IE7 Beta 2 (Public)

Impreza04 · Feb 1, 2006

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

First public Beta, I think personally that whatever it doing to the font make it look pretty good..

I think now if I spent a while switching back to IE, I wouldn't miss FF so much

DARRKCLOUD · Feb 1, 2006

Downloaded it this morning. It was OK, but I still like Firefox better.

F1GTR · Feb 1, 2006

So...is it safe?

amp88 · Feb 1, 2006

Couldn't look much more like Firefox if it tried. Miscrosoft were suing people for creating Vista skins...perhaps they deserve a bit of their own medicine? :lol:

F1GTR · Feb 1, 2006

They've put all the buttons in the wrong place. And I agree with Amp.

Jondot · Feb 1, 2006

GTRacer4
So...is it safe?

It's IE. Of course not ...

Impreza04 · Feb 1, 2006

lol.. Im not quite so anti-IE, withut it lot of people would struggle to get started on the internet..

cardude2004 · Feb 1, 2006

Yipee! Yipee! Yipee! A public test version. I will go download it right now!

I don't know if I will use it all the time, without reading more, just because it is a beta version and I don't know if it would be ok, but I will for sure download it. I wonder how secure it really is? (I know Jon said it wasn't because he likes FF, but FF sucks!)

I am a big fan of IE!

skip0110 · Feb 1, 2006

My software design teacher has been using it for a while (he is a MS beta tester...he had it before the public beta).

It is pretty unstable. As in, more unstable than Firefox.

cardude2004 · Feb 1, 2006

Yes, I got a few errors, but I like it!

It seems to have replaced my version of IE 6 totally! When I click on my IE shortcut, it now opens the new one.

Impreza04 · Feb 1, 2006

I've being trying it for a bit and it doesn't seem to be as problematic as FF when using a fair few tabs... normally 6-10 used tabs kills FF on my PC..

cardude.. you can go back by going to add/Remove programs > Tick Show Updates > Its one of them but my Taskbar just disappeared, so ill find out in a sec

EDIT: Well thats simple, its labelled clearly.. remove that andit'll be back to IE6

VIPFREAK · Feb 2, 2006

Why would I bother with this?

cardude2004 · Feb 2, 2006

I spoke too soon. I had 2 errors when I first opened the browser. I then restarted my PC and began to browse the internet. I didn't get any more errors, and I thought that the browser worked great! I really am liking IE7.

MugenVTEC · Feb 2, 2006

GTRacer4
So...is it safe?

I couldnt say more. Thats the big question.

dougiemeats · Feb 2, 2006

I've downloaded the installer... I'm still contemplating on where to install it or not.

Flame-returns · Feb 2, 2006

Got it, used it, and straight back to firefox. It doesn't even forecast the weather.

Another mindless generic clone of another companies product, good one Microsoft.

Burnout · Feb 2, 2006

At least it's faster than IE6.

Still like Firefox (Or, rather, Deerpark).

Sprite · Feb 2, 2006

Deerpark I would but im not sure it would be wise to put it on a pc with total amature like my parents using it.

Same to why im not using IE7, until its sort of reliable then its not safe around total Net retards lol

skip0110 · Feb 2, 2006

Exploit alredy found in IE7, among other bug reports....

Article: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6034054.html

Vulnerability: http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x23-advisory.txt

A denial of service vulnerability exists within Microsoft Internet
Explorer 7.0 Beta 2 which allows for an attacker to cause the browser to
crash, and or to execute arbitrary code on the targeted host.

Exploit proof-of-concept: http://www.security-protocols.com/poc/sp-x23.html

Driftster · Feb 3, 2006

oh man..it looks like some crappy cross between a Roxio program...and some sort of Jukebox.....

gross, unless they have themes that's bound for ugly status....

Flame-returns · Feb 3, 2006

I don't remember any of the previous IEs being beautiful either.

DuckRacer · Feb 3, 2006

It's a lot better than IE6. But anything really is.

It feels like IE is trying to keep up with FF. I never noticed anything new brought to the table.

emad · Feb 3, 2006

Too bad Trixie doesn't work with it yet

Evolution. · Feb 5, 2006

I won't even bother downloading it. It's still Exploder. They couldn't clone FireFox any worse if they tried. This is honestly pretty pathetic. You would have though Microsoft would have had at least 1 original thing to come out with (although we already knew the new IE was obviously going to be a butthump of FireFox)

Burnout · Feb 5, 2006

MachOne
I won't even bother downloading it. It's still Exploder. They couldn't clone FireFox any worse if they tried. This is honestly pretty pathetic. You would have though Microsoft would have had at least 1 original thing to come out with (although we already knew the new IE was obviously going to be a butthump of FireFox)

If you can't beat them, copy them.

Evolution. · Feb 5, 2006

Burnout
If you can't beat them, copy them.

Yeah, I guess. Microsoft has probably 40 times the cash Mozilla does and still can't develop a betterb rowser. What a shame.

skip0110 · Apr 25, 2006

Well the Beta 2 thats been out until now has apparently been a perview beta (which I was using), and now the real beta 2 is out: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx (and there is support for 64 bit Windows now as well)

The UI changed a bit, and it might be a little bit faster on back/forward but load times are about the same. Also random crashes/hangs on inage rich pages have been worked out. Well worth a look. Low memory usage, too.

dougiemeats · Apr 25, 2006

Just downloaded it this morning. I didn't like it when I downloaded it a while back... the user interface didn't really flow I thought. Everything seemed scattered all over the place.

It's starting to grow on me... any word about it's security compared to FF or Opera?

skip0110 · Apr 25, 2006

dougiemeats
It's starting to grow on me... any word about it's security compared to FF or Opera?

Well I don't have any "official" word, but I've not had any problems with viruses/spyware in the month or so I've been using it and I visit some dodgy sites

I also use Windows Defender always-on spyware protection.

It is definitely far superior to IE6, but that's just because the flaws havent been found yet.

dougiemeats · Apr 25, 2006

I use the IE7 beta + Defender beta combination as well. Pretty strange that I'm putting my computer in the hands of beta software... oh well, I don't really have important data on this machine. Just using it to test out a bunch of stuff.

IE7 Beta 2 (Public)

Impreza04

DARRKCLOUD

F1GTR

Trent Parke

amp88

F1GTR

Trent Parke

Jondot

Impreza04

cardude2004

skip0110

cardude2004

Impreza04

VIPFREAK

cardude2004

MugenVTEC

dougiemeats

Racing in the Rain

Flame-returns

Burnout

Sprite

Beanbag Brain

skip0110

Driftster

Flame-returns

DuckRacer

emad

Evolution.

Burnout

Evolution.

skip0110

dougiemeats

Racing in the Rain

skip0110

dougiemeats

Racing in the Rain

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