Anyone in a corp setting should be using WSUS or Patchlink (we use the latter) or some other means for deploying patches to ensure that full control is exercised over patches (so that patches can be deployed to a test group to ensure against breakage).

In both cases the fault lies with the web-site owners for designing such rubbish sites but that is no help if you need to access them and IE7 does not work when IE6 did. The interesting thing for me is that IE7 is more like FF than IE6 in terms of which sites work and which do not.

There are going to be huge support issues if this is auto-pushed but I still hope they do as it will force all those sites to redesign using standards and therefore implicitly support FF where they didn’t previously. Either that or those sites go out of business.

I was just pointing out that people have the choice to disable *this particular* download by downloading that particular MS patch. Some people might prefer to wait a little while before committing to the upgrade.

TBH I would prefer if MS would release good code that wasn’t so susceptible to security issues in the first place.

I use FF because I do a lot of development and SEO and cant live without the many extensions that I use literally 100’s of times daily. If I *really* need to I just open up IE in a FF tab.

Firebug is the finest extension I’ve seen thus far. It helps me debug just about everything web related. If IE offered me this functionality I would certainly consider moving over. I try to avoid apps that make use of IE’s engine.

I’m quite sure I will install IE7 for cross-browser testing but I doubt whether I will use it that often. Time will tell.

Richard - I’m guessing then that you would prefer if they didn’t supply security updates? I personally was a hardened FF fan and user until I installed IE 7 beta 2 to check out what the IE team had been doing. I have yet found a reason to open up FF again and the beta crashes less than FF did. FF fan or not, IE 7 is a major improvement and more secure than IE 6 so irregardless of whether or not you use IE as your browser you should be installing all IE security patches (IE 7 being considered one) as plenty of apps use IE components internally.

Tom - I’m probably going to be providing that support to family and friends too!!! arrragghhhh!

MS seem to be getting much more forceful the last few years. Customer choice seems to be further and further relegated behind MS preference.

I must say though that I like IE7 so far, the multiple tabs etc.