CNET is serving up perhaps the stupidest PC software review ever written, a comparison of IE7 and Firefox 2.
It encompasses just about every eye-rolling, groan-inducing, focus-on-the-trivial, big-picture-missing flaw I’ve ever seen in the PC review format. The comments from the three “judges” reflect a depth of analysis that is measured in submicron thicknesses. And I give the whole piece extra lameness points for the cringe-worthy prizefight metaphor, which was tired when I first read it in a comparison of IE5 and Netscape back in 19-frickin-99.
Follow the link if you must, but only if you first swear a solemn oath not to blame me when you get to the end and say, “My God, that was a colossal waste of time.”
(Full disclosure: I write for ZDNet, which is a subsidiary of CNET. But thankfully, I had nothing to do with this mess.)
… On the plus side, at least it’s short.
I was pleasantly surprised with IE7 to find that it supported some of my favorite features of tabbed browsing from Firefox.
Middle-Clicking on a link automatically opens it in a new tab loading behind the current one. I find this very useful when browsing through search results
Middle-Clicking on a tab label closes the tab.
These hints work with IE7 and FF (with options set appropriately).