IE 7: Beta 2 Preview available!

[CrazyIvan]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/ie7betaredirect.mspx
Thank you for choosing Microsoft and for trying this pre-release software. Everyone on the Internet Explorer team wants to make your web browsing experience safer and easier. We welcome your feedback.

To help you with beta testing, we've provided the resources and checklists below. You may want to print the checklists that apply to you and verify that your websites/applications work with the new Internet Explorer features. Let us know how Internet Explorer 7 is working for you by joining the Internet Explorer 7 newsgroup.

edit: Version 7.0.5296.0. - dated: 1/25/06

[DiscipleDOC]

It looks pretty sweet!

[Superfly]

Yeh I like it - I grabed the leaked installer a few weeks ago.

One thing I dont like is lack of options for how the GUI is laid out.

[OWA]

Thanks for the link. I've been wanting to try it out.

[jAkUp]

(w/opics)

[overheat]

here are your pics
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=15954&d=1138745715here are your pics
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=15955&d=1138745731
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=15956&d=1138745748

[Lfctony]

I prefer Avant browser, lots of features and compatible with everything.

[Nutty]

Yay! I've been using the old Beta1 version for ages.. About time there was an update.. They're taking their bloody time with this...

Btw, is it me or does alot of nV News look like its all in Bold now.. Didn't use to on Beta1, its kinda narking me.

Also, on top level on nvnews forums, its using 94 Meg!! Jesus.. talk about memory hog!

[Mudcrutch]

Awesome

only ONE "issue" i seem to have though. see the BACK & FORWARD buttons?

do they look a little jagged?

besides that everything is working fine.. no text issues, etc.

and its FASSSSSSSSSSSSSSST.

[Nutty]

Heres what I'm talking about. On the left is IE7 Beta 2, on the right is Firefox. Notice how fat n blurry the text in IE7 is.. It wasn't like this in Beta1 or IE6.. :(

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=15963&stc=1&d=1138750060

[Nutty]

Oh apparently its some clear type option. But turning it off doesn't disable it, and it also borks fonts in outlook express.

Way to go MS.. :rolleyes:

[Mudcrutch]

Oh apparently its some clear type option. But turning it off doesn't disable it, and it also borks fonts in outlook express.

Way to go MS.. :rolleyes:

i see none of those issues...

[emailthatguy]

im failing to see how this is any different from aol explorer.

http://emailthatguy.shackspace.com/aolexplorer.jpg

[saturnotaku]

Couple things I noticed. I don't like that the 'x' to close a tab only appears on the active one. I sometimes will switch tabs and close the ones in the background (I do this with an extension for Firefox). Also, and this is an intermittent problem, the 'x' won't appear at all on web pages that have really long titles. Last issue is that on pages that have lots of images, scrolling seems to slow down a bit, like this activity is eating more CPU cycles than in IE6 and Firefox.

[Superfly]

Dont forget to feedback all these comments to Microsoft.

Lets do our bit as they say...........

[Nutty]

Yeah I preferred the X at the side all the time. Much easier to close loads of tabs quickly.

Also clicking loads of links to open new tabs still doesn't update the link color properly every soo often, making it look like you haven't clicked it.

I had a look on the feedback page and the borked fonts are a known issue.

[Mudcrutch]

crap I think I am officially in love ... bear with me here...

regarding tabs get this -- in IE7: Beta 2 go into TOOLS > INTERNET OPTIONS > SETTINGS for tabs and click "let internet explorer decide how pop-ups should open"

this FINALLY addresses a big pet peeve I had with FireFox tabs --

in FF when you force new windows to open in tabs ANY window that opens in a new window gets put in a full tab. this sucked for windows that SHOULD open in a specific size -- for ex: feedback forms, etc.

In IE7 using the setting above puts new windows with no size restraints in a new tab AND when clicking a link that opens a new window with a specific size it opens it in a new window NOT a tab <----- YES

[rewt]

the 'x' won't appear at all on web pages that have really long titles.

I too thought I was experiencing this same issue until I realized I was trying to close the last open tab. Apparently you just can't close the last open tab, as the 'x' doesn't appear and right-click > 'close' is greyed out.

Example of page with really long title;

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/download.htm (right-click this link and select 'Open in New Tab')

[Nutty]

The cross on the tab worked fine for me with that long title page..

[rewt]

Indeed. Now close every other tab but that one and the 'x' disappears.

[Nutty]

Well yeah.. you cant close your last tab, or you'd have a browser with nothing in it.

[rewt]

That's my point.

I too thought I was experiencing this same issue until I realized I was trying to close the last open tab. Apparently you just can't close the last open tab

[OWA]

While I like some of the changes, I'm glad they provided the classic menu. I felt lost without it.

[AthlonXP1800]

I tried IE7 beta 2 last night, it was very good and very nice, I got 2 issues with IE7, it has no menu that I cant find Help menu for About Internet Explorer information and 1 IE7 window used twice the memory of 1 IE6 window used as little as 30Mb. 1 IE7 window with 4 tabs used 70Mb, that lots of memory so I decided to uninstalled it. Hope the memory usuage will go down to IE6 level when it go gold and want to see IE7 have the option to add roll up menu.

[OWA]

You can turn on the classic menu and you'll have the regular items. They're still available even without that though. Just click the tools button on the upper right part of the menu area. The help (about IE, etc.) is under the ? button. Even so, I still turned on the regular menu.

Edit: Oops, I forgot I removed the tools button and one of the others. If the tools button didn't show up, just click the >> on the right side of the menu pane.

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/1082/ie77cj.th.jpg (http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ie77cj.jpg)