IE7 Public Beta 2

NathanE · 31 Jan 2006 at 18:05

Watch this space...

http://www.microsoft.com/ie

Should be on there for download (and I quote) "today".

Caged · 31 Jan 2006 at 18:13

Damn you beat me to it.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/default.mspx

Edit: In before the rush of "It's still Mikkkkro$$$$oft so I won't use it" posts.

lordedmond · 31 Jan 2006 at 18:33

thanks NathanE

running now , hey its changed the default font

Otacon · 31 Jan 2006 at 18:34

I have a VM ready

Datamonkey · 31 Jan 2006 at 18:38

downloading now,

cheers for the heads up

Craig321 · 31 Jan 2006 at 18:39

Cool, thanks. Does it overwrite IE6 ?

marc2003 · 31 Jan 2006 at 18:44

i'm a die hard firefox fanboy but i'm willing to give it a go....

Datamonkey · 31 Jan 2006 at 18:44

Craig, yep over writes ie6, but all you have to do to remove it is goto add/remove and tick show updates.

Its looking good i like a lot.

Otacon · 31 Jan 2006 at 18:45

It will do essentially, but you can uninstall it. I would highly recommend you keep this off your main rig though. As better as it may be to beta 1, it still is a beta, and has every chance of messing you up.

Craig321 · 31 Jan 2006 at 18:51

Datamonkey said:
Craig, yep over writes ie6, but all you have to do to remove it is goto add/remove and tick show updates.

Its looking good i like a lot.

OK, good good

. As said above, I'm gonna uninstall after a little bit of testing and seeing how it is, don't want to risk breaking everything as I couldn't be bothered to restore backups etc.

It's quite nice, looks good etc. Basically the same as Mozilla though...

Glad to see that it has a nice quick startup like IE6 does, but that's just about the only thing it has different to Mozilla.

Thanks
Craig.

Flibster · 31 Jan 2006 at 19:16

Opera user here....

Still prefer IE to Firefox though.

Would give IE7 a go - but it's not XP64.

Simon/~Flibster

xyphic · 31 Jan 2006 at 20:41

Seems pretty good to me so far. Page rendering is uber quick, certainly compared to IE6. The tabs are nothing new - would like to see a bit more configurability there.

One thing I'll say is that not having the traditional menu bar will take some getting used to!

Caged · 31 Jan 2006 at 20:52

Ok mine's falling over at every install. Something about msfeed.dll (I think).

NathanE · 31 Jan 2006 at 21:35

Watch a 35 minute video interview with some of the IE7 team regarding this Beta 2 Preview release:

http://download.microsoft.com/downl...6-9ea8-5674fc9e1f9e/ie7beta2_preview_2006.wmv

Duke · 31 Jan 2006 at 21:35

Cheers for link. Seems to work ok and is quite quick to use. I'll probably keep to FF for now and see how IE7 comes along

Steve JL · 31 Jan 2006 at 23:02

Thought I would give this a quick try after reading about it on here earlier.

Looks quite nice,not tried the tabbed browsing yet but like the text style.

I guess its a little difficutlt to adjust to after the "old style" IE

Does anyone know the timescale for full release?

Steve

AJUK · 31 Jan 2006 at 23:13

I have given it a little try and it seems OK. Still nowhere near as fast or feature laden as Opera but it is a move in the right direction.

Rather strangely MSN UK site appears to be broken in IE7 and fine in Opera.

Nice one Bill.

NathanE · 31 Jan 2006 at 23:21

Steve JL said:
Thought I would give this a quick try after reading about it on here earlier.

Looks quite nice,not tried the tabbed browsing yet but like the text style.

I guess its a little difficutlt to adjust to after the "old style" IE

Does anyone know the timescale for full release?

Steve

The UI is still not finished in this Beta 2 Preview so with any luck the final version won't have such a steep "relearning curve"

To be honest I think they're going to drag this one out, possibly all the way till just before Vista. I'm guessing it'll be a Q2-Q3 launch.

gib786 · 1 Feb 2006 at 00:45

less than 1 min into it an the view, settings etc toolbar dissapears, bah back to my old ie6 an firefox combo

jmc777 · 1 Feb 2006 at 03:27

Caged said:
Ok mine's falling over at every install. Something about msfeed.dll (I think).

From here: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/

I am getting an error stating that msfeeds.dll cannot be found. What do I do?

Some anti-spyware and anti-virus software is known to interfere with IE7’s ability to install. We do not recommend disabling these programs and if the steps below don’t help you, we recommend that you wait until a future release in which we hope to have addressed the problem. Please don’t hesitate to send feedback (via newsgroups, email, or the feedback reporting tool) and let us know which software programs are causing this problem so we can be sure to follow up with them.

The most common cause is permissions being set to read only for certain entries in the Windows registry. This has been discussed in microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general newsgroup (accessible through the web here) by Stephen Anacker. He gave this workaround for the problem:

This happened because the permissions on a registry key has been changed. On install we archive all the keys which involves both reading and writing to the keys. Some application has changed the permissions on the .tif and .tiff registry keys to not allow administrator full control over the key. What we need to do is change the permissions to allow the administrator to right and archive the key. This is the workaround, it involves changing registry keys so do this at your own risk.
Go to Start then "Run" type "regedit" in the run box and enter.
In regedit expand HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT in the left pane and the scroll down to the entry ".tif"
Right click on the entry in the left pane, select "permissions..."
In the permissions box select the "administrators" group.
Click on the "Advanced" button at the lower right.
Select administrators and click edit.
In the next dialogue check to allow box for "full control".
Repeat this with the .tiff key
Save and close.
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