figure out a way to roll back to IE 6.

John Konop, that long screed about Bush and immigration and economics was not a comment at all, it had nothing to do with this post or any of the comments, and now I see it posted as a post at your website. I consider it borderline spam, so I'm deleting it.

very good, I liked it :)

- Kevin

I have the same problem as Eric! When I update my IE 6 to 7.
The worst thing is that I could not post any message or even put the password in order to access to the next page!
Stop using the IE 7 is the only choice! How can I do that or I have to change to Firefox

Try this:
In IE 7, click on Tools and then Internet Options. Click on the Security tag, and then click the "Custom level..." box. Scroll down to "Scripting"; in "Allow websites to prompt for information using scripted windows", check the "Enable" button. Click OK, click "Yes" in the next window, and finally click OK in the next window.

Let me know if this worked for you.

jlm

Thanks jlm..your suggestion fixed the "stupid script message". It was a real productivity killer. Can you image some poor old 63 year old trying to figure this MS stuff out. I'm glad I'm only 62.

Julian