RSSMicrosoft Releases New Beta of IE7
By Ed Oswald | Published June 29, 2006, 1:36 PM
Microsoft said Thursday morning that it had made available the third beta of Internet Explorer 7, the final beta before the browser ships later this year ahead of Windows Vista. Microsoft said that while the second beta was "feature complete," Beta 3 does include some enhancements.
"Throughout the development of Internet Explorer 7 Microsoft has encouraged and listened to customer feedback," a Microsoft spokesperson told BetaNews. "As a result of customer feedback, IE7 Beta 3 contains some feature changes in addition to the planned reliability, compatibility and security improvements."
Minor changes to the user interface have been made including the capability to add an e-mail button to the toolbar, reordering of tabs through drag and drop functionality, and the capability to scroll horizontally while zooming.
Improvements have also been made to the RSS features of the browser, allowing for on-demand updating of RSS feeds and "mark all as read" functionality.
Testing from Beta 2 has resulted in better compatibility with Web sites and Web applications, and several rendering bugs have been fixed, Microsoft said. Additionally, the has implemented all security fixes into IE 7 that were released with this month's Patch Tuesday release.
IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch said that the next steps for Internet Explorer include the Release Candidates which likely will appear over the summer, followed by the official release in the second half of the year.
"I'm looking forward to reading the feedback - positive and negative - as it comes in," he said.
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 can be downloaded from FileForum.
Thanks school1012 i will try that
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|No problem
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|school1012 whats a spoofer?
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|http://msdn.microsoft.co...leasenotes/default.aspx
http://www.fiddlertool.com/useragent.aspx
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|for anyone that uses stamps.com software, i found it doesnt work with IE7
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|I think stamps checks user agent string, and they have not updated their site for IE7, If you use the spoofer it should work
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|Weeeee
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|My interest is in the UI. I found a way to move the Menu Bar to the top. Now I'm looking for a way to make the Command Bar disappear. Most of the functions are found in the Menu Bar anyway. Someone in another forum suggested that removing all the icons will make the Bar go away, but I can't remove the two icons that deal with Favorites. In any case, the icons all come back when IE7 is restarted. I'm using the Classic Windows theme on my machine.
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|How can you move the menu bar to the top? Have not seen this.
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|It's faster baby, and a 1000 bug fixes is nothing to sneeze at. Props to Microsoft for beating out spyware. With 80% of the browser market share switching to IE7, it's going to put a lot of spyware companies out of business.
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|how many years down the road will that be?
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|anyone know if they are going to release a beta 3 to update ie in vista? or will that not be until the next build of vista?
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|The latest build of vista is newer then IE7beta3
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|It certainly launches faster.
It has less latency when navigating and loading new pages too. It’s very noticeable. (And here I though I was having DNS issues...lol)
I noticed changes to the layout and a couple added buttons on the tool bar.
Looks good to me.
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|I hate Microsoft. 10 Mb just waste. I Use firefox
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|Thank you for your absolutely pointless and troll-like comment.
Where would the internet be without people like you?
Probably a whole lot better.
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|You are new and all, but you are 100% a troll. All of your comments thus far have been trolls. Trust me I know.
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|Oh, I trust you to know. :)
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|HAHHAH Totaly agree with you! You really nailed it!!
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|I've lost all confidence in Microsoft. I go to uninstall IE7 Beta 2 and it hangs at "Updating Registry" and my proc usage goes to 99%.
What great code. :)
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|OS X unistall process:
1. drag explorer.app file to trash
2. empty trash
3. celebrate no registry or system hangs with a coke
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|OS X game install process:
1. Wait for a mac version to come out
2. Wait for a mac version to come out
3. Wait for a mac version to come out
4. Say there is more to computers than games
5. Make excuses for performance not living
up to marketing claims.
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|What part of BETA don't you understand?
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|The user posting above and below this text is an idiot.
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|You installed BETA software, on your test box(Mom's computer,) which affects nothing in your organization (Parents Home,) and then instead of letting people know what you observed (nothing but your own ignorance,) did to solve your issue (b1tch,) and what you think caused it (look in the mirror,) you simply post an inflammatory post to cry like a little girl.
Maybe you should take a look at what you just said about "letting others know too when there's an issue," and practice what you preach.
And I'm the "dipwad??? (Who talks like that but a 16yo, or am I over estimating your age?)
Note my other post above (which is time stamped before this post, and your "dipwad," post.) I seem to be doing my part, where's your end?
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|Interesting. Seriously interesting.
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|It's BETA software guy, it's not a finished product. That's why MS does public betas so people like you can have it not uninstall, you tell them about it, they fix it and then when it goes Gold, no one has this problem.
People that complain about BETA software not working are idiots.
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|Please tell me you didn't install BETA software on a machine that was important to you.
You have to expect quirks like this in betas. You DO know what a beta is, right?
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|Alpha software should never be listed as beta, but MS does it all of the time and releases beta as gold.
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|Am I happy that you
1. figured out how to fix your problem,
or
2. that you were so embarrassed by your post that you had to go back and delete the ignorant text and put a mindless, even more ignorant, comment in?
1. Don't really care
2. Yes. How does that Crow taste?
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|http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
(I'm not a regular OSX/Mac user, but I hate to see all the old ripostes still in use in face of new technology)
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|ROFL
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|BINGO!!
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|A lot of people have had trouble uninstalling beta2. Most have had issues with missing vital dll files files afterwards though.
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|oh that was intelligent....
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|you do know that 90% of all new games released since bootcamp have warnings in their faq or on system requirements that directly state that it will not work on bootcamp, which i remind you is still windows running on a mac, so the point still stands that games dont work on a osx weather you look at it as not working on bootcamp or that its still running on windows even if it does work.
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|Lions, Tigers, Bears.........oh my.
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|Cool.
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|Go do something better with your life. Quit wasting it on playing games on your computer.
Deee Duh Deee..... Retard.
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|I think you might be the smartest man alive. Good job and keep up with the GREAT comments.
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|You brought this on yourself.
Stupid is, as stupid does.
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|That's a great idea.
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|Why encourage it?
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|Note to users of IE7 Beta 2:
UNINSTALL BETA 2 BEFORE INSTALLING BETA 3 to avoid complications.
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|Don't forget to back your system up and install a FTP program, as IE7 doesn't work for ftp.
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|It doesn't work for password-protected ftp sites (yet) but anonymous access works fine. For example, I just went to ftp://ftp.leo.org/ in IE7 and it opened right up. I was able to download files, change directories, etc.
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|Seriously: Who uses a browser for FTP anymore?
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|Seeing how it does folder view: Many many many people do!
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|***PLUG*** Filezilla....
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|eh its still a beta
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|ya mean like it *tells* you to when you try to install it on a machine beta 2 is running on?
Thanks. I'd have never figure out what that window telling me to uninstall the previous beta meant. ;)
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|Seriously.
Anyone who doesn't use an FTP client, doesn't know what FTP is for...
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|Seroiusly, all this whining and carping, along with name calling over a beta, get over it , if ou do not understand what a beta is about by now back slowly away from your keyboard, turn youe machine off, and never touch it again.
I am a Microsoft beta tester, and yes I put the betas on my primary machine, and yes there have been crash issues, but if it gets bad enough I just reload the whole machine,(see backup),and report to microsoft what happened.
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|Yeah... sure.
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