I am running Firefox on a Vista machine with no problem. In fact it can run
alongside IE7 and I have had both open at the same time. It takes just a few
minutes to download and get started. https://addons.mozilla.org/

You could look for a update on Microsoft's site but if you do you must use
IE7 to do it - they won't do it through Firefox. This is a chicken and egg
situation

"Silvabod" wrote:

> My brand-new Acer Aspire M5100 pc, 2 gig RAM, pre-installed Vista Home
> Premium had a fatal crash, so a complete disk format/reinstall from the
> hidden disk partition via Acer's "Empowering Technology" was done. I have no
> OS disk.
>
> Then, I uninstalled the bundled demo progs (Office 2007, Norton, etc) and
> did full updates. My AV is AVG 7.5 (not 8, which is documented as giving
> problems).
>
> Despite all this, IE7 continues to be "flaky", has never run correctly.
> (before and after SP1).
>
> I have 2 meg rated cable, yet downloads (from any source, incl MS) are
> continually hanging, to the point where memories of dial-up come to haunt
> me. Tests on PCPitstop report download/upload within a few % of ISP's
> claims (1.83mb down, 186 kb up being the norm). A "definitions" download of
> 1.2mb took nearly 4 minutes, and the 66mb Vista SP1 took half an hour.
>
> Further - IE7 totally crashes when trying to print a web page. Fault report
> says it's with mshtml.dll, but the only MSN site report I found on this is
> one I read for 10 minutes before realising it was for XP and earlier, not
> Vista. IE7's "online search for solution" does nothing except delay the
> restart of itself.
>
> I'm not a novice - my "old" pc is still running the original installation of
> XP with few problems and no crashes (and I date back to the dark ages of
> Win3.1 in maintaining home pc's for the family).
>
> Rather than waste a further 3 days on another new installation, updates,
> drivers etc ... can I just install IE7 as a "clean" install. Is this
> possible? if so, where is the source file?
>
> If not, will Vista allow a non-MS browser to replace it, without creating
> yet more problems?
>
> I