A Week With IE7
Monday October 23rd, 2006Customising
The major let down with IE7 is that its customisability is worse than with IE6. If you install toolbars you're limited to where they can be placed and without a registry hack it's not possible to place the menu bar at the top of the window where it should be.It should be possible to remove buttons from in interface that's not needed to free up some space. You should be able to move buttons from the tab bar to the address bar. By default IE7 should have looked like a native Windows XP application rather than a port from Vista but should have allowed enough customisability for people who wanted it to look like it does currently to do so. I suspect a lot of novice computer users will be totally lost when this radically different interface lands on their desktop when it's pushed through Windows update.
A good site for customising IE is enhanceie.com and is worth a visit whether you use IE as your primary browser or just for the occaisional site that does not work with your browser of choice.