Internet Explorer 7 annoyances

I noticed today that Internet Explorer v7 showed up as a critical download (according to Microsoft). Since I like to experiment (I know... it's wrong), I decided to give it a try. What can happen? I use Firefox as the default browser.

I played with IE7 in Vista RC2, and seemed (!!!!!) to work fine. After installing it, I might have lost all my bookmarks, or perhaps I didn't have any to start with in IE6 :) . Anyway, that's something to remember when I upgrade IE on my laptop from work.
Here are some annoyances I ran into:

• Clearview
  Lame ass anti-aliasing. I thought I had some sort of eye-disorder. (can eventually be switched of in the advanced options, and it needs a restart of the browser).


• Anti-phising
  More pop-ups asking stupid questions... Somehow it wanted to check my own website against a phishing list.... disabled it immediately.


• Flickr bagde
  Can't get it to work in IE7. Not even if I remove all security restrictions. So if you don't see any pictures in my flickr badge, it means you're using a fucked-up browser.
  Solved: I needed to install the Flash player component AGAIN especially for IE7 (/me wonders why IE7 doesn't mention that it doesn't have the necessary components to view the page correctly)


• Menu bar
  Is disabled by default, and if you enable it, it's not at the top of your window (???)


• ....

Strangely enough, WordPress seems to work fine, since I'm using IE7 to write this post. (correction: when I wanted to submit this post, there was an error on page according to IE7....)

Well, back to good-old Firefox 2.0, and leave all the IE7 annoyances behind me :D.

Conclusion: Microsoft created a great (visual) copy of Firefox. Too bad that they had the urge to add bugs and annoyances to it. I can hardly wait for Vista and the new Office suite :)