Internet Explorer 7 Beta

IE7 Beta is available to the public--but only if you use WinXP SP2.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx
And someone has already found a bug.
http://www.betanews.com/article/IE7_Beta_2_Preview_Open_to_DoS_Attack/1138810784

 

welshjim well i got it downloaded it and i like its looks now we shall see how we get along.

 

Thanks for the review Arie. Looks interesting. It's amazing what a little competition will do.

jan
Keep us up to date. I've been waiting for a guinea pig for this.

 

Well, I'm going to wait a while before I give it a try. That said, is there an uninstall option for it? Would like to if and when I give it a try.

 

Juno reports that IE7 Beta will disable Juno.

 

PeteC--

Were you running IE7 on a separate partition? (One of the reasons I ask is to learn how you reverted to IE6.)

 

Have not found the bugs yet

Only been playing for a short time and are yet to find the reported bugs or any new ones. My first impressions are I will like the non-beta version when released

 

Well, all I can say is I'm glad to hear you've had it running Pete. After all, two guinea pigs have to be better than one.

 

so far so good,but i think im scaring it(ie7,known as 7) i didnt know that dr watson did postmortems! most of the reports 7 has sent have been my fault. i really need to know just how many tabs i can have in a block? it can handle 5(magazines) but i tried to get it to block (fed.gov w/17) it sent a report. and most of the reports have been unresponding programs.

i like it.i like the tabbed thingie. if 7 doesnt go screaming to microsoft begging them to make me leave it alone it might be a keeper. we'll see.

 

Been running this beta since released to public and have had no issues. I really like the tabs in this version of IE 7.0 over the last version.

 

Runs just fine for me. No problem since the install, the tabbed browsing is a big improvement but I miss the favourites toolbar which Firefox has. However, I have a feeling that the anti-phishing filter does slow down the loading of some sites, but I don't intend to turn it off!

Roger

 

Just One Small Problem So Far

So far IE7 beta 2, looks like and does what MS promised. I love the print center feature, just awesome. The only glitch I have had so far is my toolbars will not stay locked, and my home icon falls out of sight on the right side each time I load IE. Well two problems, oops. The other is a program that is supposed to integrate with no problem that I love using called 1-click answers. In all other tabbed browsers, it opens in another tabbed window as promised, in IE7 beta 2 it opens another IE instead of just another tab. Not sure if it is blasphemous to mention another browser, but if you like IE7 beta 2, you should love Avant 10.1 build 40. It is built on the IE engine.

Tarheelfan001

 

I bit the bullet and installed it a couple days ago but it only stayed for part of a day. It ran great, I didn't have any problems with it and I liked what I saw but it did cause a problem in OE for me.

I use OE to access to different accounts. One is my ISP account, the other a Hotmail account. Well, after I installed IE7 the Hotmail account acquired an annoyance. When I first logged onto it everything was fine but after that, any time I changed folders or checked the mail manually it would prompt me for my username and password. Once I entered it I was able to access the folder. But as soon as I'd click on a different folder I'd be prompted again. This would go on and on.

I searched the Google groups on this and it appears it's a pretty common problem with those who have installed IE7 and use OE to access their Hotmail account. The general answer as to a fix was "there is none yet ". I got so sick of it I uninstalled IE7 about 8 hrs after I installed it. OE returned to normal then so I guess I'll wait for the next beta and maybe check that out.

 

I've been using it periodically but frankly, I'm sticking with FF. It hasn't created any problems, but the fact that MS is so slow in patching security breaches is of concern.

 

IE7 bug

One bug I have found that does not restore when IE7 is removed etc.

I have been running MSN Toolbar desktop search.

It has altered something somewhere so the MSN search options now say I do not have Outlook Express or Outlook installed and why. The mail programs are working perfectly. but something the IE7 beta did changed something with the MSN desktop search so it can no longer recognise I have the programs installed.

Contacted the MSN crows who did not know and just pushed me off to
http://support.microsoft.com

 

It's so much better than beta 1. MS would have been mad to release that to the public. I've been running it with no issues both at work (proxying to the net) and at home using DSL. My only small issue (and it may not be an IE7 issue) is that often when clicking a link in the reading pane in Outlook 2003 it takes an age to launch IE if it's not already open.