IE7 Beta 3 Released!

reese · 06-29-06, 12:45 PM

...and the king takes back his crown!

Download Links \/
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...s/default.mspx

IE7 Homepage (recently updated for beta 3!) \/
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx

Zahc · 06-29-06, 01:08 PM

mmmmm, all looks very familiar as I look at it from my lovely firefox browser. It looks good, I agree, but every low life out there is burning the candle at both ends to be the first to breach it's security, *sigh*

reese · 06-29-06, 01:12 PM

Originally Posted by Zahc

mmmmm, all looks very familiar as I look at it from my lovely firefox browser. It looks good, I agree, but every low life out there is burning the candle at both ends to be the first to breach it's security, *sigh*

Sad but true... Hopefully since Vista is more Security conscience than XP IE7+ may be a little harder to exploit. In the end it is up to the user though. My IE has never been broken.

06-29-06, 01:16 PM

any better than the previous beta? has anyone noticed anything different?

CodeBubba · 06-29-06, 01:20 PM

Originally Posted by reese

...and the king takes back his crown!

Download Links \/
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...s/default.mspx

IE7 Homepage (recently updated for beta 3!) \/
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx

Thanks for the heads-up. I've been using IE7 Beta2 for a few months now and it has been working perfectly for me. They really got it right.

-b

CodeBubba · 06-29-06, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by reese

...and the king takes back his crown!

Download Links \/
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...s/default.mspx

IE7 Homepage (recently updated for beta 3!) \/
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx

Thanks for the heads-up. I've been using IE7 Beta2 for a few months now and it has been working perfectly for me. They really got it right.

-b

CodeBubba · 06-29-06, 01:25 PM

Oops ... hit submit twice on that last post. Moderator ... can you delete the duplicate post and this message?

Thanks...

-CB

06-29-06, 01:31 PM

Great, beta 2 was very buggy with multiple tabs opened

reese · 06-29-06, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by justpaul205

any better than the previous beta? has anyone noticed anything different?

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 is now available for download and includes improvements in reliability, compatibility, user features, and security. Although Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 was layout complete, based on our customers’ feedback, we’ve made some additional changes to the look and feel of the browser.

Beta 3 allows users to add the e-mail button back to the toolbar, enables users to reorder the tabs by dragging them to the left or right, and enables horizontal scrolling while zooming.

To improve the RSS experience, Internet Explorer 7 now allows users to update all their RSS feeds automatically. In addition, the user has more control in marking their RSS feeds as "READ."

Beta 2 testing has helped us improve compatibility with websites and web applications in Beta 3. Internet Explorer 7 reliability has improved in Beta 3 as several layout-rendering bugs have been fixed as well.
In addition, Beta 3 contains all the security fixes addressed in the June Internet Explorer Security Bulletin MS06-021.

jnev · 06-29-06, 02:38 PM

looks to me like a complete blatant rip off of firefox.

reese · 06-29-06, 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by jnev

looks to me like a complete blatant rip off of firefox.

Care to explain...

Note: He is gonna say tabs... I just know it.... Maybe we should tell him that Mozilla didn't invent tabs!

jnev · 06-29-06, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by reese

Care to explain...

Note: He is gonna say tabs... I just know it.... Maybe we should tell him that Mozilla didn't invent tabs!

I'd love to... besides for the tabs (which you so kindly tried to hide from me) there's the rss feeds that IE7 now takes care of for you and the search bar with different search engines of your choosing (though most likely limited because I doubt MS would want you using google). of course, the positioning of everything looks a lot like firefox's.. search bar in the top right, the rss icon, etc. then there's the MS-controlled extentions. I've heard that MS will even charge for some of them.

good enough for you?

EDIT
perhaps you'd like to read the IE7 blog... http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archiv...14/503778.aspx

it talks a bit about collaboration and use of ideas between browsers... though it really is a one-way street in this case.

reese · 06-29-06, 02:55 PM

Originally Posted by jnev

I'd love to... besides for the tabs (which you so kindly tried to hide from me) there's the rss feeds that IE7 now takes care of for you and the search bar with different search engines of your choosing (though most likely limited because I doubt MS would want you using google). of course, the positioning of everything looks a lot like firefox's.. search bar in the top right, the rss icon, etc. then there's the MS-controlled extentions. I've heard that MS will even charge for some of them.

good enough for you?

EDIT
perhaps you'd like to read the IE7 blog... http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archiv...14/503778.aspx

it talks a bit about collaboration and use of ideas between browsers... though it really is a one-way street in this case.

Yep, Firefox did ripoff Maxthon (MyIE2) for IE!

Tabs, Search bar in top right, RSS support... Should I continue?

Fact of the matter is everyone borrows ideas, but Firefox didn't "invent" any of the features you accreditted to them!

jnev · 06-29-06, 03:00 PM

I'm not saying they invented them... I'm saying that as a whole IE7 looks almost identical in features and looks to firefox.

reese · 06-29-06, 03:13 PM

And Firefox looks almost Identical to Maxthon, which looks like opera, which looks like netscape....

They are browsers... they all look the same.