It isn't that they will not make it more customizable, it is that they
actually don't have the knowledge to know how to do it.  

They would make it a good as Opera and Firefox, but they simply don't
have the technological expertise within their company to accomplish
this goal.  No one wants to have a sub-par browser on purpose.

Altie

I just wanted to second MuadDib's comments.  The toolbar management
definitely took a step backwards with IE7.  Although I'm not as concerned
about the real-estate on the top toolbar there definitely needs to be a
"save-state" for the toolbars when you re-arrange them.

I have to agree.  IE6 gave me the toolbar location flexibility I wanted, and
IE7 is many steps backwards.  I have uninstalled IE7 and will not return
until this is fixed.

Why give the user less flexibility?

The toolbars must be made customizable! When I installed IE7 a button called
"Adobe PDF" showed up between the adress bar and the tabs. It was completely
alone on that line, hence it used a lot of space. I wanted to move this
button (which is to create PDFs from web pages) next to one of the other
buttons (Home, RSS,...). Nope. That was not possible. So either the button
needs a whole toolbar from the left to the right side of the screen, or I
must remove it by right-clicking the toolbars and uncheck it to hide the
whole bar. Not good.

I tried to show the good, old Menu bar, and then I actually was able to put
the Adobe PDF button next to and below the row of text (File, Edit,... ) on
the same toolbar as these. But why would I want to put it there?

So I tried to move it around some more, and the last time I let go of the
left mouse button while "holding" the "Adobe PDF" button, it simply
disappeared. The whole toolbar whith this lone button was completely gone. I
tried to right click the toolbar area again, and even though I tried to check
the Adobe PDF toolbar, nothing happened, and it unchecked itself! It feels
almost like someone is having fun with me, but I'm not laughing.

I also would like to move the toolbar of buttons (Home, RSS, Print,...) to
the left side of the screen (where the Menu bar's default location is when it
is visible), and I was willing to accept try using IE7 without the Menu bar
(maybe I don't need it). No, I am not allowed to do that. Why not??

I would also like the adress line to be shorter and movable. It takes up too
much space (and I don't need to read website adresses longer than what my
mind can remember anyway). If I ever need to edit a long adress, I can use
the arrow keys on my keyboard.

The Favourites has the ability to dock to the left side of the screen. I
click the green arrow and it docks nicely. And yes, please, I would like it
to be like that every time. I close the Favourites and later open it again.
Hey! It is undocked again, floating above the web page! Why? I think Opera
has a great solution here.

Hey, just a small comment more: When I click the favourites while writing
here, the cursor jumps from _HERE_ to the top of this window where I enter
the text, so that I have to scroll back down here to continue writing...
Thank you for yet another annoying bug! I have found more bugs too, but they
do not belong to the toolbar category of problems.

I think I will go back to Opera while I wait for the next version of IE to
be released.

- Blackbird

I agree and am switching back to IE6.

I agree with you wholeheartedly.  I recently got a new laptop with Vista and
IE7 and I feel like I've returned to the laptops of the early 90s.  I hate
MICROSOFT!  I'm no technical wizard which is what makes this even more
frustrating.  There is no help available, and the answers I read in here
sound like they come from the computer-geeks-from-hell department.  This will
be my last pc ever.  But, not being rich, I'm wondering how I can switch to
Firefox?  Does that mean I can't use Outlook Express for calendaring, mail,
etc.?