I'm not seeing the menu speed or taskbar issues on my machine, but I am pretty disappointed in the look & feel of IE7. (Hadn't used it before)
Particularly how they hid the standard file/edit/view menu by default, and even after you reenable it you can't actually have it show up at the TOP of the window above the addressbar where it ought to be.
Also the implementations of the tabs -- it shares the same line as most of the menu options, which cannot be moved to another vertical position (it would make more sense to me to have these next to the address box or on their own toolbar, rather than taking up valueable tab-space. Especially since the tabs don't automatically roll over onto a next line if there are too many open to show at the same time.
I do like the overview screen where you can get a miniature representation of the page on each tab, and the printing system is vastly approved. The GUI, however, it a big mess in my book. Gotta love how MS keeps radically redesigning their look & feel so drastically every couple of years, yet at the same time keep hammering 3rd party developers about consistency in their design guidelines. I'll stick with Avant Browser myself, at least it got the GUI right. :-?
Particularly how they hid the standard file/edit/view menu by default, and even after you reenable it you can't actually have it show up at the TOP of the window above the addressbar where it ought to be.
Also the implementations of the tabs -- it shares the same line as most of the menu options, which cannot be moved to another vertical position (it would make more sense to me to have these next to the address box or on their own toolbar, rather than taking up valueable tab-space. Especially since the tabs don't automatically roll over onto a next line if there are too many open to show at the same time.
I do like the overview screen where you can get a miniature representation of the page on each tab, and the printing system is vastly approved. The GUI, however, it a big mess in my book. Gotta love how MS keeps radically redesigning their look & feel so drastically every couple of years, yet at the same time keep hammering 3rd party developers about consistency in their design guidelines. I'll stick with Avant Browser myself, at least it got the GUI right. :-?