IE7 Final now out

ubern00b · 19 Oct 2006 at 11:40

bikes said:
^^

Same here

Edit: fixed it now

I have the exact same settings and things like mIRC and GMail Notifier still open in a new window :confused:

Corasik · 19 Oct 2006 at 11:42

Just upgraded to IE7 myself, the microsoft update site didnt have it, but the IE Homepage did, correctly identified my XP64 OS, and offered the appropriate 64bit download. As with IE6 is also sends a 32bit version for compatiblity with certain multimedia plugins.

Only quirk I found was it was loading the 32bit version by default, but I just switched the icons around on my startbar to sort that one out.

afraser2k · 19 Oct 2006 at 11:43

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35210

Not sure if I'll upgrade my desktop at work yet though probably will for home depending on any sites I use breaking.

smids · 19 Oct 2006 at 12:47

afraser2k said:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35210

Not sure if I'll upgrade my desktop at work yet though probably will for home depending on any sites I use breaking.

Blimey

Thankfully I still use FF at the moment.

PinkPig · 19 Oct 2006 at 13:05

smids said:
How is it that 'Clear Type' is actually worse?

From your screenshot on my computer, I find the Clear Type version in IE easier to read. It's mostly to do with the monitor you're using - on a CRT, it will almost always look better without it, for instance.

Spider · 19 Oct 2006 at 13:07

smids said:
Blimey

Thankfully I still use FF at the moment.

Which itself has dozens of unpatched vulnerabilities.

Burnsy2023 · 19 Oct 2006 at 13:08

Spider said:
Which itself has dozens of unpatched vulnerabilities.

Indeed, very true.

Burnsy

smids · 19 Oct 2006 at 13:10

burnsy2023 said:
Indeed, very true.

Burnsy

Hey, I don't strive for perfection but I do value sensitive data. I ran their test and was surprised at the info they obtained - also looks like quite an old bug...

Oh, and I am on a 14" 1024x768 LCD (Thinkpad T41).

Burnsy2023 · 19 Oct 2006 at 13:12

smids said:
Hey, I don't strive for perfection but I do value sensitive data. I ran their test and was surprised at the info they obtained.

Oh, and I am on a 14" 1024x768 LCD (Thinkpad T41).

I just don't think it's fair for FF to be thought as being rock solid on the security front. It's not, but IE has had a lot of history in the media about it and thats what people remember.

Burnsy

Pottsey · 19 Oct 2006 at 13:13

Anyone found the history list yet? Its always useful to look at the list to see what websites children have been going on. But I cannot find it.

smids · 19 Oct 2006 at 13:17

burnsy2023 said:
I just don't think it's fair for FF to be thought as being rock solid on the security front. It's not, but IE has had a lot of history in the media about it and thats what people remember.

Burnsy

I don't think FF is - I find it quite buggy sometimes - occasional memory leak, sometimes flash can really crank up CPU usage whereas the same page in IE is fine and runs smoothly. Obviously, that's not security front but general bugs but I know FF has holes.

Obviously IE7 will have it's huuge flaws initially, as will all MS stuff so that companies pay them more for fixes/corporate support. IE will get more bad press thanks to it being the most widely used browser in the world (I should think) but MS ought to spend more time fixing flaws from the ground up to release something which runs as well as FF. They have the resources...

History = Ctrl+Shift+H. Or Tools > Toolbars > History.

SwishSpencor · 19 Oct 2006 at 14:08

feenster99 said:
Can you run IE6 and IE7 in parallel? I'm a web developer type, so need both for testing if possible.

Matt

With microsoft goin to push IE7 on people with the automatic update, theres shouldn't be much reason to need to test in IE6 'cos anyone with windows connected to the net will get it surely

afraser2k · 19 Oct 2006 at 14:11

Depends on how quick web sites are to update with any changes in IE7, especially banking sites if they were "IE Only"? That's basically what's holding me back from upgrading at the moment.

dirtydog · 19 Oct 2006 at 14:20

Spider said:
Which itself has dozens of unpatched vulnerabilities.

Are you referring to the recent hoax?

garyh · 19 Oct 2006 at 14:26

dirtydog said:
Are you referring to the recent hoax?

Nope; he's talking about these smart ****.

Why do people think that FF is so much more secure than any other browser beggars belief. Microsoft has a larger market share.. thus it's going to get targeted more for vulnerabilities.. Firefox would be the exact same in IE's position.

metalmackey · 19 Oct 2006 at 15:03

I just installed ie7 and it freezes at the welcome page. I cant choose a search engine or any other options on that page. All other sites seem fine though.

Garp · 19 Oct 2006 at 15:48

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/19/ie7_release/

And the first bug is found...

arty · 19 Oct 2006 at 16:12

Spider said:
Which itself has dozens of unpatched vulnerabilities.

Though to be fair, looking purely at Secunia Firefox 1.x does come off slightly better than IE6.

arty

Things change I've changed · 19 Oct 2006 at 16:15

anyone had the following problem, just installed IE7 but everytime you double click to load up IE instead of going to my home page it keeps trying to go to a link on microsofts website but can never find the page ?

Deleted member 58846 · 19 Oct 2006 at 17:13

burnsy2023 said:
Is there a silent MSI for AD distribution anywhere?

Burnsy

/passive - Run the installation without any input from the user.
/quiet - Identical to /passive, but do not show any user interface.
/update-no - Do not look for Internet Explorer updates.
/no-default - Do not make Internet Explorer the default browser.
/nobackup - Do not backup the files that would later be required to uninstall Internet Explorer.
/norestart - Do not restart when install is complete.
/forcerestart - Restart after installation.
/log:<path> - Create a log file at <path>.

Hope this helps....

IE7 Final now out

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