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Anyone is using IE7? How do you like it? Any issues with upgrading?
I heard mixed reviews about it and would like to hear from you. Does it have the same security strength as FireFox? I hope so, but, I guess that remains to be seen.
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I've been using IE7 since beta 1, and it's come a long way. I like the tabbed browsing of course (not quite a slick as FireFox), but most of all I like the change to the way any executing code is handled.
In IE6, if you visited a malicious website and code got through the "sandbox", it could mean disaster if you're logged into the machine as an administrative user because that code executes with the privs of the user that's logged in - ack!
However in IE7, they've implemented the logic that applies to Vista as a whole - everything executes with lowest permissions. So if you're logged into XP as admin, visit that same malicious website in IE7, that code (if it makes it through all of the new defenses) would execute with the systems minimum privs, with little to no risk of damage or leaking sensitive information.
A nice change and a compelling reason to upgrade - especially now that it's been out for a while!
