ie6 update to ie7

elchanco

could i ask ye the pro's & con's of updating ie6 to ie7??

I have windows XP home, inspiron mini!

Cheers

EvilMonkey

Why not ie8?

KerranJast

There are no cons. IE6 is an abortion of a browser. If you insist on Microsoft then upgrade to IE7 or 8. Preferably go for Chrome, Firefox or Opera though

Ghost Train

its slightly more secure, has anti phishing features pop up blocker, download warnings

it has tabbed browsing

ie6 might still be a bit faster on a netbook

google chrome or firefox might also be good options

Tillotson

TABS!!!
Welcome to post 2006

KerranJast

Ghost Train wrote: »

its slightly more secure, has anti phishing features pop up blocker, download warnings

it has tabbed browsing

ie6 might still be a bit faster on a netbook

google chrome or firefox might also be good options

IE6 is actually much slower at rendering most new web stuff. Most websites use so much Javascript now that it forces IE6 to a crawl.

leninbenjamin

IE6 is a horrible browser, both in performance, standards compliance and security. At the very least the OP should upgrade to IE8, although you should consider a move to Chromo or Firefox like others have said.

Naikon

ActiveX, the System Administrators friend...

Using Firefox or Chrome or whatever does not make your system any more secure though.
IE's problems run deeper than that. Should be a bit nippier though:D

gav240

why ie???????
firefox or chrome
or at least go for ie8

elchanco

thanks for the feedback..

Im just being lazy sticking with ie6..better the devil u know! I believe ie7 may offer better security.
I dont think ie8 is available to XP, only vista?

I may look into using chrome, seems popular!

cheers again.. im not very technical minded..:rolleyes:

mickoneill30

IE8 is available to XP. IE7 is a lot slower in my opinion.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Internet-explorer/default.aspx

Firefox is more popular than Chrome. No harm trying both anyway.

ecodub

elchanco wrote: »

could i ask ye the pro's & con's of updating ie6 to ie7?? I have windows XP home, inspiron mini!

I was in the same situation with an XP machine running IE6, I finally upgreaded to IE8 10 days ago and it's a big improvement.

Biggins

No one mentioning Opera???
Fastest of the whole lot!

KerranJast

Biggins wrote: »

No one mentioning Opera???
Fastest of the whole lot!

Chrome seems faster tbh. At least for heavy JS based sites it is anyway. Opera does have a raft load of cool features though. If Opera matched the speed of Chromes V8 then I'd switch back in no time.

Biggins

KerranJast wrote: »

Chrome seems faster tbh. At least for heavy JS based sites it is anyway. Opera does have a raft load of cool features though. If Opera matched the speed of Chromes V8 then I'd switch back in no time.

Try the "Turbo" feature?
For some older systems, makes a big difference.

EvilMonkey

Biggins wrote: »

No one mentioning Opera???
Fastest of the whole lot!

I was going by the off topic No Off-Topic Advocacy in the charter otherwise i would defiantly have recommend opera.

OP even if you try Firefox, Chrome, Opera or all of them update to IE8 as well.
Some parts of windows will still use the IE rendering engine and its best to keep browsers up to date, and IE6 needs to go away

mukki

OP always install all of the windows updates

even if you don't use IE

elchanco

cheers lads .. im working on ie7 at the moment..

where do i download chrome?

EvilMonkey

Go on splash out, upgrade to ie8
Here you go http://www.google.com/chrome

elchanco

done