(First of all, I'm French-speaking Canadian so I apologize if my English
isn't as good as I'd wish.) I have tried the final version of IE7 (English)
on a Canadian French XP Pro SP2.

1. WINDOWS Explorer and INTERNET Explorer are no longer able of internally
morphing themselves into each other. Everytime I type an URL in a Windows
Explorer, a new Internet Explorer opens instead of using the same Explorer
window.

2. Talking about #1 above, when I type an URL in the address bar of a
WINDOWS Explorer (or if I choose a Favorite from the Favorites menu), it does
open not one, but TWO Internet Explorer windows on that URL. This is a bug. I
noticed that it does not happen every time but I could not find any pattern.
Anyway, this should have been fixed BEFORE the final release. How come nobody
at Microsoft ever noticed that bug since the time they're working on IE7?

3. The search box is now included on the toolbar without a way to remove it
(as far as I know). So if I want to keep using my Google Toolbar, I have
Windows' search bar cluttering my interface.

4. The Menu bar, when showed, should NOT be UNDER the address bar. This is
in total contradiction with the interface standards we use to know since
years (menu bar first, then toolbars and address bar).

5. I hate the new Back/Next navigation buttons. I used sometimes to
right-click in order to choose which page I wanted to go back to. It's now
impossible, as long as right-clicking the Back and Next buttons just shows
the System Menu. Instead, I have to click on the little arrow at the right of
these buttons. However, this shows both previous and next pages in the same
list so I must take a little more time to find out the page I want to go to.

6. The code that manages the scroll button on the mouse seems to have been
reprogrammed to allow a click on that button to launch links in new windows,
like Firefox does (by the way, IMHO it was useless to do that, I'm already
used to Shift+click to do that). However, it does not work as before. When I
click that button and let the text scroll, with IE6 and prior, the scrolling
stopped as soon as I scrolled the button. Now, the page sometimes doesn't
stop scrolling, unless I physically move the mouse. This is a trivial bug,
you'll say... but I am used to a NORMAL and STANDARD behavior of the mouse
scroll button and it is now messed in IE7.

7. I sometimes use to drag a link on the address bar when I want to open a
link in that same browser window (for example, when I know that a link would
otherwise open in a new window). With IE7, strangely, this works almost
everywhere in the interface EXCEPT on the address bar. It works if I drag a
link on the title bar, it works too on the toolbar, but on the address bar, I
get a forbidden sign.

8. Before, it was possible to drag'n'drop a link on the Startup page button
in order to setup a new startup page. This doesn't work anymore with IE7.

All these reasons make me continue using IE6 SP2 as long as it won't be
unsupported. I really hate IE7. Really a shame that IE7 still has these
caveats as a final version. :(

Note to Microsoft's staff: If you ever mind fixing these things in a Service
Pack or something, then I'll be glad to use IE7.