Comments on: IE7 Beta 2 Ships

By: links for 2006-04-26 at //nedward.org

links for 2006-04-26 at //nedward.org — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:01:50 +0000

[...] XP) ships Improved CSS rendering, RSS functionality, and something called “quick tabs” [via] (tags: microsoft software web [...]

By: Maxthon 再整装 - 刀枪Blue

Maxthon 再整装 - 刀枪Blue — Thu, 10 May 2007 13:12:50 +0000

[...] 正在好好捣鼓 IE7 ，Firefox 和 Opera [...]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 00:34:28 +0000

wow, try opening multiple tabs in myspace with this program. Maybe its the wonky css and html and multimedia, but it seriously chokes. I can open like 20 tabs with Firefox, same pages, same things enabled.

I’m glad to see IE is finally evolving, but its too little, too late.. I installed the IE7 upgrade, kinda disappointed, sticking to firefox permantly now..

cheers

By: web hosting company

web hosting company — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:16:20 +0000

I’ve tried IE, Opera, Netscape but I’ve stuck with Mozilla Firefox. Just wanna know Is it possible to have two IE browers on XP, one is IE6 and the other is IE7? If so, how?

By: kla

kla — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:22:24 +0000

Player. Had to close WMP, wait for don’t send error report (sent first 10 or so) & restart WMP to play. Try to play another video — crash.

By: Ryan G

Ryan G — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:24:10 +0000

Installed IE7 & worked fine until tried to click on videos. Video feeds started to crash Windows Media Player. Had to close WMP, wait for don’t send error report (sent first 10 or so) & restart WMP to play. Try to play another video — crash. Uninstalled IE7 and WMP works fine. I’ll stick with IE6 & Firefox (on occassion). Wait for Beta 3 or so.

By: hanne

hanne — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 20:45:03 +0000

Have been using ie7 beta 2 for 3 weeks and it works wonderfully! Had to reinstall flash and activex and acrobat reader first. It is a beta version, dont forget. A little searching and reading usually get good results. McAfee is the only thing I cannot get to function properly, but have read that both ms and McAfee are working on it.

Greetings from hanne

By: leanne

leanne — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:21:12 +0000

I am using ie7 beta 2 and continually get crashing while opening multiple tabs.

By: brian

brian — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 16:23:49 +0000

Same problem here with IE crashing whenever I open a tab. This build is garbage. At least Firefox beta builds are usable.

By: Adam Toth

Adam Toth — Fri, 19 May 2006 06:08:16 +0000

I’m also getting crashes everytime I open multiple tabs.

By: rochette

rochette — Fri, 19 May 2006 03:38:39 +0000

Web searches using your favorite search provider
can now be entered into a search box within the toolbar,
eliminating the clutter of separate toolbars.
You can easily choose a provider from the dropdown
list or add more providers.
Here’s a list of Search Providers for IE 7.

http://ieproviders.com/

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 17 May 2006 23:46:23 +0000

I really like how Arial font renders in IE7. But as a bilingual Russian/English user, I can switch languages with an IME hotkey in IE7 as I could in IE6 or other browsers.

So how does IE7 make the fonts render so prettily? Is there away to do this in other programs?

By: web design uk

web design uk — Wed, 17 May 2006 11:56:41 +0000

I much prefer Firefox.
I’ll always be embarassed to use IE.

By: TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Maxthon gets ready to face browser War

TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Maxthon gets ready to face browser War — Tue, 16 May 2006 13:55:14 +0000

[...] Browser is the new war field for the big guys. Microsoft is fine-tuning its IE7, FireFox and Opera get more and more sophisticated and more and more market share. [...]

By: John

John — Wed, 10 May 2006 18:09:48 +0000

The problem about Firefox not opening or going to a link when clicked has been solved. I removed IE7 and went back to IE6. This fixed the problem.
There is more information at the following Firefox post:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/.....69#2256469
The message is beware of IE7 beta 2 if you want Firefox to work.

By: John

John — Wed, 10 May 2006 15:48:47 +0000

I just installed IE7. I made sure Firefox is still set to be my default browser. When I click on a link in an email, my browser doesn’t open, just a window with my desktop. If I click on Firefox in this window, it just opens but to my homepage. The only way I can get the link to open is to copy and paste it into Firefox. If I set my default browser to be IE7 of course it will open. Is there a fix for this?

By: Matt Shadbolt

Matt Shadbolt — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:05:16 +0000

Regarding Mortimer’s comments:

The only reason Microsoft have kept Internet Explorer is for MSN. They make HUGE amounts of money on the traffic from MSN websites because by default IE’s home page is MSN (Hotmail, MSN search, Groups, Shopping etc.) . Most users don’t (or don’t know how) change their home page. Most users also don’t realise there are other “Internet’s”(Browsers) out there.
Microsoft can continue to patch up an inferior product because, basicly, everyone who uses windows, uses Internet Explorer. I hate it as much as anyone who has experienced an open source browser, but the fact is, the majority of computer users don’t know, and really don’t care!

Thanks.
Matt.

By: Farooq

Farooq — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:34:02 +0000

0. The only appreciating/innovative thing about IE7 B/B2 seems to be the menu navigation & memory management.
1. Be it IE 7 beta/beta2 Simply annoyed with that repositioning the ’standard’ position of Refresh button..
2. That Ctrl+F search box is much slower than that of Firefox and lacks way behind when compared with that Firefox Search features & implementation.
3. Too few AdOns I’d say :s

By: LN Tanenbaum

LN Tanenbaum — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:45:23 +0000

IE7 crashes every time mult tabs open. uninstalled

By: Splasho » IE7 Beta 2 Out

Splasho » IE7 Beta 2 Out — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:13:11 +0000

[...] I haven’t got it yet, but Techcrunch reports it has a new ‘Quick Tabs’ feature. [...]

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:55:38 +0000

Well this build totally killed my ability to run Google Desktop. It took me 2 hours to figure out why IE would crash with multiple tabs. I finally traced it back to my Desktop Search.

By: Matt Emery

Matt Emery — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:32:22 +0000

Friendly Guy, are you aware that Jon was being sarcastic?

Good call Jon!

By: Quantum Thinking » Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2

Quantum Thinking » Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:44:36 +0000

[...] Yesterday, after I read this post over on TechCrunch, I downloaded the second beta release of Internet Explorer 7, which Microsoft formally launched day before yesterday on their IE Blog. [...]

By: Friendly Guy

Friendly Guy — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:14:56 +0000

I of course meant IE6 has been around for years (thereby implying it’s not a beta and is a fully supported product)

By: Friendly Guy

Friendly Guy — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:14:06 +0000

Jon, are you stupid? IE has been around for years - it’s not like Google where every damn product is in perpetual beta for decades