What Internet Explorer do you recommend for Windows 7?

[Baitball Blogger]

I'm strictly Mozilla but have to run a program off of I/E. Since I don't use it, I don't know which one I should download since I see it goes all the way up to 11.

[steve2470]

1. IE9, IE10 is only for Win8 nt

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Thanks.

Appreciate the help.

[Make7]

3. That is incorrect. I'm running IE10 on Win7...

... and IE11 is in beta right now for Win7 and is about to be released through WindowsUpdate.

Microsoft ships tool to block IE11 on Windows 7

All that being said, IE10 is the last full release for Win7.

What I am unclear on is how someone has a Windows machine that doesn't already have IE on it - and how it hasn't automatically updated to latest version for their OS.

[steve2470]

4. ok my bad nt

[Make7]

5. When Win8 first came out it was true that IE10 would only work on Win8.

But they released it for Win7 about half a year after that.

If you have Win8, you probably don't keep track of what is going on with Win7. So I guess you can be forgiven...   this time.

[steve2470]

10. I should have double checked myself, you are definitely the authority on these matters :) nt

[Baitball Blogger]

7. I am strictly a Mozilla Firefox user.

Today was the first time I started IE, except for the time I downloaded Mozilla over a year ago.

[lastlib]

6. None of the Above.

You already have an IE version embedded in your OS. My advice is, don't make a bad situation worse by installing another piece-of-crap browser on top of an existing piece-of-crap browser. Go with what you've got, unless you absolutely can't function without upgrading.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. I was only concerned about upgrades that would help prevent known bugs

...if any.

[mythology]

11. That's not a good idea

If somebody still has IE6 installed, they should definitely upgrade. I can see not upgrading right when a new version comes out, but to not update software is a bad idea for security. There are too many vulnerabilities on older, unpatched browsers.

Yes IE isn't a great browser, but a newer, more secure version is better than an older, less secure version.

[hobbit709]

12. No problem if you don't use it.

My firewall is set to block anything trying to go through Internet ExploDer.

[ManiacJoe]

9. Check what version you already have with the OS.

If it is less than version 9, upgrade to 9.
IE10 is nice but the new security features can cause compatibility issues at times. And it does not always play nice with Flickr.