Thank You, IE7

For improving my internet experience in myriad ways.

By getting me to switch to Firefox.

Let me first say I was perfectly happy with IE6. If there were no IE7, I would have continued using 6 till the end of my days, perfectly content with everything it did for me. Then Yahoo told me I should update to IE7, because it was so much better.

And it was! It had all these great new features that I loved using and made my entire internet experience more useful and fun. Unfortunately, on average, I couldn't take advantage of any three of these features in a row without IE7 crashing on me. As you can imagine, it was quite frustrating.

I considered switching back to IE6, but I was unwilling to part with all these life-changing features. Then, an epiphany: Firefox, which I had used in different environments for a variety of reasons, has all these features, and typically doesn't crash on me 1% as often as IE7 does. And from there, that was it. Here I post from Firefox for the first time, and I'm not even thinking of going back. So once again, thank you, IE7, for improving my internet experience tenfold.

(Truth be told, there are as of yet two things I still prefer about IE7 (well, one about IE7 in particular and one about IE in general). One, in IE7, the option to have multiple tabs open upon start-up is fantastic. I haven't found that in Firefox. Does it exist? And as for IE generally, it integrates with Live365 (an outstanding internet radio site that lately I haven't been without for more than ten minutes at a time) like a dream, playing the stations right through the browser rather than forcing me to open the station links in a dedicated audio program, as Firefox does.)