Chrome is laggy.  It has been getting worse and I can no longer tolerate it.  I will return to using chrome when these issues are addressed.
The scroll is laggy, the url entry is laggy.

Basically this is how it goes.  I’m the use, i don’t wait.  The computer works around my usage.  If I want to type into the url bar, give the url bar 99% of the cpu time so that i get full responsiveness around what i’m doing.  If there are old actions running, pause that and serve my needs right now.

This goes for scrolling too, if i move the scroll bar, stop processing everything pause all activity and move the page.  Show me blank if it’s blank, show me half loaded images, show me rendering errors, show me anything.  Just make sure the the page moves around when i try to scroll the page.

I’m really looking forward to these issues being resolved.
Regards
Chrome fanboy

However, I did check, you can indeed disable “access to” IE in Windows 7, but that doesn’t remove it from the computer. I went to “Set program access and computer defaults” and unchecked the box that says, “Enable access to this program.” This removed it from my desktop and start menu’s. I then looked in Program Files, it was still in there and I could launch it. So not REALLY removed, but a handy little tool to hide it from clients! I’ll do that and also add the IE icon to Firefox to trick them.

It’s not that Firefox is necessarily more secure, because I can’t give evidence to support that, but I can say, when my clients use that instead of IE, they have way less problems and bugs.

In your situation, your kind of stuck. You have to use sites that require you to use IE. Personally, I dislike IE so much, I just don’t use software that require me to use IE. I am not anti-MS, just anti-IE. :)

For internet explorer, you can possibly press WIN+R and type in regsvr32.dll or something like that, and it will reload the dll file for explorer. This was explained by Ed Bott on how to solve corruption with adobe flash activeX.

As for me, I use Chrome and Internet Explorer. I find Chrome perfect when I want some casual browsing necessary. I find Internet Explorer necessary purely for the various addons and tasks that only internet explorer can accomplish. Some of these include the onenote addon and other productivity ones. I also find it frustrating that Chrome doesn’t give you an easy way to see what addons are being loaded and a quick way to disable them.

As for firefox, I always believe that firefox is kind of in between. It is like Internet Explorer with the speed. It accomplishes neither productivity nor speed perfectly, as having two browsers that are more optimized for such tasks.