By now it’s no secret that IE7 breaks a lot of websites.
What some people may not think about is the fact that, because IE is also a core OS library, a lot of apps will also be affected. They may fail, or they may function incorrectly/differently.
I’d like to see this discussion develop into a reference list of IE7 issues and specific incompatibilities so that others can check here to help find, diagnose, anticipate, and prevent problems.
My personal recommendation to all my clients is to stick with Firefox as their primary browser with the IEtab extension and keep a fully patched IE6. I’ve also warned them that MS is sending out IE7 as an update. This is an example of why I recommend most people turn off automatic updates and do weekly manual updates, choosing the ‘custom’ and not ‘express’ option. It’s more work, but unfortunately, necessary.
Please try and keep the discussion constructive.
I’ll start the list.
1) problem: In a Windows XP guest session under VMWare, VMWare Tools fails to run/function when IE7 is installed.
solution/workaround: For now, either revert to IE6.x, or don’t install IE7 in the first place. I’m going to look for other solutions.