This one I sincerely have to disagree with. On every machine I've put firefox on in a Windows environment I've always found it to open much slower than IE. Once running, though, its always rendered everything slightly faster.
I'm using IE7 at work and just tried to see which opens faster heads up thinking to myself, "Maybe its just my imagination." I clicked ff and then IE and IE beat it by a good second and a half or even two seconds. My work machine isn't terribly fast, but it isn't slow either.
As for new tabs opening slowly, mine open relatively quickly. I'd say not quite instantly like FF, but its a tiny tiny delay.
I do have a few nitpicks on IE7, though. If a page is loading in one tab and I click to go to another or ctrl-tab it seems to hang for a second while it loads the first page. I don't personally enjoy the refresh/stop being moved away from the other navigation buttons...doesn't make much sense to me.
There are a few other things that annoy me but ultimately won't dissuade me from using IE7. Everything else, though, I think MS did right, actually.
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This one I sincerely have to disagree with. On every machine I've put firefox on in a Windows environment I've always found it to open much slower than IE. Once running, though, its always rendered everything slightly faster. I'm using IE7 at work and just tried to see which opens faster heads up thinking to myself, "Maybe its just my imagination." I clicked ff and then IE and IE beat it by a good second and a half or even two seconds. My work machine isn't terribly fast, but it isn't slow either. As for new tabs opening slowly, mine open relatively quickly. I'd say not quite instantly like FF, but its a tiny tiny delay. I do have a few nitpicks on IE7, though. If a page is loading in one tab and I click to go to another or ctrl-tab it seems to hang for a second while it loads the first page. I don't personally enjoy the refresh/stop being moved away from the other navigation buttons...doesn't make much sense to me. There are a few other things that annoy me but ultimately won't dissuade me from using IE7. Everything else, though, I think MS did right, actually.