Google Releases Customized IE 7

narramissic writes "Google has released a customized version of Internet Explorer 7 that uses Google as the default search engine and provides users with the Google Toolbar and a Google homepage they can personalize. Perhaps not exactly what Microsoft intended when they released the Internet Explorer Administration Kit, which allows developers to customize IE."

Comments

They're not the first, are they?

[JeremyBanks]

Isn't this what Yahoo already did?

Re:They're not the first, are they?

[Chrismith]

Not only did Yahoo do this first, but when Google first released their version, they blatantly ripped off Yahoo's page.

If you look closely at the pictures, you can even see where they blurred out the "Y!" logo in the IE7 screenshot.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Google supporter, but someone dropped the ball on this. (It's since been fixed.)

Re:They're not the first, are they?

[Simon Donkers]

Google noticed the fuss everywhere and has since then changed the page. A very interesting post about this is made by Matt Cutts (Google employee) on his private blog explaining how annoying it is if somebody steals your layout. Very interesting read.
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ie7-promo-page/

Re:They're not the first, are they?

[gbjbaanb]

Yes, I was really pissed off that the time-honoured menu bar was removed for the sake of it. MS seems to be moving away from menus. Anyway, the good old menu can be restored - but once you do, you'll see its always underneath the toolbar (sigh). Fortunately, this registry key will put it back init s rightful position: "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser " set the value "ITBar7Position" to a dwrord 1 and its back as you'd want it.

To turn the menu bar on in the first place - go to the tools menu/button and select 'menu bar'

(or put this in notepad, save as a reg file and then click it)

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser]
"ITBar7Position"=dword:00000001

Re:Activation?

[Arctic Dragon]

My IE7 Program File directory is 2.57MB, but since installing it required two reboots, I imagine that additional files are scattered all over the place.

A couple of months ago, I did some quick testing to see which browser uses the most RAM. I checked the RAM usage right after starting the browser with a blank page, and again after opening a total of 3 tabs (of course, YMMV):

Mozilla Firefox 2.0 (default theme, no extensions)
blank page: 20MB
3 open tabs: 31MB

Mozilla Firefox trunk build (default theme, no extensions)
blank page: 20MB
3 open tabs: 30MB

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1A
blank page: 17MB
3 open tabs: 28MB

K-Meleon 1.02
blank page: 15MB
3 open tabs: 24MB

Internet Explorer 6.0SP2
blank page: 11MB

Internet Explorer 7.0
blank page: 17MB
3 open tabs: 35MB

Opera 9.02
blank page: 14MB
3 open tabs: 24MB