Microsoft postponed the introduction of the next test release of its Internet Explorer 7 Web browser until sometime in 2006, according to comments posted to the company's site for software developers. In a blog posting on the software giant's MSDN developer site, Dean Hachamovitch, product line manager for IE at Microsoft, said that the company will post an "updated pre-release build of IE 7 for Windows XP publicly" during the first calendar quarter of 2006. The IE team leader indicated that people interested in gaining access to the browser preview would not need to be members of the MSDN community. In related news, there's an exploit in Firefox 1.5 on Windows SP2.
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and I can at least enjoy _real_ smooth scrolling.
That's the first time I've seen someone say that the like IE's smooth scrolling. I've always found it made scrolling less accurate/responsive (especially on slow machines) and seems like a poor way to compensate for how jerky the "non-smooth" scrolling is in IE.
That's one thing I've always liked about Opera, even years ago when I was stuck on a P75 laptop at work, it still felt smoother when scrolling pages than IE does.
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Varg, if you want smooth scrolling in Firefox...try this extension, SmoothWheel:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=357&applicatio...
For the "locking up" issue, you probably need to tweak Firefox' GUI settings with FasterFox:
http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/
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2005-07-06
Not that it hasn't served me nice (sometimes), but IE just "feels" better to me. I can't really exaplin, but IE doesn't lock up when loading QT or Flash plugins and I can at least enjoy _real_ smooth scrolling.
I guess this delay is good news for Mozilla people. I don't think they could match IE7 with FF 1.5. Anyway as someone pointed out already, not everyone is happy with today's Gecko browsers and no matter which side you're on, competition is always good so I look forward to IE.