Attached Link: IE 7 Beta

Supports tabbed browsing, but then again this is something both Opera and Firefox have had for years now... what else.. looks neater, although you can't arrange the toolbars.. you can load the pages in the tabs to look as if you're looking at thumbnails on a bigger page... what else... it's probably safer than 6. And oh yeah, if you're still using IE, as 90% of you still are, you'll end up using this puppy anyway since it will come with the next Windows.

*** WARNING *** THIS IS A PUBLIC BETA VERSION. IT IS INHERENTLY UNSTABLE AND IT OVERWRITES YOUR OLD INTERNET EXPLORER. YOU ARE ADVISED TO TRY IT ONLY IF YOU DON'T GIVE A RAT'S BEHIND.

Thank you,

Drac

Message edited on: 02/01/2006 12:36

more important.. does it behave better with html tables? and div's with z-index?

umm... it's grey? drac (plus it has new shiney buttons)

I am never going back to the timebomb of INTERNET EXPLODER.

you'll end up using this puppy anyway since it will come with the next Windows.

Which are delayed. And they have to throw something to the mob.

Anyway, this looks like trying to catch up with the competition.

Tabs already seen? Check.

Search Bar already seen? Check.

RSS feeds in browser already seen? Check.

The only thing I don't remember seeing is that thingy about phishing sites. But it's apparently based on "reporting". Ew.

Ray, they are advertising "HTML 4.01 improvements." What, never heard of something called xhtml 1.1?

At first glance, I'm not impressed.

Ah, yes, but they have this really cool flash preview thingie which says "change just got extraordinarily good". That's got to count for something, right? Meh, Microsoft sucks.

As a website builder I try to make my sites show up decently in both IE and firefox. Usually this means that IE is the one acting like a pain in the butt, and once that's working firefox usually behaves properly also. Would be easier if IE would behave better soon.

where do I go to find the back doors, trojan, Virus hooks, spam insertion points, registry hacks, security holes (truck size or smaller), dll renames, cruel web search updates, etc?..;) Isn't 'inherently unstable' and 'Microsoft IE' being redundant?..;)

I don't give a ratz what new version IE comes out with...I'm sticking with my FF.

Anybody know of a good free ad-blocking plugin? Maybe something similar to Adblock for FF? The extensions were what made FF truly cool for me, but now that's the only thing it has going for it.

I'll stick with FF, but thanks! lol PS.. Isn't 'inherently unstable' and 'Microsoft IE' being redundant?..;) ROFL!

Message edited on: 02/02/2006 00:25

Yahoo makes a decent popup blocker...the SP2 version of IE for Windows XP has a popup blocker. You can also install Ad-Aware and Spybot. Actually, I'm glad the beta version is out. I'm forced to use IE for work (a number of work-related sites just break), and at least now I can have my tabs. Makes it so much more efficient to work with. :)

I've tried it and it's crap. Utter crap, I tell you. Damn scum re-installs Windows Messenger, although I had deinstalled it. Tabs are of that awful FF/Mozilla/Netscape variety where you cannot decide globally whether to open pages in tabs or in windows, but only on case by case basis. See Opera, people. And the order of tabbing through them appears to be only from the first-opened to the last opened. Again, see Opera. The anti-phishing filter contacts Microsoft where it rootles in a list of reported phishing sites. I waited for five minutes for Microsoft.com to check whether Microsoft.com is a reported phishing site, got fed up and stopped it. Since they write such things down, I didn't want to try with another site, in case of snafus. The advertised Page Zoom is broken because by increasing the size of the page, the content goes outside the window and you have to scroll. Unlike Opera and Firefox which decently reorder text on the page. The only good things are eye-candy. That quick view of tabs that show all tabbed pages as thumbnails on a page. And RSS feed showing items as a page with links and accompanying tuhmbnailed images. Oh, yeah, they appear to have fixed printing, so the page is shrunk to fit the paper width. But everything is small then. And pressing Ctrl-P on the Microsoft index page turned their flash animation upside down and mirrored it. On screen. Nice going. I had to reload to turn it right. BTW, drac, you have to unlock the toolbars to arrange them. Idiots. And I hate the fact that you don't have menus by default. Besides, Nevanna, those sites my break again, because IE 7 bypasses the usual IE hacks.

Opera all the way!

Check out ie7.com. If you ever go to the Microsoft visitor's center they have a future office with a 3x3 monitor grid that really cool. I opened the task manager and found firefox running in the background!

Hey Drac, see that site your IE is on? I think that's a hint, go for FF!!