The new Internet Explorer 8 is OK, so far. Lots of slick features, mostly in security. I like the colour grouping too for pages from the same source page. Crank up Google and right click a bunch of sites in new tabs and they show up in one colour. Do the same with a links page list and they show in another. Then you can close the whole group's tabs. Some neat stuff under the hood.
I stick with Mozilla Firefox. No regrets about leaving Internet Exploder, regardless of what version MS hawks currently.
I'm starting to feel that way about Adobe's Flash control. MS includes a base version in the XP setup, and then Adobe kicks in and installs TWO versions to replace the 'base' version. Then Adobe installs 3 apps to install the PDF reader and another file compression company NOS gets stuffed onto the OS as well. AND then, these hogs all cram themselves into your startup as TSR (terminate and stay resident code) in upper RAM. It's our equipment, and they've proven that their apps can run on-demand (click associated files), why all these extra code hogs to do the same task? And my Canon DIGI-Camera tools need Apple's Quicktime? Can't Apple just make a clean OBJECT/ActiveX control, instead of a 20MB beast? Heck Windows 95 or 98 were less than these add-ons.
