I still like IE

Ok guys, don't hit me. I did try Firefox and I don't like it so much as IE. Especially IE7 Beta 2 is awesome and is going to give FF some ass-whipping. Before all the FF folks shoot me down, can I be given a chance to explain why my experience was otherwise good with FF other than the fact that I will not replace it with IE?

Here are some of the quirks I found with FF (latest version and no fancy add-ons) and I'm comparing it with IE7 Beta 2 from Microsoft:

[1] The "New Tab" button that appears just below the Back button is not positioned correctly. The tabs open from left to right and the new tab button is located on the extreme left. I have to go all the way to the left and then click on the button and then traverse to the extreme right (I have lots of tabs open) and then start browsing in that tab

[2] Each tab needs to have a close button associated with it. The "close" button cannot be universally sitting in the extreme right. Agreed it is context sensitive to the tab open but still I had to move my mouse around a lot to create/browse/close tabs. If I add some fancy add-on then FF has the close buttons for each tab. What a bore - how would anyone know that there is an add-on like that?

[3] Showing download manager by default sucks big time - I have to go and disable it from the options menu. Why can't it be disabled by default and then if users want it, they can enable it

[4] There is no thumbnail snapshot of all my open tabs as in IE7. This is really good if there are many tabs open and that it is not possible to read the title of each and traverse

[5] In IE7 I have a nice feature for bookmarks/favorites -> I can either dock the favorites or leave it floating and IE takes it off once until I select a site. In FF it is always docked by default

[6] So what if FF has a drag and drop customization of toolbar items? I still need to be able to resize the entire toolbar either to the left or right by dragging it like in IE. If I were to add all the items then my toolbar is cluttered and my address bar gets shortened in length. I cannot even put the address bar below to enter long website addresses. Why is the address bar locked?

[7] I usually listen to lot of audio online. I could not get FF to play music from www.musicindiaonline.com. It just refuses to play. From IE, everything is a breeze. This may be a localized issue but still this is a needed fix if I have to continue using FF

[8] How to get the "Go" button to disappear?

[9] The most annoying thing in FF is the incapableness of FF's Find to search within text boxes in a browser. Ok, I have a form with a text box and some text. I hit F3 to start searching for some string - the damn thing cannot go into a text box and search for that text even if my context is within that text box. How saddening? IE can search in text boxes just fine

[10] There is no inline autocomplete. I have to use the down arrow keys to select whatever choices show up there in the address bar

The list will build if I continue using it. I'm forced to use it for one reason - somehow Google's blogger works a little better on FF than IE for images. So sometimes I have to blog off from FF. Other than that, IE7, I love you. Everything in IE7 is very intuitive. Things are there, where the eyes and hands go for, not somewhere at the extreme ends. I rest my case - Can I be excused, please?

Thanks!