Please send us your feedback on the IE7 Beta 2 Preview

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01/31/2006

The information published in this post is now out-of-date and one or more links are invalid.

—IEBlog Editor, 22 August 2012

Hi, I’m Jason Watters, a Program Manager on the Internet Explorer Team.

As Dean just announced, the IE7 Beta 2 Preview is now available for download. We hope you are looking forward to installing and testing it as much as we are looking forward to hearing your feedback on it. We have several different ways for you to send us your feedback.

First, you can post any questions or problems you have to the microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general newsgroup, either through a newsgroup reader or on the Microsoft Discussion Groups site .

We also have two ways for you to submit detailed bug reports to us if the newsgroup isn’t your style. The first way to report issues directly to us is by sending email to IETell@microsoft.com . To better equip us to investigate your issue, please include a detailed description of the problem and steps to reproduce the problem (e.g. for site issues, a URL to the website and if possible a screenshot of rendering issues). General machine configuration and installed toolbars or extensions can also be useful as well, and (if you know) whether the problem occurs in IE 6.0.

Also, please send your report from a valid email address so we can follow up with you if needed. We can’t commit to responding to each and every email we get, but all issues reported will be examined by the IE team in an effort to improve IE7.

The second way to report issues directly to us is the Microsoft Beta Client Tool , which is a client-side tool you will need to install. Although it may look specific to Windows Vista, it can be used for submitting IE7 bugs. On the first page of the tool, just make sure you choose "This install ‘is an Internet Explorer 7 update on Windows XP’" and set Area to ‘Internet Explorer’.

I hope you enjoy the IE7 Beta 2 Preview and we look forward to hearing from you!

- Jason Watters

Comments

Anonymous
January 01, 2003
STOP PUTTING genuine advantage into INSTALLERS!!!
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
STOP STEALING Microsoft Windows and you WON'T have a problem.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Why isn't the feedback/bugreport tool built it?
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Installing IE 7 overwrites IE 6. How exactly are we supposed to compare and contrast the updates you've made?
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Running a legally purchased copy of Windows at work, genuine advantage can't verify it and won't let me install it.

STOP PUTTING genuine advantage into installers!
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Crashed my system within 1 minute of installing, and found several bugs already.

E.g. have firefox as your default browser, and in IE7 open up a webpage on your local drive. This will result in IE7 loading the page in firefox and not in itself. Very strange behaviour.

Many others have already noted that they are getting bluescreens upon startup as well.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Sounds like your company was smart enough to lock down systems so genuine advantage and other programs of that nature won't work without IT approval.

Good for them and shame on you for even trying to install beta software on a work PC. Call your IT department and check your key. The reason it can't verify is because your key is being used elsewhere or a firewall is blocking the check.

Don't install this over IE6. Use Virtual PC and install it in a new instance of XP SP2, then you can run them side by side without the risk of running beta software on your machine.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Mike: IT gave me the beta package. I have an admin account on my Windows machine. My key also worked last time I installed something requiring this backward functionality.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Shawn, I know the folks over on the Genuine Advantage are keen to make sure that legitimate Windows users are not inconvenienced by the GA checks. I would encourage you to go to http://www.microsoft.com/resources/howtotell/ww/windows/default.mspx with your machine and follow the steps they provide. If you have a machine that should pass the GA check and does not, they'll want to know about it.

Unfortunately, there's nothing I nor anyone else on the IE team can do for you about this directly.

-Christopher
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
I don't see an x64 version, and the download version won't install on x64. Yet, down at the bottom it say that it will run on x64.

Is there a secondary download that I'm missing?
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Right now we only have the 32 bit version for XP SP2. We'll have x64 and Server 2003 builds at a later date.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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January 01, 2003
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Anonymous
January 01, 2003
This 5296 build has problems withe McAfee Virusscan. The Security Center (which is web-based) opens but it's blank. With IE6 installed there is no problem.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Bryan - The release notes (http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie/releasenotes/default.aspx) contain a good list of what has changed. Not everything, but most things. Hopefully a more detailed list will be on MSDN at some point.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Bryan,

Did you look at the Release Notes at http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie/releasenotes/?

- Al Billings [MSFT]
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
I'm having some install problems with a DLL (msfeeds.dll) and I can't find anything about it.

This is also documented in your newsgroup by two other people:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general&tid=8fe9115e-d0a9-4f0b-b4f3-506bc38bab36&cat=en_us_28cca3eb-7037-4d4f-bde1-d8efee1f1420&lang=en&cr=us&p=1

Not sure how to fix?
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
I like the RSS features. I think a agregate page for RSS feeds would be a big plus. I would be nice to be only one click away from recent feed headlines.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
The zoom and alias improvements to text are great. I cannot wait to get this on my 1920 x 1200 notebook running 130 dpi at home. I'm guessing that images should look a lot nicer. Atleast I hope so.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
"I'm having some install problems with a DLL (msfeeds.dll) and I can't find anything about it. "

add me to that list... but the feed back is hopefull
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
I too have install problems on 2 different machines - same msfeeds.dll error
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Why go with 5296 when clearly 5299 was "around"...?
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
I wanted to post right away after using the browser to get my initial user-experience reactions across while fresh.

1) The tabs - I really think a + sign would benefit the add new tab. It is about 60% intuative in my opinion and I am very comfortable in both a tabbed envirnment and a browser.

2) I dont know how much emphasis should be put on the button placement but the buttons on the right seem to be throwing me off a little. HOME for example - I am used to having them to the left of my screen. If I can move them later it's not a big deal. The RSS doesn't jump out in it's current location and it's a button I would expect will get a lot of attention.

3) The favorites buttons to the left are somewhat confusing. At first glance they seem redundant and they're just not overly intuative. I would have 1 button for favorites centre (The Start) and the + could go on the add new tab :)

4) The quick tabs - I love this idea great job.

5) Internet Explorer Dev Toolbar - It's a great add-on, giving my SharePoint Development background I use it alot and would love to see it standard in the browser.

6) Favorites needs some work. No export functionality. It would be great to see the ability to add meta-data to bookmarks during the add process and later filter them using this meta-data.

I'll stop now before I sound depressing. I am impressed with the work done thus far.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Sorry for double post in, but my RSS favorites feed shows "Go Seahawks!" as the newest topic.

Anyone knows, where I could find some info about new reg values? I want to add them to my reg file, but I cannot find out, what they actually do. Values: 180A, 180C, 2103, 2104, 2301. Following site was really usefull, but I do not think, that it will be updated sooner than in summer. :'(
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=182569

One more question, if I can ask. To add to the previous question. I have just noticed, that the released preview is the v7.0.5296.0 and the version, that has leaked to internet before was v7.0.5299.0. Does it mean, that 5299 is unstable and I should not have to use it? Thanks forward.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
A feature request.

In Firefox there is an extension called Greasemonkey. There is a scipt which automatically converts http links that are in text form (not clicable link e.g. www.microsoft.com) and automatically converts it to a clickable link.

Is it possible for future versions to add this feature?

Keep up the good work
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
RSS Features:

Can someone help me understand the RSS Features?

As I see them implemented, they don't seem to do much at all.

Firefox Live bookmarks shows you the latest headlines, without having to open a new page

Am I missing something? I hope!?
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
IE7 looks pretty good to me so far.

Product Enhancement Requests:
- Ability to rearrange the toolbars. ie. I'd like to move the Tab toolbar to the bottom, and put the Classic Toolbar above the Address bar

- Ability to rearrange the tabs in the Tab toolbar

- Mouse gestures

The biggest thing that would convince me to give up Firefox/Opera for IE7 is stability of the program & no memory leaks. I'm going to leave IE7 open with 10+ tabs for a few days and see what happens to memory usage.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Hey guys, one major area that Internet Explorer has alwas lacked hugely in is downloading! Even FireFox doesn't do this well. If your download engine would only support RESUMING DOWNLOADS you would save tons of people time and grief!! At the moment I use a third party tool for this, it would be great if you one-up the FF team!

You all probably like the Tabs being on the bottom too....logically it makes more sense to put them on top, and the related address bar on the bottom...I really think that was a brash decision just to avoid how FF did it... Just reverse the top tool bars and you've got a winner ;) Or at least put in an option for it! (pretty please?)
Good job though on everything else. Take care.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Hey guys, one major area that Internet Explorer has alwas lacked hugely in is downloading! Even FireFox doesn't do this well. If your download engine would only support RESUMING DOWNLOADS you would save tons of people time and grief!! At the moment I use a third party tool for this, it would be great if you one-up the FF team!

You all probably like the Tabs being on the bottom too....logically it makes more sense to put them on top, and the related address bar on the bottom...I really think that was a brash decision just to avoid how FF did it... Just reverse the top tool bars and you've got a winner ;) Or at least put in an option for it! (pretty please?)
Good job though on everything else. Take care.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Hi,
I'm having problems with my two PC's with the RSS feature. When I click any RSS link inside the RSS window, an error appears, IE freeze, and have to close it. Any suggestions to solve this? BTW, the rest of IE is very good.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Hey guys, can't anyone help me? I can't uninstall IE 7 Beta 1. It's not there in Programs list with Show Updates on.

Please tell me what to do to install Beta 2.

Appreciate any help!

BTW I have a genuine Windows XP Home Edition SP2
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
A great change, really. Now the adress bar is on the top of the window. Wow.

What a shame you IE developpers forgot the main thing : a web-browser is NOT a rss reader, it is not a plugins/extension basis : it is just a bowser, and thus has to do WELL his job of browser. Overflow is broken, boxmodel often is, float/clear is broken... When will it finally possible to use common html possibilities in IE ? (Well, okay, you made improvements on PNG and some other things like fixed position, but the Thing you packed today is far far away from my needs...)

Keep going on developements, i would like so much IE to be a standard compliant and rich browser...
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Hey Moka, in the Add or Remove programs windows, check the option "Show Updates" and IE 7 Beta 1 appear now in the list. Bye
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Bye :(
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Moka,

If you don't see it in your list to uninstall, try running:
%windir%$NtUninstallie7bet2p$spuninstspuninst.exe. You need to have "view hidden folders" enabled.

"%windir%" here is your main Windows directory (usually C:Windows).

This is detailed in the release notes at http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie/releasenotes/default.aspx.

- Al Billings [MSFT]
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January 01, 2003
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Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Hey Al,

Thanks for replying. I'm trying to uninstall IE 7 Beta 1. It isn't there on Show Updates so I can remove it. So can you tell me how to unistall it? or What command can I run?

Appreciate your help,
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Moka,

You run the program that I mention above in your main Windows directory (probably C:Windows):

$NtUninstallie7bet2p$spuninstspuninst.exe.

You need to have "view hidden folders" enabled or you won't see the directory $NtUninstallie7beta2p$ in your Windows directory.

- Al Billings [MSFT]
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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Anonymous
January 01, 2003
So far I'm impressed by what I see, I've noticed a few things that are a little odd, however.

I'm not sure I like the favourites button.. it's not very intuitive, as I had to hunt for several minutes before finding where it was located. If it could be moved over near the home button, that would help a little.. even a tool tip would be useful. Many people are used to the favourites link being right in the menu bar.

Is there any way to edit the toolbars? I know in previous versions you could click customize and shift the toolbar buttons back and forth, but I don't see any way to do that in the new version.

The new tab button is kind of odd - in my version, it's just a grey button until you over over it. Then you see the new page icon. Also, the add to favourites button is rather similar to adding a new tab - I would associate the "plus" sign as opening a new tab before I associated it with subscribing to a feed (especially since it's no where near the RSS stuff).

That's my observations, so far! Good work though.. it will be nice to not have to pull out my hair to try and get my websites to view the same as Firefox! :D
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Why don't you use Ladybug for public feedback tracking?
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback

Microsoft's Developer Division uses this and it is fantastic.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Got a lot of ideas so far, but want to keep using the program before a big post -- wanted to get this out there right away, though.

Please consider using CTRL-F4 for shutting the foreground Tab. It's a convention used in so many applications that use tabs, e.g., UltraEdit.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Al,

First, I ran the command but it tells me that the folder isn't avaliable. I enabled "view hidden folders" already and went to the Windows folder, but there is no unistall folders but one for Windows Installer (KB893803v2). The folder for IE 7 doesn't exist.

What else can I do? Thanks,
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Everything looks nice. Good job. But. Need gestures. Cannot live without them. Please!!!
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
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Anonymous
January 31, 2006
"Customer",

This is a Beta 2 Preview, not Beta 2. The link you post to is the Changelog for an entire service pack. You're comparing apples and oranges.

- Al Billings [MSFT]
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Moka,

Are you sure that you have it installed? It doesn't show up in Add/Remove Programs and the directories are not under Windows. You downloaded and installed the IE7 Beta 2 Preview today and now cannot uninstall, right?

- Al Billings [MSFT]
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Some secure sites are not accessable anymore. Online banking site for instance. (Wells Fargo)

Also, my favorites pane no longer works. The links are there, but when I click them, nothing happens.

THoughts?

Eric
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Ignores the fact that I have "No Sounds" selected as my sound scheme.

If I play with the zoom feature, then go back to 100%, subsequently changing tabs results in a terrible flicker where it appears to repeatedly render the title bar at different heights.
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Eric,

In most of these instances (like bank sites), the bank is sniffing for the browser version and blocking web browsers or redirecting them if they don't recognize the user agent string. The IE team is contacting sites as they are found but, if it is your bank, you may wish to let them know that their site doesn't work.

- Al Billings [MSFT]
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Al,

No, what I have installed on my computer is Beta 1, and it's working fine. But I want to remove it now in order to install Beta 2 (at least that's what the install package tells me to do).

The problem is that Beta 1 is neither showing under Show Updates nor as a directory under C:/windows, and I can't uninstall it. So do you have a solution for this?
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Running in with "add-ons" disabled, then going to "Manage add-ons" reveals the "ssv helper object" from Sun Microsystems is loaded and enabled.

Running with "add-ons disabled", then going to "Mange add-ons" reveals a whole multitude of "add-ons" that are allowed to run "without permission"

When running with "add-ons disabled", ActiveX objects such as "Confidence online for web applications" from WholeSecurity incorporated (a common cytrix security item) is loaded and enabled.
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
MS Devs,

Can there still be changes made to the interface and the way the "Links" toolbar and favorites interact? What I'm wondering is if instead of opening up your favorites, then clicking on a group of tabs to open, have a folder of favorites located on the "Links" toolbar and when you middle click or right click > open group in tabs happen or occur. Is this something that can be implemented at this point and time or has all the main features and what not been finalized? Thank you.
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Thanks for the suggestion, Ryan. It's something we'll consider for IE7.
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Hello,
Great work guys IE7 is very stable and an overall solid browser. A few problems though, I am using a USB modem and IE7 keeps detecting my connection status as "Working Offline" so constantly tries to connect to a connection that is allready active! I can resolve this in options though by selecting IE not to dial any connections. RSS functionality and management is absolutely superb and so is tabbed browseing. However I noticed that IE7 appears to be slightly slower than Firefox or even IE6. Looking forward to final release, Thanks!
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Why are you redoing the menu bar? It's much worse now and different then IE 6 and Firefox "just to be different". It holds no advantage over the "normal" way of doing things.

Where the heck are my bookmark links?
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Hello.
I have two questions. The first, I think, has already been made tought not answered: ¿Is there a way to install IE7b2p along IE6? While I'd like to test my websites and everything, I can't do without IE6. I only have one computer (for me) in the office, and IE6 will be the most used browser for quite a long time.
The second is related to the system requirements. Or, better, how much slower than IE6 will it be? There are several old machines in the place were I work that could benefit from IE7. Is memory usage greater than before?

Thanks.
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Why isn't bug reporting utility INTEGRATED into this BETA?
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Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Some freezing on different pages,other than that,I like it.Maybe allow the tool bar to auto hide in next version.Just an Idea
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
I wish I could Ctrl click a folder in the favourites menu or the Links bar and have all bookmarks contained within open in tabs.
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
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Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Sorry, last comments. Just a few UI suggestions. The "Quick Tabs" button is spaced a little strangely next to the "Add to Favorites button" and also, since your going with the "less is more" philosophy, why not put the "+" (Add to Favorites) button inside the Favorites pop out window?

For that matter...it's strange to have the buttons isolated on the left, next to the tabs...if you put the tabs up top and the address bar on the bottom, it would make more sense with the Bookmarks button next to the back/forward buttons. (probably not going to happen)

For mom and pop, it might make sense to enable the Text to the right of the icons (Home, Rss, Print) to make it easier on them. Just like in IE6, we would then have an option to hide the text (for advanced users).
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Riffola, You can do that by right clicking the folder and clicking "Open in Tab Group". Adding the control key for power users would make it easier though.
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
@Mark McKinnon: Unfortunately, the problem with the McAfee security center is a known issue and a workaround is not available yet. We're working on this.
--
@mitch: Yes, "Find on Page" hasn't seen as much improvement as we would have liked for IE7. Stay tuned to the IE blog for more on this feature.
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Came across a menu bug at: http://www.asp.net/default.aspx?tabindex=8&tabid=60

Each menu is the full width of the page, and they extend about halfway down the page, like a ladder.
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Hello,

I'm having the same problem several people described above regarding IE7 Beta 1 Uninstall. I did some searching and it looks like a lot of people are complaining about this problem but I am yet to see a working solution. As I installed it months ago, System Restore is not an option.

Can someone from IE team please advise how IE7 Beta 1 can be UNINSTALLED if it does not show up in Add/Remove Programs?

Thanks!
Adil
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Found the "classic toolbar" appreciate you adding it back.

Scrolling is jerky on sites like msn.com and slashdot.org. IE 6 is smooth on those site.

Why can't we move the buttons to where we want? At a minimum you should allow me to move the home menu to where I want.
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
"# re: Please send us your feedback on the IE7 Beta 2 Preview
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:44 PM by EricLaw [MSFT]
@Mark McKinnon: Unfortunately, the problem with the McAfee security center is a known issue and a workaround is not available yet. We're working on this."

Does that mean MSC is turn off I really need to know ASAP if it is I need to know ASAP if I uninstall it IE7 will it bring it back.
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
BTW the http://www.rsac.org/ RSACI that you have in the content advisor has been ICRA since 1999 I think someone needs to fix that.
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
I would like an option in Feed Settings (Tools->Internet Options->Content->Feeds) where I can set the default time to check for updates. The 1 day too long for me and I would prefer not to have to change that for all feeds I add.
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
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Anonymous
January 31, 2006
please allow a password management system like Moz's, i.e. no need to type in password

BTW, can this current version work with the Microsoft Fingerprint Reader? Will the gold product work w/it?
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
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Anonymous
January 31, 2006
I am a diehard IE guy. I had hoped that the new beta would have brought more functionality for the developer.
Like easy on/off of tabs(maybe an icon button).

Button for "view source" that opens up the code nicely formatted out rather than notepad.

Able to put my toolbars where I want them(home,feed,print,ect)I can't find a way to move them to where I want.

Able to view in IE or Firefox for development of web pages much needed(Firefox already has).

Everyone but me in our web department has moved to firefox mainly for this reason and we are a .Net shop.

Come on guy don't make me have to switch..
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
I found that if you uncheck "Use Smooth Scrolling". Tools,Internet Options,Advanced.

My scrolling started working properly.
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
I've only had this for a couple of hours, so I haven't really tested it thoroughly, two thumbs up on the interface and type. The experience is much better.

On RSS
IE7 can't read the following RSS Feed
http://www.jordanplanet.net/rss20.xml

Automatic Download of Enclosures? How does this work, where are the files donwloaded?
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
I share the same working Offline issue that has been mentioned earlier. Starting dialup connection, connecting, then start IE7, connect to website, then start Outlook Newsreader will bring up a no internet connection found dialog "Would you like to go offline?" incorrectly, as there is an internet connection.

Tried reporting using the beta reporting tool above, but it wouldn't allow upload to Microsoft for some reason (maybe related to this issue?)
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Feature suggestion. Windows Media Player hides its whole classic menu behind a single button. I would like to see a similar button on the IE toolbar, as having the whole classic menu displayed is a little untidy.

It took me a while to realise that CTRL-F was find on webpage, this is not mouse accessible any more without the classic menu, I cannot mouse select Work Offline any more either, however I might not have found it yet.

However, great release.
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
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Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Qantas airways (Australias big airline) online reward bookings does not allow flight bookings using this browser, detecting it as Netscape 6.0!

If you're talking to companies about websites, try them too!
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
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Anonymous
January 31, 2006
In your blog posting earler:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/12/07/501075.aspx

You mentioned that computers connected to a workgroup and not a domain will not have an Intranet zone. After downloading the beta 2 preview, I noticed that the Internet Options still has the "Local Intranet" listed as a field with associated options. Why is it still listed?
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
http://www.creative.com/language.asp?sDestUrl=/support/downloads

The above url to creative's website doesn't work with IE7 B2 Preview, could someone either contact them? Or is it a bug in IE?

Thanks.
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Another thing, it seems IE 7.0 is not compatbile with Blogger. When editing, what you type doesn't appear on the screen.
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
The addition of XMLHttpRequest is very nice, but for really advanced AJAX applications (like xopus.com) to run without ActiveX alerts we need XMLDocument and XSLDocument as well!

This is really important! XMLHttpRequest is only half of the AJAX toolkit!
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
The address bar is still always visible on popup windows. As a web-application developer it is annoying to have the address always visible.

It would be nice if the address bar could be hidden as in IE6 - perhaps this could be limited to trusted sites only?
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
PingBack from http://www.thinklemon.com/weblog/2006/02/01/internet-explorer-7-beta-2-preview-available/
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
If I start messenger and log in correctly and I have a new messages I click on tab and internet explorer starts but two pages are opened and hotmail tell me that the passwoard and username are wrong.
But If I go on internet with www.hotmail.com and insert the correct username and password all work! IS A BUG?
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
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Anonymous
January 31, 2006
1 addition to my user-experience reaction:

where did the refresh button go?
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Strangely enough, IE7 is not fully Unicode 4.1 compatible, not even 4.0.1 compatible, just like Office 2003 products. The bidi class of some characters including: +, -, / and FRACTION SLASH has changed in Unicode 4.0.1, but IE7, like Office 2003, behaves base on Unicode 4.0. Is there any plan to correct it?
Anonymous
January 31, 2006
Thank you for the clarification on exporting favorites.

Oddly I had no idea that you could do this in IE6 either.

Perhaps a link to the same functionality via a button on the favorites centre? - It would seem intuative to me.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Seems to be a problem with dropdown lists i.e. you cannot use the mouse to select items from the list using the down arrow is also problematic. Has anyone else seen this?
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Much better than Beta 1. Only major gripe - PLEASE restore the default color of visited links to a proper purple color - the new "light" purple is close in tone to the default blue - this is a usability no-no - it is hard to distinguish visited links from fresh - adding to cognitive processing time!
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
There is absolutely nothing about software that breaks systems as much as Microsoft's "Genuine Advantage" malware that is actually advantageous to the customer. Truth in labelling laws should be applied. Then again, if lemon laws were applied to Microsoft products, Microsoft would have gone broke long ago.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Shane Perran:

It's next to the address bar :)
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Looks great but...

Can't open Favourites using menu option, just makes 'Bing' sound
Can't open website from Favourites Center, will not open page by doubleclicking or by rightclick open. just does nothing

Also be nice to have the option when right-clicking a link to 'Open in new tab windows'
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Found a bug in select lists. Adding an removing items from a select list with more than one row (i.e. size greater than 1) using the DOM does not change / add / remove the scroll bar.

To re-create:

var newoption = document.createElement("option");
newoption.text = "test";
newoption.value = "1";
var add = document.getElementById("myselect").options.add(newoption);
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Just crashed as I was writing some feedback - hitting the Submit button did nothing so I hit F5 to refresh and IE terminated.

Anyway...just installed this onto a laptop and IE has insisted on using cleartype. The reason I don't use cleartype is because I DON'T want to use it; this isn't a choice the browser should make for me. Also, to disable it, IE requires a restart but this is not made clear in the options. Finally, IE changed my taskbar clock format.

Are system changes really needed for installing just a single application?!
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Just crashed as I was writing some feedback - hitting the Submit button did nothing so I hit F5 to refresh and IE terminated.

Anyway...just installed this onto a laptop and IE has insisted on using cleartype. The reason I don't use cleartype is because I DON'T want to use it; this isn't a choice the browser should make for me. Also, to disable it, IE requires a restart but this is not made clear in the options. Finally, IE changed my taskbar clock format.

Are system changes really needed for installing just a single application?!
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
First impressions of IE7 look good, but I have issues with the user interface. The main annoyance is there are certain features of the UI that you can't move (e.g. address/search bar, favourites button) etc.

I find it really frustrating being forced to adopt a specific layout and would request more features that allow the customisation of the current layout.

For example, I'd like to have my favourites appear on the right hand side, rather than the left (my brain is just wired that way). I'd also like to be able to move the address/search bar from it's location at the top window, to the bottom of the window.

Thanks,

Wesley Williams
http://spaces.msn.com/wideawakewesley
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
The arrow next to each favourites folder in the Favourites center is a bit misleading. Instead of opening the folder to list the sites in it as one would expect, it opens up all the sites in that folder in new tabs. I ended up with 30 tabs open the first time I made that mistake.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Need a way to set font sizes like Opera, Firefox.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Iam a Member of a vbulletin community - then i write a new post i use a WYSIWYG Editor. In the Message Editor u can click on some smilies - after clicking on a smilie the smilies does not show in the editor but on the top of the page.

Regards
Henry
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Need a way to hide address bar, thanks.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
I want a cleanup utility for history, cookies etc when I close the browser as in NETCAPTOR. Firefox does it on request.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
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February 01, 2006
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Anonymous
February 01, 2006
chalk another complaint up to cannot move toolbars.....
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Guys,

The File menu is missing from above the address bar. This is like so standard. Since Windows 1.0.

How can I put it back there? Us keyboard users need that!

Thanks :)
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Hi,
I think I have spotted a bug in the second Beta of IE 7 and was wondering if its me or the software. On my installation if you define a style a:hover in an imported stylesheet it does not trigger in the browser.

Take a look at:
http://www.boagworld.com/ie7/inline.html

A simple link with an inline a:hover style. Works like a treat.

Now look at the same HTML and CSS but this time with the CSS styles held in a linked stylesheet:
http://www.boagworld.com/ie7/linked.html

Again this works fine.

Finally take a look at this. Same CSS but this time imported rather than linked:

http://www.boagworld.com/ie7/import.html

For me this doesnt work. I dont get the hover effect. Is this a known problem?
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
best working beta i ever seen.
pretty much bug free and workable.
great work ie team this beta is ready for prime time.
now some templetes and tools would be nice for this beta.
as for the product itself i give it a thumbs up.
some items i dont like but there a user preference item so i leave it at that.
the look is very different not allways a good thing cause people dont allways like change so a ie 6 mold would be wise.
ie is think is the best because of ms tools and add on the problem is no one knows about them and ms site is to blame and the leadership in mangement.
the ie team can a great job and still it rests on the fact it must fit into xp and there where i think ms products fails.
the lack of overall magement to bring deptpartments under one team.
the web sites are horible no one but a IT can find info in them.
i think ms needs to adresses this issue that there to much teach talk on one page and nothing on another.
ie 7 i give a big thumbs up for two reasons.
one is for the team who released the best working beta ever,no bugs or issues.
great job.
the 2nd is good product that moving forward and in testing and awaiting comments and trails.
this is how you release a product great gob people.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
http://www.robertnyman.com/2006/02/01/ie-7-beta-2-a-first-test-drive/
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Separate the browser from the OS and maybe MS can make it as secure as Firefox. Until then, Firefox will remain the security officers choice of browser.

Nice to see MS trying to play catch up instead of market smashing again.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Really like the new look and features, couple of things though.

For the Feeds section, it would be nice to maybe get an icon next to the sites that have been updated but not yet viewed. Also I like the automatic updates for the feeds but it would be more useful to me if it would only check for these updates while IE is open only.

With the Tabs, it would be nice to have some feature options on the last open tab. As I get in the habit of closing these tabs on the tab - I feel like there is something missing when I get to the last tab and then ave to go to the top of the program screen to close IE. Perhaps a close button or a revert to homescreen button on the last open tab?
It would also be nice if I was given the option to open links into a new tab when clicking on them.

And finally I would like more contol over the toolbar positions with some memory as to where I left them. This would greatly improve my experience.

Soild build and has not crashed once. Great job and looking forward to seeing this product in full production.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
I'm sorry but I really have to laugh at your Quick Tabs feature. It basically begs the question, why not just have your pages in seperate windows? Although, you probably already know tabs are counterproductive and reduce usability. =)
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
I'm sorry but I really have to laugh at your Quick Tabs feature. It basically begs the question, why not just have your pages in seperate windows? Although, you probably already know tabs are counterproductive and reduce usability. =)
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Three unwelcome things I noticed:

1. Favicons (aka site icons)
On installing IE 7 I lost all the favicons (I used favorg that worked with IE6). Now the only way to get them back is laboriously to change the icon for each favorite in the favorites folder. They then appear on the Favorites list in IE7, but not on the tabs.

2. Changes in cookies/temp internet files folder contents
I noticed that in the cookies folder the cookies no longer appear as .txt files,but instead appear in the same way as in the temporary internet files folder; this prevents me from reading the cookie information; also files associated with a site (images etc.) also appear in the cookies folder as well as in the temp internet files.

3. Index.dat files
I am used periodically to clear the index.dat files for content.IE5 and History on restart using either CCleaner or index.dat suite.
They still work, but now also clear all saved cookies (for auto login on various forums). This is very annoying.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
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Anonymous
February 01, 2006
I have a simple javascript that changes the class of a DOM-element to another class. In Firefox and Opera the browser gets the style-information for the new class and applies it to the element.
IE doesn't seem to. But as far as I know the code is standards-compliant.

It might just be me as I'm fairly new to Javascript. But I think it would make people's lives easier. It would make mine easier in any case.

Also, I had a "fixed" element in the bottom left corner where it should have been in the bottom right corner, which I thought was a little odd.
It has position: fixed; bottom: 0; right: 0; where the other elements that are fixed on the right have position: fixed; right: 0; top: 0;
Wish I had the DOM-inspector in IE to see what went wrong there.

Overall: I'm quite pleased.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
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Anonymous
February 01, 2006
please please please get a decent graphic designer. The back and forward buttons are poorly rendered and pixelated. The styling is really overdone. Will this stuff be skinable? Maybe this is a Vista issue because those screenshots are not looking so great.

Other than that functionality is awesome. the CTRL+Q thing is a bit hard to do. I think you should just go for it an make it F9, no shame right?
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
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Anonymous
February 01, 2006

install it separately to IE6
2. make it easier to uninstall

Anonymous
February 01, 2006
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February 01, 2006
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Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Considering that tabbed browsing is the headliner for the new IE7 why so short on configuration!? Look at Maxthon browser for configuration. I would like to have
1. multiple rows of tabs
2. ability to have fixed width tabs
3. ability to drag tabs next to eachother (no browser does this that I know of)
4. ability to rename the text on a tab
5. open links in new tab instead of new window

Maxthon has some other great features that would be nice in IE also. I LOVE that you can re-open closed tabs from a list of visited sites in Maxthon. Very handy!

Other than a few more features and updates, I find IE7 to be a very good start. Much improvement over IE6. The consolitation of tools and toolbar elements is very nice.

Tabbed browsing really needs to be extrordinary to beat the competition though. IE7 isn't even close to being as flexible as the of other tabbed browsers.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
We've lost the ability to do an alpha-sort of Favorites?

Please restore this feature.

Thank you.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Definately getting better.

I have to say though that I'm not going to enjoy the current implementation of favorites. I'd much rather see more options for customizing it - such as having it work like a start button or something so that it opens and closes on request rather than having it just simply be open. I don't like a cluttered browser experience and having it open at all is distracting.

I also would prefer to see the ability to move the various toolbars and tabs around as desired. I think the MS office implementation of toolbars is a good starting ground. Turn em on - turn em off. Only show the ones you need and rearrange the order within the toolbar as desired. Let them be pinnable to any location in the broswer.

Must be able to rearrange the order of tabs via drag and drop!

Good start!
Anonymous
February 01, 2006

No min-width/max-width support. Years to implement this and you haven't bothered. With the advent of CSS over tables to lay out pages THIS IS ESSENTIAL. Why you cannot recognise it's importance I've no idea. If you ignore the developers/designers they will ignore you!

2) The "security" bar - WHAT A MAJOR PAIN! Could you design a more irritating element? It triggers on loading a standard local XHTML and CSS page. WHY? What's dangerous about that? Why deliberately not load their homepage and then tell them YOU think it's a little dodgy, but if they click here a dozen times you'll respect the browser settings and load it? MICROSOFT WILL NOT CONTROL MY BROWSER - I WILL.

What's even more annoying is the inability to turn it off. If you follow the instructions, as it says, IT DOES NOT WORK! Did anyone bother to test that? Click on the cross to close it and it comes back on a reload.

GET RID OF IT.

3) Overall design of the browser: AWFUL! Why have everything split to the left and the right? Users don't want to have to go into the left corner for basic functionality, and then have to go into the far right corner to access other simple actions, then back to the left for another, then across to the right. WHO DESIGNED THIS?

Why was this done? To make it more difficult to use?

Hide the standard toolbars? NO!
Anti-alias the text (Clear Text) on default? NO!

There were loads more issues, but I uninstalled it and wiped it from my machine as soon as I could. Of course, all my IE6 bookmarks were now alphabetical......

What a surprise. NOT.

Back to FIREFOX, who understand people!

Anonymous
February 01, 2006
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Anonymous
February 01, 2006
The negative:

Favorites/RSS panel doesn't work at all (causes program crash). The only way I can open links is by dragging them onto the browser pane.

No advanced settings. Perhaps this is by design? Either way, if I click in the empty space where the advanced settings are meant to show, I have a program crash.

Initial "http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx" always fails to save my settings.

Some sort of ClearType font smoothing has been set as a default, which naturally affects my Outlook preview pane.

Zoom/Text size tools don't do anything (though I can resize text using the more traditional method).

UI: very scrappy (the forward/back buttons look like an ancient build of Flock, menu items moved around too much).

Tabs: can't drag tabs to reorder.

Toolbars: can't reorder or customize this at all.

However, on a more positive note, I like the little open a new tab/close tab button on the side of the tab. I like the refresh/go button all in one. I like the Quick Tabs function. As someone experienced in using beta versions, I was surprised at how many problems I had with IE7 B2. But I can see that you guys have been trying to come up with something new, and I think that's important. I look forward to a release candidate!
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
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Anonymous
February 01, 2006
I suppose you guys forgot that you were creating a browser and focussed on making the UI flashy.

Try making IE7 a standalone browser instead of integrating it into windows.

Since everyone already expects windows to scream, crash and fail even when it's idle since startup and not connected to a network or peripherals, it would be easier to make windows compatible with IE7 than the other way around.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Whenever I start my browser, it takes me to http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx and asked me to enter my personel settings. When I click the "Save Settings" button, it tells me there was an error and only gives me the option to continue to my homepage. I don't want to go through this everytime I start my browser, which exceeds 100 times a day. Thoughts?

Eric
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
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Anonymous
February 01, 2006
I hate the skin.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
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Anonymous
February 01, 2006
I have enjoyed using IE 7 Beta 2 so far.

Features that I like include:
> The Quick Tabs window with keyboard shortcut; (New)
> Integrated search bar with ability to load multiple search engines; (Catch up feature)
> Opening groups of favourites; (Catch up feature)
> True full page viewing of pages; (New)

Features which I hope you could build in to the RTM version:
> Better on-page text find. Ie. as I type in a on-page text find, find the next instance;
> A history of file downloads with save and origin locations and options to redownload files or clear download list;
> When tabbing through pages to get a semi-transparent view of all tab pages to help in navigating to the correct one.

Hope this helps!
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Please, please turn off Clear-type by default!

Why not put the Add/Subscribe plus sign next to the Feeds Icon?

Please make the Search area resizable. Also, the Stop button is ill-designed, it does not "afford" its function.

Please please, one last thing, when I middle click something from the Favorites Center (or Feeds) DON'T close the flyout pane, wait until my mouse moves out of the pane region.

If I left - click something, go ahead and close it. Hope that makes sense.

There is a lot to like about this browser.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
A Download Manager is really missing!!! So please
But, nice build
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
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Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Initial impressions:

1. Reminds me of Flock. Especially the back and forward buttons. Took me a while to find the refresh button, too, which was disappointing.

2. There's this little half tab next to the main window tab that I can't get rid of and it is driving me insane. I'm assuming I can remove it, but A) it shouldn't be there in the first place and B) removing it isn't very intuitive. Secondly, I'm not even sure what it does. Dragging a link onto there just changes my main window. Hitting Control+T brings up a blank tab. At best, it seems to be extraneous.

3. Tabs are wonky. Sometimes middle clicking brings one up, sometimes it doesn't. Same thing with closing them. Also, when I first middle click a link, it changes the main window, then when I middle click a second link, it opens up a tab? I'm baffled as to what it wants from me.

All in all, very underwhelming. It's fast, but the usability is poor.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
First and foremost, well done a very good "feel" to the interface. Improved performance is evident but at what expense, I have monitored the memory and processor utilisation when using IE7.
HTTP/HTTPS (including asp, php and aspx) memory usage is 10-60MB and processor usage is negliable which is on par with IE6 and Firefox. However when the webpage contains a shockwave or java element the memory utlisation jumps to three times that circa 180MB, which is not on par with the aforementioned web explorers. Is this intentional ? or could it be that the various plug-ins/add ons required not as yet fully compatible with the newer version of IE ?
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
After seeing IE7 fail in so many ways, I felt compelled to uninstall it. However, it will not uninstall. It froze at "updating registry" or something like that. Now after a couple of restarts, I'm being told I am attempting to uninstall it from a different account than I first used to install it. That is wrong. Dead wrong. I also received some message about a file missing. In other words, IE7 has been a complete disaster.

I now have no IE of any form. That also means I now have no Maxthon -- what IE7 should have been long ago. So in Microsoft's attempts to catch up to the competition, they now have me with no Microsoft-browser capabilities, and I am having to post this with the targeted competitor, Firefox!, no less.

So, how do I get my computer back? And no, Microsoft's restore didn't work, either. Surprised? (I'm not.) Just give me my computer back Microsoft and we'll strike a bargain. I will never again buy a Windows product and you will never again have to worry about fixing your problems on my computer. Deal? Jeesh.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
In order to post to my FTP site I am required to do a login. However with IE7 the File > Login As... does not exist even though Help documents say it should.

Any help with this?
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
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February 01, 2006
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Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Hi, I am usher's syndrome (low vision), I upset IE6 don't have Charcter spacing positions that I can't read

I show you

go IE6
click Tools-->Internet Options
click button "Accessibility"
click all 3 uncheck under Formatting
click Ok
click Ok
click View-->Text Size-->Largest

go

http://www.blackberry.com/messenger/entry.do
http://www.asus.com/index.aspx
http://www.tomshardware.com/
some website not perfect spacing positions

IE7 will clear spacing positions?
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Please add a simple pause button on the download dialog..., thanks
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
In Firefox, you can right click on highlighted text and select "Search web for ..." - this would open up a new tab and automatically do a web search on the highlighted topic. I use this feature all the time. Another feature that is missing, is the ability to right click on a link and choose to open it in another tab.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Disreguard the second comment of my post, I guess it is there already - just didn't see it at first.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
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Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Eric - I am seeing the same problem w/ the runonce page on one of my machines at work. We're taking a look at the problem and will hopefully have a fix soon. Thanks for reporting.

Everyone else - keep the feedback coming. Hopefully you understand that we cannot hope to follow up with everyone individually, but we are reading the feedback.

Also, if you're filing a bug report, please use the feedback mechanisms we've listed in our blog post (http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/01/31/520817.aspx)!

Thanks,
-Christopher
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Please let me chose where I want ot put the toolbars as this is driving me mad. Please allow rearranging of the tabs by dragging and dropping.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
PingBack from http://www.flyweb.nl/index.php/2006/02/01/internet-explorer-70-beta-2/
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
I installed IE7 Beta 2 and experienced problems typing an email in Hotmail. The backspace, delete, and space bar buttons fail to work properly. If I turn of the Rich-Text Editor the problem stops. Only when the editor is enabled this problem occurs. It also affects Yahoo Mail as well. I have since uninstalled IE7 after failing to find any remedy to the problem.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
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February 01, 2006
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Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Hi

I quite like the new explorer but I have a couple of suggestions:

the ability to force new windows to open up in a new tab rather than a new window.

the ability to search simply by typing rather than ising Ctrl F (see mozilla)

Thanks
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Why can't Microsoft implement the latest web standards? You can add the latest fad of tabs, but you cannot make your browser work with standard CSS. We web developers have to jump through hoops to make our pages work in your browser because it is non-standard in its rendering.
You have a lot of smart people working for your company and a rediculous amount of cash in the bank, so why not do it right?
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
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Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Why is the address bar locked to the top?
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Got excited after hearing it was released and tried it on my system at work.

-Had to roll back immediately using System Restore - no uninstall option from Add/Remove Programs.

-No apparent option to use both IE6 and 7 at the same time for testing.

-Does not work with Siebel 7.

-User interface is counter-intuitive. Learning curve is required to adjust.

-Popup baloons are VERY annoying.

x64 system at home. Will wait for Vista public release before trying it again.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
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Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Apparantly streaming audio and video doesn't work anymore.

Try a radio station like:
http://tuner1.dc1.sonixtream.com/solon/media/tuner/Tuner?aff=fmtalki&useSame=true&type=IE
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
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Anonymous
February 01, 2006
please re-add the 'show blocked popup' feature that was available in XP SP-2 beta's. this was an awesome feature, and very necessary.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
I have installed it under windows XP tablet edition on my Gateway Laptop fine. When I attempted to install it on my main machine, I got a few errors in the two associated log files:

17.406: Registering Uninstall Program for -> ie7bet2p, ie7bet2p , 0x0
17.469: Unable to get File Version
17.469: Failed to copy spupdsvc.exe to system32
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00:27.765: INFO: Process 'update.exe /quiet /norestart /er /log:C:WINDOWS' exited with exit code 61453
00:27.765: ERROR: |Inst. IE >>> Internet Explorer installation completed with errors, exitresult=0x00000000, exitcode=0x0000f00d
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No clue what caused these errors. I tried repairing the .net framework 2.0 and disabling every posible non-essential service before running the install without any luck.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
@Mike: "There should be something that allows me to continue to that site without the warning."

If you trust the certificate, you can tell IE to that you trust the certificate. One of our MVPs did a nice writeup: "http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2006/01/31/82198.aspx"

Why we don't just let you add the site to the Trusted Zone to bypass the warning?

Say you trust your bank, and put it in the Trusted zone. Then say a hacker tried to attack your secure connection to your bank using a bogus certificate. If we didn't warn you that the cert was bogus, you'd get robbed!
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Has some problems,while loading up newsburst the columns run together,also as posted in some of the above it will bring up firefox?
Guys it is a good start but needs work,I'll have to stay with firefox until you work it out.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
File, Edit, View . . etc needs to be on top, an option to drop the tabs to the bottom would be nice since I am used to going down there to flip from window to window already. Like the idea of the plus on the open new tab button, and love that when you open a new tab it is blank and doesn't work like open new window in IE6 does. The option to use the classic interface would be great since I have XP pretty much reverted to the classic windows look (Dam change is hard!) Would also like to see that right clicking on the close (The normal close button in the upper right corner that is) will close the open tab.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Cannot access online banking. Banks do not recognize this browser. Have seen this posted in many blogs and the same was true for me after installing. Had to remove for this reason. Bummer!
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
First off, I admire the effort to put tabs into the browser. I really don't like any browser that dosen't support tabbed browsing. However, my wife disagrees and needs a simple button to turn off tabbed browsing.

Quick view on the tabs is great. Love this feature.

The interface is a mess and hard to learn and my wife will not ever put in the effort. An absolute dealbreaker. Why not have a fully customizable interface. The Classic menu needs to be at the top. Other browsing options such as back, foward, stop, reload, home, and refresh should be grouped together. Again, not a problem if we could drag and drop to set up the interface.

We need the option to display text with icons (parents aren't great with small icons).

The tabs needs to have their own full row available at the bottom. The way it's set up now is too cluttered. If space is the issue, a shortcut to alternate quickly between full sreen mode and normal mode will solve the problem.

Need an option to automatically open links in a new tab.

The Favorites are hard to use. Firefox does it better as does Safari on Mac.

Make the Browser completely standards compliant.

These things are important. I hope you can implement these changes. Keep up the good work.

Regards,
Ralph
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
The Sanskrit on my site looks terrible yet. Since IE3 I cannot recommend IE to view the Sanskrit characters properly. Hopefully I will with the final release of IE7 without resorting to Unicode Sanskrit fonts, which can "only" be seen on Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
To be honest, I like most of the new features and the new look. However, we need options/preferences to make it "our own". I like to really shorten the address bar and move the search bar too. Then we could possibly move the new home, RSS, print toolbar onto the very top also just right of the new search bar. Then we'd have almost an entire row for TABS. Otherwise I love it...Keep up the good work.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Hi i like the feel of IE7.
can we have the option to rearange all the toolbars please ?

Also it would be good to have the option of pop up's appearing in a new tab
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
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Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Genuine Advantage doesn't work on WINE usually, so that forces me to use Windoze only.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
I'd just like to say how impressed I am with IE7. I understand it's only a Beta 2 but the design is brilliant.
I've just gladly returned to Windows after 12 months of using Linux only. Firefox made IE6 look dated, but IE7 now makes Firefox look dated.
The clean modern design is a winner. A breath of fresh air after the lines of boring rectangular toolbars. Which you can have in IE7 if you want. It's great to have the choice.
So far I've not experienced any problems, but will provide feedback if I do.
IE 7 loads a lot faster than Firefox.
Just one issue;
the option to view and edit the log-ins / passwords IE saves and to protect the file with a strong password / encryption would be a welcome addition
Otherwise full marks.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
i just want to know why ftp: dosent work in the browser any more?!?!!
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Oh yeah.. the fixed address bar and tabs are quite annoying.. and it keeps forgetting my changes to the other bits anyway.. i click fix and the all move about not how i set them.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
would like to see a feature in IE7, where while browsing a page one could select some text from the page, then right click SEARCH . This would then run a search against your default search engine, msn lycos google etc & open up the results of that search in a new tab.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Installing IE7 broke my banking software, StarMoney 5.0. I feel you should contact them and work the issue out, since this is certainly the most popular banking software in Germany, so quite a large user base. Might also be worth figuring out what the problem is (StarMoney is hosting the rendering stuff) since other software might suffer from it too.
Anonymous
February 01, 2006
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February 01, 2006
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Anonymous
February 01, 2006
PingBack from http://lotsofbricks.com/uncategorized/2006/02/02/ie-70-beta-2-is-now-available.html
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
Follow standards, IE causes nothing but problems with being a web developer.
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
When IE7 beta 2 is installed, the Flight simulator 2004 stops loading at all. And also I realised that outlook 2003 will not send or recieve messages, or at least it will not finish the operation. These as far the only two programs that had problems when I installed IE7, and I will keep testing. Any help with these programs??
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
I normally use Pluck but would like to switch to IE7's RSS. Pluck does a nice job of showing all of your feed headlines at once. This saves the pain of having to click on each feed to read each headline. To me, this is a must have feature.
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
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Anonymous
February 02, 2006
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February 02, 2006
My company uses skinning on IE to differentiate between various IE sessions running under different user contexts (for testing purposes only). We have been testing our sites with IE7, but our old skinning techniques no longer work.

Can we skin IE7 with our own custom bitmaps?
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
When I type 'My Computer' in the address bar, it creates a new window IN THE USER CONTEXT OF THE DESKTOP not the user context of the IEXPLORE.exe process.

This is different from how IE6 behaved and has an impact on how my company use and test our programs.

We are not as concerned that there is a new window created, but we need the user context to remain the same.

Or, perhaps this change is not a bug, but a security design change?

Thanks, Rovert Prohaska
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February 02, 2006
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Anonymous
February 02, 2006
Re-ordering tabs would be really nice!

How about making the Favorites icon, the white star with the orange backgrond, "sparkle" subtly when feeds have new content?

:-)

Thanks.
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
Unless I'm mistaken, I can't find the ability to search a page of HTML (i.e. View menu -> Find..). Am i overlooking somehing?

It would be nice if IE 7 stopped interpreting proprietary HTML tags and attributes and stuck to the W3C's standards. Any chance of that?

Joe
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
Hey out there I took IE7 off my computer it really messed up my Mcafee Security Center. I am not going out to the net without Mcafee.
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
I love it. Tabbed browsing- now I have two choice (firefox and ie7).

I am having to adjust to the different locations of the icons on the toolbar. I like having multiple home pages. Really like that each opens in a tab when I open the browser.

I have used it now for two days.
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
Found a rendering issue with the label element in IE 7. Read more here:
http://www.bogglethemind.com/index.php?itemid=14
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
When multiple home tabs are set you can't click the home button to revert back to each original home page. Instead clicking home brings up a fresh set of tabs. So if you have 4 home tabs set all of a sudden you're looking at 8 tabs. This feature is annoying. Clicking home should refresh, ideally, just one tab and make that the actively viewed tab on the page.

Also in yahoo mail the backspace button doesn't delete. It simply moves the cursor back and when you begin to type everthing now after the cursor gets erased. Not cool.
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
Since installing ie7, I keep getting a program (with my firewall, zonealarm) trying to run a DLL and hit the the internet. Does ie7 try to connect in the background using rundll or something?
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
According to Microsoft-Watch, there's been a more-than-usual report of issues with the Beta 2 Preview...
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
PingBack from http://pjose.wordpress.com/2006/02/02/ie7-beta-bug/
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
Firefox is still better in whole world! do not try to copy paste FF features
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
I have tried to import opml files without success. I have tried to import a single opml (feed) file and a file that contains multiple feeds. When I run the import wizard, it does not import any feed at the end of the exercise. It says "no feeds were imported." Is there any special thing to do to make it work or do I have to import all my feeds by going to every one of those sites to add them?
Thanks.
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
Hello,
After to install IE7 beta 2, I cannot open history of messages pages in MSN Messenger.
Thanks
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
If you want feedback, let me run the beta!

Work PC: Laptop with genuine copy of Windows XP that Genuine Disadvantage won't let me install on because I was in a hurry when I installed Windows and didn't have time to spend looking for the license key.

Home PC: Gentoo Linux x64 edition, VMware Workstation. It won't let me use my Windows XP Home virtual machine because I bought a new CPU (naughty me), so now I have a copy of XP Pro 64 edition supplied by work. Guess what - IE7 beta not availabled for 64 bit.

Once again, I'll give up trying to like a Microsoft product. I have a 64-bit operating system, a browser that comes with source code so I can actually compile and run the thing, and I don't have to get on my hands and knees to look at a sticker on the back of my PC when I install software.

If my website visitors ask me why my site doesn't work in IE, I'll tell them why, and suggest they install Firefox.
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
I'd be nice to see something like the "Download Statusbar" extension thats available for Firefox would be nice. I find it annoying to have downloads pop-up in another window.
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
There's certainly a lot of feedback coming in on our preview of beta 2 of IE7. See the post at http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/01/31/520817.aspx&nbsp;for...
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
Rovert, you say:

"When I type 'My Computer' in the address bar, it creates a new window IN THE USER CONTEXT OF THE DESKTOP not the user context of the IEXPLORE.exe process.

"This is different from how IE6 behaved and has an impact on how my company use and test our programs.

"We are not as concerned that there is a new window created, but we need the user context to remain the same.

"Or, perhaps this change is not a bug, but a security design change?

Yes, this is a security design change for Explorer.exe and Iexplore.exe. You will find if you are browsing your hard drive and type in a URL, that you will get a new IE window as well.

- Al Billings [MSFT]
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February 02, 2006
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Anonymous
February 02, 2006
Mike Simon,

Do you have any RSS feeds saved? The RSS aggregator runs independent of the browser so it may be polling your feeds.

- Al Billings [MSFT]
Anonymous
February 02, 2006
Here are just the critical problems we've found while testing QuickBooks Online Edition with IE7 Beta 2:

1) POSTs now retry? Also after 30 seconds? This is so bad that I have to believe it's just a bug. Until this is fixed we have completely disabled IE 7 access from our production environment.

2) The retry timeout for GETs appears to have been reduced to 30 seconds. This will prove to be quite troublesome. Luckily we already have server-side code to deal with this.

3) Modal dialog's window dot dialogWidth/Height properties are wrong if the dialog was created with values smaller than the (new in IE7) dialog size. These properties retain the values that were passed into the create call even though the dialog window is larger.

4) Modal dialogs generate two on-load events. The second appears to be fired after the address and status bars are re-added to the dialog.

5) Sometimes timeouts generate an error page, sometimes an empty page is synthesized.
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February 02, 2006
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February 02, 2006
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Anonymous
February 02, 2006
I installed IE7 and now XP will not startup. It just stays at the loading page. I can start in safe mode so I uninstalled IE7 but it still will not start. Reinstalled..no luck. HELP!
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February 02, 2006
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Anonymous
February 02, 2006
two reasons why i prefer opera over ie:

1. mouse-guestures
2. instant forward/backward without reloading the page

add these two as an option and i'd have a reason to switch...
everything else seems to be addressed by ie7... good job!
Anonymous
February 03, 2006
I strongly agree to put genuine advantage into INSTALLERS :) Buy software, because alot of people work for that, and they must be paid!
Anonymous
February 03, 2006
While I'm sure you guys don't need advice on how to gain or recapture market share I have a question about UI adoption and reclaiming the users that have been using FireFox exclusively for the last while.

Question:

How much thought/emphasis is being put on creating the (option) to display things as users have gotten used to in other browsers?

Example:

When using FireFox I reach to the far right to close my tabs. If I now switch to IE7 I find myself 'trying' the to do the same but I then have to move over to the tab to close it.

If people have to learn new habits all over it's going to be harder to convert them I would think.

Just my 2 cents.
Shane / www.graphicalwonder.com
Anonymous
February 03, 2006
Hello,
nice IE - i liked it!
But MSN Messenger can't connect when I inntalled it??!
I need MSN Messenger - help!!
Anonymous
February 03, 2006
It would be awesome if Live Favorites were natively supported by IE7.
Anonymous
February 03, 2006
Al Billings,

Yeah, I have a few. That's probably what it is. I just hate allowing rundll access to the internet because it's just an invitation for hackers to use a secondary dll like that (which doesn't really identify the caller) to do whatever it wants with that connection. Any way you guys could work out a more centralized way for the app to access the net?

Another interesting problem I've encountered is this one:

if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalBrowserRead");}

It's breaking on the "netscape.security..." because I was formerly using window.XMLHttpRequest as an identifier for non ms browsers because netscape/mozilla has some trouble with allowing ajax calls in some situations.

I'm posting this because although I'm sure that everyone is aware that that the new ie7 is using window.XMLHttpRequest, this should serve as a reminder to them to make sure they're not using it as an identifier for other browsers.

Looks like I'll have to go back to using document.all vs. document.layers :)
Anonymous
February 03, 2006
This page (http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/kungfufightinglyrics.html) defeated the popup blocker.

I like the popup blocker function, but somehow they're able to get by it (with several windows).
Anonymous
February 03, 2006
In testing the IE7 beta 2, I was terribly disapointed to find IE7 still does not implement addEventListener or removeEventListener element methods for binding event listener functions or the W3C DOM2 event object. Microsoft contributed to writing the corresponding W3C DOM level 2 standard seven years ago and needs to finally implement it.
Anonymous
February 03, 2006
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February 03, 2006
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Anonymous
February 03, 2006
I have been using the Beta 2 Preview since it was released and i think its great

Well done guys
Anonymous
February 03, 2006
One more thing...we need to be able to right click the Favorites and choose "Sort by Name".
Anonymous
February 03, 2006
IE7 lost the top of monitor screen tool bar

IE7 blocks JUNO
Anonymous
February 03, 2006
I've been having a look at IR7 and at the risk of repeating the comments from others I would like to make the following points:

I'm not sure I like where the favorites and add to favorites buttoms are. They look out of place and I think should be moved to the right of the tabs. What I do like is that when you click on favorites it opens up almost like a menu and disappears when you select the favorite you want to go to. Much better than the previous way Favorites were handled.

2. I don't like where the Classic Menu sits. Surely for consistentcy it should sit above the address bar (as in every other Wondows program I know). I'm a creature of habit and I expect the menu to be just below the title bar at the top.

Ok. I haven't used IE7 long enough to come up with anything more useful but I do have a request. Having looked in the help file (which clearly has not been completed yet as I see things like "[step1} and "[step2]") I was looking for how to use the zoom on a particular part of the webpage. I can't find in the menu so am I missing something?
Anonymous
February 03, 2006
Just want to echo most of these comments about customizing IE toolbars, address bar. Also, and this is a biggie to most of us, WHERE is the EMAIL button/icon??? Can't understand this one at all?
Anonymous
February 03, 2006
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Anonymous
February 04, 2006
You know what? I was just helping my daughter with her AOL account and a followed a link for AOL Explorer and downloaded it. I have to say the AOL/IE combo is VERY, VERY well done. Address bar is in a good location, and many other features are well done. Can't some of those ideas be used on IE??? Check it out!!!!
Anonymous
February 04, 2006
Here is the list of Vista December CTP issues so far:
http://www.msvistablog.net/comment.php?comment.news.137
Anonymous
February 04, 2006
Would be nice if you could have it so that it was combined with msn messenger so that when someones online theres an icon or something in the corner, and right clicking on it gives you the options to chat with them etc, so you don't have to have the msn messenger window open all the time.

Also it messed up mcafee security suite. Annoying to say the least
Anonymous
February 04, 2006
Hi,

I haven’t used IE 7 B2p much, but in that short space of time, I’ve been very impressed. I’ll break down the good and bad points I find with the new browser.

The GUI is certainly different, and I’m 50 / 50 on it at the moment. It's compact, which is good (more space for the main web page content) but splitting the back / forward and reload / stop buttons is quite annoying for me, as I did like the ability to quickly go back and forward and reload any given pages as need with the mouse. The stop button is one I never use personally, and could do without it. Having the top menu appear below the address bar when called on is a downside for me too, as it just seems out of place where it is, although hiding it is handy (again for space), when calling it back, I’d prefer it at the top, as its out of the way while still being accessible, and it seems you don’t allow moving around the browser buttons at the moment (which I hope you do) so I can’t alter that. Also, Adobe SVG viewer use the alt button to bring up a ‘grab hand’ to grab an SVG image with the mouse, which of course now causes the top menu to pop up in and out.

The tabs are great, although are slow to open a blank tab after pressing the button. The quick tabs feature is excellent, although being able to organise the order of the tabs from this page would be a really nice addition. The way you work with too many tabs on the tab tool bar is also great, limiting how many can be seen, although I wouldn’t mind seeing tabs which have custom icons (from the web site) shrink to just their icon, rather than also showing part of the title, so more tabs can be shown in the same space, while being easily identifiable by their icon, as their titles are redundant to me if the page title is also in the main browser title bar. If you were to implement such a thing, then allowing me (the user) to pop the tabs to the left (down the side) rather than above would also be welcome (again, just a personal preference, which may not be for everyone).

The print preview looks great, so nice work there. I’m not sure how well it works with web site CSS print style sheets; but I’ll look at it later in some depth

The full screen mode seems fine to me, and the way the top menu disappears and reappears is a great addition.

The zoom feature is fantastic, and the default 125%, 150% then back to 100% is really good.

The RSS feed reader is also fantastic, and I can easily see myself using this as a main feed reader, although, I would find the ability to show / hide the right side menu a great addition, as when zooming in, it can cover the content (even more so for me as I’m on an 800 x 600 res, which doesn’t leave much room anyway, but my eyes are what they are). Also, as it apparently lets the web author apply style sheets, so a toggle to turn them on / off would be nice also, just in case the author chose styles which make the content hard to read. Finally, a toggle to show / hide the content of each feed entry would be nice, such as a plus / minus icon beside each heading, to save space and make picking the particular entry you want to read easier. It would also be nice to be able to click on the feed within the Favourite Centre, and have it expand to show the heading of each feed entry (in the same way the favourite folders expand to list the sites contained), rather than just load the feed fully. Also when using the favourite centre, under the feed section, the delete button reads "Delete this from Favorites" when mouse'd over, rather than perhaps "Delete this from Feeds"?

It seems FTP no longer works, as when trying to FTP like I did a couple of hours ago in IE 6, I just get an 'Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage' page.

Finally, maybe unrelated, (but I believe Eric Lawrence made the Fiddler tool so he maybe interested), after installing the preview, and opening up Fiddler, Fiddler prompted me that an update was available. Clicking on the link opened Firefox as expected (my default browser), but after downloading and installing it, it opened up IE 7 in a new window for the welcome / thank you page, as opposed to a) opening said page in my default browser b) opening up said page in the current IE window in a new tab.

Again, this is just a personal opinion of what I’ve seen and how I’ve used the current preview. All in all, I'm impressed, and liking what I've seen so far. Keep up the good work.

Regards,

- Chris H
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February 04, 2006
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Anonymous
February 05, 2006
please change that toolbar goes above the address bar it is very enoying
Anonymous
February 05, 2006
Please,ust please,add this,and i'll love IE forever

-Merge separate windows into tabs
-Download manager

And please if u need more time to comply with CSS 2.1 standards ,we won't be mad,i can assure you,just make a godlike browser please
Anonymous
February 05, 2006
add resume download too,and go ahead of the FF team! :)
Anonymous
February 05, 2006
this page doesen't load in IE7

http://www.fenalco.com.co/intranet
Anonymous
February 05, 2006
-Resume Download would be very convenient: it would make IE7 a far better browser than what FireFox could ever achieve.
-I've been having trouble viewing MSNVideo with IE7 B2. The animations don't load and http://nightly.msnbc.com videos don't load - they only show the advertisement.
-IE7 won't let me change my settings on my Internet Options even though I'm the Administrator.
Anonymous
February 05, 2006
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Anonymous
February 05, 2006
I am going to uninstall IE7 now. it is not flexible and lack of features and especially, that menu and address bar really need to be fixed, otherwise, noone gonna use it.
Anonymous
February 06, 2006
I have just installed the beta release of IE7. The FTP service which used to work is no longer available.

Do I have to change settings?

rgds
Anonymous
February 06, 2006
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Anonymous
February 06, 2006
Please allow middle-clicking the home button to open in a new tab, thanks!
Anonymous
February 06, 2006
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February 06, 2006
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Anonymous
February 06, 2006
I have play with IE 7 and love the way of design and there few thing need to add. One- New Tab I would like add home page everytime I click new tab. I haven't find a way to adjust this. Second- I do not want have a search on my bar- how can I get it off? Because I already have search engine on my home page anyway. Oh I almost forgot that there no sort for my favorite folder to make A B C order to make thing easier for me search for specific website address. Those IE 7 are near to prefection. Nice Job.
Anonymous
February 06, 2006
Please add "Pause" button to download dialog (code functionality too :-D)
Anonymous
February 06, 2006
Every morning I turn my computer on, fire up firefox, open my favourites and choose my startup folder and select "Open in tabs" this opens all the web pages within this favourites folder up in their own tab and gets me started for the morning, I can check all my "Favourite" websites out from there, I need this feature!! please can you implement this :-)
Anonymous
February 06, 2006
When I used IE7 to access Windows Update it either closed itself automatically or went into bug report mode (which would also close the window too).
Anonymous
February 07, 2006
This may or may not belong here, but I couldn't find a better place to ask...
Was it just me, or did IE7 take a huge toll on system resources? I specifically noticed this, not in IE itself, but in gaming (specifically World of Warcraft, among others).
I could play several games just fine when I had IE6 installed. After installing IE7 and rebooting, there was enough drag on the system that several games froze for about a half second every 4 or 5 seconds. Even without any IE windows open- merely having 7 installed seemed to drag me down significantly. I tried several things to optimize my system, but the only thing that worked was going back to IE6 (and I'm running an Athlon64 3400 with a gig of ram, so it's not like I'm playing on an antique or anything).
I'm afraid I don't have hard numbers to back anything up, as I was in a hurry when I decided to try removing 7, but when it was installed, several games were virtually unplayable, due to the slow frame rates and general system drag that IE apparently caused.
I realize that this was a beta, but any idea if the final release will exhibit the same behavior? If so, I'd imagine a lot of the gaming crowd won't be installing...
Anonymous
February 07, 2006
Improve the Javascript engine and memory leaks.
Fix bug like:
- Dynamic radiobutton 'name' change doesnt reflect to the radiogroup
- Radiobutton must have a name attribute
- Remove javascript property's from the 'attributes' property of an element, they arent attributes, but propertys!
- Give an attributeNode a context (the element, parentNode), it's handy when you have an attributeNode which needs to be removed.
- And a lot more know Javascript related problems!
Anonymous
February 07, 2006
Are any of the IE developers checking QuirksMode (http://www.quirksmode.org/) for "bugs" with IE7 and site layout?

This site attracts the attention of a lot of web developers, and there are a number of layout bugs reported.

There's a recent article by the site author, who worked through all of the "bugs" known for IE5 and IE6. Of those, 58 still exist in IE7.

Perhaps a PM can work with the site author, and can classify these items in order of severity (ugliest and/or most prevalent first). This would be seen as a Very Good Thing (TM) by the web developer community.
Anonymous
February 07, 2006
I had to uninstall the IE7 preview in order to access Quickbooks Online. Now IE6 runs "normally" - except that any Internet shortcuts, even web addresses that I type directly into IE6 - now open directly in Mozilla Firefox.

I have IE6 set to check to see if it's the default browser, and have used the Program Access and Defaults tool to specify all Microsoft - but nothing is working.
Anonymous
February 07, 2006
Every time i try to go to a new website the dialer keeps popping up i dont know what could be causing this but please let me know if there is some setting i need to change. It keeps popping up and when i click connect it comes right back. When i clicked connect automatically it popped up and went away so many times it cause IE& to crash and shut down. Thanks for any help
Anonymous
February 07, 2006
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Anonymous
February 07, 2006
http://www.fiddlertool.com/useragent.aspx
Spoof IE6 for htose sites that think you are using "an older browser"
Anonymous
February 07, 2006
i have a problem with Nortons Liveupdate Feature, Since Installing ie7 it no longer connects, it just says connecting, also automatic liveupdate no longer works, and when i have ie set to connect, it tells me to connect when i am already connected, and if i tell it not to it asks me to connect or work offline alot.
Anonymous
February 07, 2006
I cannot add my internal internet development site to the popup blocker's 'allow' list. Could you change the regular expression it uses to validate site names to accomodate this?

i.e. http://dev1server is NOT a valid entry for the popup blocker in IE7b2. It won't allow me to enter it...
Anonymous
February 07, 2006
IE is using 99% of my system resources...@@
Anonymous
February 08, 2006
Like so many others here, what is up with the uninstaller for IE7b1? Running IE6 at home, last night installed IE7b1p with no problems. Still evaluating. Got to work and tried to installe IE7b2p and was told to uninstall IE7b1. Only "remove" button shows and that just removes the listing - no uninstall option. Until IE7b1 is gone, can't install IE7b1p to test. Has anybody been successful in getting past this hurdle?
Anonymous
February 08, 2006
All of the sudden, the "Tools" icon is gone from the shortcut items from the right side of IE7b2p. Without that icon, nothing can be changed, can't even lock/unlock the toolbars. Ideas on how to bring it back?
Anonymous
February 08, 2006
anyone been on http://www.download.com/ with ie7 yet? you get a bit if header and footer and thats it lol its absolutely mashed ... works fine on firefox.. and ie 6!!!
I've been told that downloads follow some fairly stringent web standards.

Someones done a big c**kup here.
Anonymous
February 08, 2006
I cannot download anything through IE7b2. I get the "IE was not able to open the internet site The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found." error. I have tried on a sharepoint site and a standard http download link. I can still download from tested site in FireFox and could with IE6.
Anonymous
February 08, 2006
Beta 1 installed just fine. I deinstalled beta1 after there problems with some key websites at work.

I have not been able to install IE7B2. I have combed the MS forum and found several identicle issues. I have
1. reviewed the updspapi.log file and changed the permissions on the .tif and .tiff keys. This got rid of the msfeeds.dll error.
2. I then updated the permissions on the .hta key since it was indicated as an error in the updspapi.log file
Now I just get an error saying the installation cannot complete.

I am stumped. Here is the end of the ie7bet2p.log file entry. Any ideas

pat.dailey@hp.com.

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LoadFileQueues: UpdSpGetSourceFileLocation for halacpi.dll failed: 0xe0000102
16.614: Num Ticks for Backup : 2874
16.734: ArchiveRegistrySettings: ArchiveRegistryNode failed
16.734: DoInstallation: ArchiveRegistrySettings failed
19.118: DeRegistering the Uninstall Program -> ie7bet2p, 2
19.118: Internet Explorer 7 Setup canceled.
19.118: Update.exe extended error code = 0xf00d
Anonymous
February 08, 2006
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Anonymous
February 08, 2006
Having tried IE7 beta for a week or so, despite its many excellent features, I have decided to uninstall it for now. It broke too many things I use regularly including:

1. Help and support center search unable to access MS knowledge base, some other links in Help and support were broken.

2. Cookies folder, instead of containing cookies.txt files had same contents as my user nametemporary internet files folder. Also, the same files appeared in the cookies and temporary internet filescontents.IE5 folders of LocalService and NetworkService accounts. Clearing index.dat file with CCleaner or index.dat suite also deleted the saved cookies.(I have reported this by email, receipt acknowledged)

3. Although possibly not the fault of IE7 directly, the WYSIWYG message editors on at least two user forums that I use were broken (
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/ and http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/)

I did find the tabbing, feed reader and other features very nice and look forward to trying the next version, in the hope that the above bugs will have been fixed. In the meantime, I will use IE based tabbed browsers such as Deepnet Explorer (includes a rss feed reader, antiphishing, etc.) or Slimbrowser (good tabbing).
Anonymous
February 08, 2006
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February 08, 2006
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Anonymous
February 08, 2006
Using IE beta 2 whilst administering any SharePoint site is proving to be impossible.

To reproduce they the following:
On a site swap to edit mode go to ‘Modify Shared Page’;
Select ‘add web parts’;
Select ‘Browse’
The browser now sits there waiting for around 10-15 seconds.
The window then goes white and the tab changes to “loading” and the status bar says “web site found, waiting for reply…”
After a further 10-15 seconds you get the new white “You page could not be displayed”

Also the MS Partner Portal does not function at all with beta-2

These all work fine under IE6 and IE7-beta1
Anonymous
February 09, 2006
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Anonymous
February 09, 2006
It would be nice to hit the print button and not be prompted for printer selection.

Perhaps there is a way for me to change this?
Anonymous
February 09, 2006
@Kennalyn

If you want this feature, fine, but I would ask the IE team that this NOT be the default! I have seen more wasted paper in my lifetime from the print button in MS Word than any other application.

User: "It didn't print, so I clicked it again."
(meanwhile another printer is whipping out extra copies RLC)

Personally, I have NEVER wanted to directly print something, without (A) a print preview, and (B) printer selection/options.

BTW: NEVER = 16 years and counting.
Anonymous
February 09, 2006
Iuse Opera 9. it is ten times better. IE looks more professional, and cleaner, but lacks some obvious featers!!
Anonymous
February 09, 2006
I have a web application that runs overs HTTPS, and uses Javascript to provide a rich text editor to users. Invariably, IE7 displays:

This page contains both secure and non secure items. Do you want to display the non secure items ?

This is very annoying because this message is displayed each time the page loads. Could it be a yellow message on top of the web page instead?
Anonymous
February 09, 2006
<label for=""> does not work if there is only image within label tag.
Anonymous
February 10, 2006
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Anonymous
February 10, 2006
I use xp sp2

The installation crash when it reach 49%, missing file: msfeeds.dll

is it possible to get a copy of the missing file.
Anonymous
February 10, 2006
Kim,

This problem is discussed in our FAQ post at http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/01/31/521344.aspx. That should help you solve this issue.

- Al Billings [MSFT]
Anonymous
February 10, 2006
Does not work on Linux at all because of a few ver nice "features", sorry, but I'll ignore IE7 when developing websites.
Anonymous
February 11, 2006
As I read a lot of posts on this blog the only thing left to say from my point of view is:

If a billion dollar company with a quasi-monopoly isn't able to release a standards compliant program after having spent years of research since the last major update, this only means it isn't willing to do so.
Anonymous
February 11, 2006
My second post here with a small suggestion, I notice that when clicking on a http link in a e-mail or document, (Outlook or Word), it open a second Internet Explorer program insteed of opening a second tab in the already open session.

Nothing else to complain about so far!!!
Anonymous
February 11, 2006
It still can't work with DOM standards since 1998. It still can't work with xhtml. It still can't do CSS2.1 properly and it will never be as good as Firefox/Opera/Safari.
Anonymous
February 11, 2006
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=微软 <- ok
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=小微软 <- the last character is lost
Anonymous
February 12, 2006
Desktop and Graphics heavily pixelated. Icons within a window, fine. Uninstalled IE7 Beta 2 and works beautifilly again.
Anonymous
February 12, 2006
Have been using IE7b2 for about 12 days now. Its been a good experience. there are a couple of things that the team may like to add....
1) Some way of knowing at the taskbar about the number of tabs in the window already open.
2) some coloration for every new tab, it really makes it easy to read and click on the rt tab
3) the current fonts and backgrounds make it difficult to read the title of the tab. Can we do something about it.
4) The Menu bar is lower than the address bar, it is inconvenient, at least to old computer users.
5) The icons are unclear at least for refresh, back and forward. they should really be together.
6) Some more tab options, like force opening of new windows to be converted to open in new tabs kind....
Please look into it.
Best! AG
Anonymous
February 12, 2006
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Anonymous
February 12, 2006
The New Tab button needs to be static on the screen. Having the position of a user interface element shift and slide around the browser depending on how many tabs a user happens to have open at any one time is inadvisable. Users look for consistency; look at all the requests for the classic menu bar to be back up at the top where they are used to it being. Same with the New Tab button, except instead of adjusting to a new position once (as with the classic menu bar when moving from IE6 to IE7), you're now forcing the user to adjust to a new position every time he opens a new tab, dozens, or perhaps hundreds of times per day.
Anonymous
February 13, 2006
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February 13, 2006
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Anonymous
February 13, 2006
Can you make a configuration option so that I can always open clicked links in new tabs or new windows (my choice).

Thanks.
Anonymous
February 13, 2006
all links with anchor "#abc" is broken in chm.
e.g.: mk:@MSITStore:E:Inet.Chm::/workshop/author/access/accessibility.htm#acc_elements
Anonymous
February 13, 2006
all external img is displaying correctly but its urls is shown in "blocked" list, while none of them send any cookies.
Anonymous
February 14, 2006
Regarding the comment from Steve above:

"
Using IE beta 2 whilst administering any SharePoint site is proving to be impossible.

To reproduce they the following:
On a site swap to edit mode go to ‘Modify Shared Page’;
Select ‘add web parts’;
Select ‘Browse’
The browser now sits there waiting for around 10-15 seconds.
The window then goes white and the tab changes to “loading” and the status bar says “web site found, waiting for reply…”
After a further 10-15 seconds you get the new white “You page could not be displayed”
"

I am experiencing exactly this behaviour. However, in my case each delay is 30 seconds. I consistently get the "Page cannot be displayed" error after almost exactly one minute.

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Other than that, I am enjoying the new browser a lot.

Nick
Anonymous
February 14, 2006
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Anonymous
February 15, 2006
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February 15, 2006
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Anonymous
February 15, 2006
The document.createElement() method has the same bug as in previous versions.

I know, this is a beta, so I hope will be fix before the final release.
Anonymous
February 16, 2006
@ZERO: Not that I don't doubt you (gosh knows there are a wee number o bugs in IE6), but what is the bug in document.createElement();?

Just wondering if it explains some of my development pains!

Thanks.
Anonymous
February 16, 2006
This Beta will not allow my send/receive to bring in my mail...and it's slow also....
Anonymous
February 16, 2006
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Anonymous
February 16, 2006
We received reports this morning that a security researcher had found a bug in the IE7 Beta 2 Preview...
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March 03, 2006
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March 21, 2006
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Anonymous
April 25, 2006
Pessoal,
a Microsoft acaba de liberar para download de todos os interessados, o Internet Explorer 7...
Anonymous
April 25, 2006
Foi anunciada ontem a disponibilidade do Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 para Windows XP. Dito isto encorajamos...
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November 13, 2006
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February 05, 2009
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