IE7 Preview

Admin · Feb 6, 2006

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 has gone into public beta testing:

IE7 page: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/ie7betaredirect.mspx

Admin · Feb 6, 2006

Installed and running, looks very different at the top with multiple tabbed browsing (hmm wonder where they got that idea from ;-) ), a "search providers" option (Google not there by default but can be added), scalable screen view (nice) and RSS integration.

Our domain name toolbar still works

Hasn't crashed yet either!

deconstruction · Feb 6, 2006

tab browsing in IE... about time

thanks or the link admin

meinthecorner · Feb 6, 2006

If your running McAfee antivirus, it doesn't like to update with IE7 installed. I had to downgrade back to 6 to make it work.

Admin · Feb 6, 2006

meinthecorner said:
If your running McAfee antivirus, it doesn't like to update with IE7 installed. I had to downgrade back to 6 to make it work.

I just ran the McAfee update on mine and it worked fine (VS 8.0 Enterprise Edition).

meinthecorner · Feb 6, 2006

My version is the basic Customer edition. Just found an news article about it, which links off to the MS IE7 Blog:

"I have McAfee Internet Security Suite on my system, and when IE 7 is loaded, neither work," one tester wrote in Microsoft's news groups. "Surely...getting the system to work with an industry leader is a small price to pay." ... Microsoft acknowledged the compatibility issues with the McAfee software in a response on the IE team blog. "The McAfee issue is known, and we'll work on this for a future build," a Microsoft representative wrote on the blog.

meinthecorner · Feb 6, 2006

Also did anybody who still uses CRT Monitors find that it turned on Cleartype? I downloaded the MS Cleartype Powertoy and turned it off, but my browser fonts still looked bold and squashed.

philipp · Feb 7, 2006

Looks pretty good, especially the quicktabs feature. And Google have been quick off the mark in adding a feature to their homepage to change the MSN search box into a Google search box, that wasn't there a few hours ago!

P.

Admin · Feb 19, 2006

If you want (or should I say need) to uninstall IE7:

start->control panel->add remove programs->at the top check "show updates" radio box->scroll down in the list->you will see IE7 listed, uninstall that, restart and you are on IE6

I found that you have to click refresh every time you visit a page for it to show current information. It also creates hundreds of stranged named files in my My Documents folder, they look like some sort of temporary files.

I've also heard it doesnt work with Windows Update, nice one Bill, DOH

deconstruction · Feb 19, 2006

has problems other problems too

can not handle all CSS correctly (worse than before)
can not handle imbedded video / sound files etc
the blank home page is something hosting on www.zedo.com

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