IE 7 dealbreaker– RSS feeds
October 30th, 2006 by Doug
I dutifully downloaded IE 7 on official release (I did not fool with a Microsoft Beta product– my IT Manager didn’t raise no dummy), eager to see if IE has caught up to Firefox.
The answer? Sorta. Yes, tabbed browsing is here, several years late. I’m sure the security upgrades are all that (as the young ‘uns say), and of course there is RSS feed support…
But wait… Why are the RSS feeds in a separate window from regular bookmarks, ghettoized from their normal bookmark, er, I mean “favorites,” cousins. One of the great things about Firefox was that the RSS feeds and regular bookmarks are intermingled–exactly the way I surf and read. Maybe this bothers no one else–I haven’t seen this complaint online yet–but it bugs me to distraction.
I’m not going to go into a full-fledged comparison of features (look here and here for the reviews I read), but I am sticking with Firefox unless something amazing happens.
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October 30th, 2006 at 2:07 pm
The separation is definitely horses for courses. The best thing about IE7 is that with separate feeds it is easier and faster to scan what I’m interested in. Firefox is messy, which is why I never used it for feeds.
October 30th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Stuart, “Horses for Courses” (once i looked it up) is right on– I know we have different ways of organizing our feeds– IE7′s setup simply went contrary to how I approach them. If you like to keep RSS feeds and plain ol’ bookmarks separate, then there is no complaint