My Insights
Let me start off by saying that Internet Explorer 7 was designed for Windows XP and above. So why the misleading title? Let me explain with a picture-
I work on a Windows 2000 machine at work and am not sure if I should be proud or ashamed of my dependence on IE 7 on Vista thereby rendering me inefficient on IE 6. I don’t know how I ever lived on Internet Explorer 6. Anyways, since Internet Explorer 7 just refuses to install on my Win 2000 machine, I thought what better way to get tab functionality than to try FireFox?
So I downloaded and installed FireFox and I hate the default ‘theme’ that firefox comes with. I don’t know WHY somebody would go to great lengths to make a theme that looks like the FireFox default theme on Vista. Anyways, I remembered reading on digg about a Vista Theme for FireFox and I decided to check it out. For some reason, I couldn’t find a download link for the theme on devianart and I didn’t feel like poking around.
I ended up using the myFireFox theme available on mozilla’s website and the above screenshot is firefox using the myFireFox theme. Amazing isn’t it?
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I love firefox and its tabbing. i don’t think i’ll be going back to IE. Even though ie 7 has it .. .i don’t see myself going back to ie.
Also, if you have programs that aren’t supported in firfox, or your’e a web developer who wants to see how their site looks in IE, you can use the IE plugin to open an IE tab in firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419