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A Question of Installation

Just a quick question to pose to the masses:  why is it that Firefox 2.0 takes no more than 2 minutes to install, yet Internet Explorer 7.0 takes about 15 minutes?

Makes me wonder what core DLLs IE is replacing in my system.

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Published Monday, October 30, 2006 9:49 AM by Rob Garrett

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Anton Vishnyak said:

You are lucky. I am running Vista RC2 and IE no longer even starts up on my machine.
October 30, 2006 1:28 PM
 

Sahil Malik said:

Clearly, IE7 is doing a more thorough job.
October 30, 2006 5:08 PM
 

Rob Garrett said:

Yeah, a "thorough job" of rewriting half of my operating system by the looks of it.

October 31, 2006 9:23 AM

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