IE7 full release

[Web-Junkie]

Originally Posted by Chris T

Take someone else's great idea > make it slightly clunky > push it like h€ll to ensure marketing, not merit, grants it dominance.

Nice to see the familiar Microshaft business model in full swing again.

BTW, how big is the download?

14.8mb for the XP SP2 one I downloaded.

[greencreeper]

The blocker download includes an admin template so you can deploy it via group policy - very handy

[AndrewJ]

I've barely a problem with IE7 runs smooth, has never crashed, deals with adverts fine for me, mind you half you lot likely going to dodgy sites eh

[Chrysalis]

Well I have upgraded and I think they have made a massive cock up.

1 - The interface has changed completly with by default the menu been hard to find and the toolbars layed out in a different order. Its a big mistake to suddenly change a interface that your userbase is used to, wonder how people will react when winupdate puts IE7 silently next month.

2 - Limited customisation of the layout cant move toolbars around freely and no skinning.

3 - Tabs limited to 1 row, this is very poor I went to transfer the 40 odd tabs I have loaded in maxthon to IE7 thinking finally I dont need to use 3rd party for IE browsing but how wrong was I, by using 1 row unless you dont mind not seeing all your tab titles at once its limited to about 10 tabs per window on a 1280x1024 screen res.

4 - Poor cache performance, this could have been improved to catch up with opera but wasnt.

On the upside it seems to have a lower memory footprint and is noticeably faster then IE6, havent noticed any websites loading wrong yet. However I have disabled the tabbed mode, I managed to find a way to get the menu bar back that is possible but hard to find the option. Still trying to get used to the new buttons tho.

[vbnmu]

am having download problems with IE7. Wheneva i try to download something, the 'open-save' window comes up but it neva actually downloads it.
I can choose to save the file but the download progress window doesn't come up n it doesn't save the file anywhere.
anyone got an idea?

P.s: i dnt have no such problems with firefox.

[Chrysalis]

IE7 crashed twice for me yesterday.

once on my online banking site and another on a forum.

[Web-Junkie]

Had a crash going to Winamp.com in getflash.dll (part of Flashget download manager), disabled it then re-enabled it and it didn't crash the second time I went to Winamp.com!

So far the things I don't like in IE7:

1. No ability to open links from 'Classic Menu Bar > Favorites' in a new TAB.
2. Right clicking on a link in 'Classic Menu Bar > Favorites' and choosing 'properties' pops the properties box under IE7, not on top, so you have to minimize IE7 to see the properties box. This does not happen if you use the 'Favorites Center'.
3. No ability to open FTP sites in 'Folder View' inside IE7.
4. No 'snap off' toolbars/buttons so you can't move them where you want.
5. The First TAB (the one you can't close) would be nice to have a close option like all the other TABS, but using this 'close' button' should just load a blank page or your default homepage.
6. No option to open the first link in a 'TAB Group' in the First TAB if no web page is loaded there.
7. Better crash protection if a site/add on causes IE to crash, just shut the problem page down not the whole browser.
8. Phishing filter, I see this as a way for M$ to track all the websites you visit under the disguise of 'safety', thankfully it can be turned OFF!!

Things I do like:

1. TABS, obviously as it's IE7's main feature and helps prevent loads of separate IE instances that hog resources.
2. Zoom option for webpages, helps spot that elusive 'smallprint' on NTL's websites
3. Ability to use your favourite search engine by default, not forced into using the M$ one.
4. RSS Feeds, not that I use them but always nice to see it implemented.
5. Overall Stability for a major release, only crashes from 3rd party plugins observed so far, but better crash protection needed as stated in 7. above!
6. Not too difficult a learning curve, just need to comb the options to find/tweak the extra settings.

I'd give it 8.5/10 as it still does most of what I want it to do!

[Chrysalis]

yeah i reenabled tabs now, dont use it as a main tabbed browser but does help to tidy up the task bar still as I used to have 3 or 4 seperate IE windows open.

I will be uninstalling google toobar now it has its own google bar which may make it stable.

Works fine for me - had no problems.

[ADd]

Another one, not as critical this time, can't wait for the security Vista will afford us all.

http://secunia.com/advisories/22628/

A vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer 7, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof the content of websites.

The problem is that a website can inject content into another site's window if the target name of the window is known. This can e.g. be exploited by a malicious website to spoof the content of a pop-up window opened on a trusted website.

This is related to:
SA13251

Secunia has constructed a test, which can be used to check if your browser is affected by this issue:
http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers...rability_test/

The vulnerability has been confirmed on a fully patched system with Internet Explorer 7.0 and Microsoft Windows XP SP2.

Solution:
Do not browse untrusted sites while browsing trusted sites.

[Chrysalis]

another annoyance with IE7

when closing a tab it goes to the last tab instead of the previously active tab. standard behaviour in all tabbed browsers I have used maxthon, opera and avant all goto last used tab.

Also it isnt saving preferences when I quit I have to keep ticking reopen same tabs it doest stay ticked.

[jrhnewark]

What a load of crap IE7 is.

I made the grave mistake on putting it on my girlfriend's PC a few days ago. She hates the UI and half the websites she wants don't load (including my site, http://jrh.holmemoss.co.uk).

IE7 thinks there's some terrible connection error on that site and loads of others. Any ideas?

I can't believe how MS are just giving the game to Mozilla.

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by jrhnewark

What a load of crap IE7 is.

I made the grave mistake on putting it on my girlfriend's PC a few days ago. She hates the UI and half the websites she wants don't load (including my site, http://jrh.holmemoss.co.uk).

IE7 thinks there's some terrible connection error on that site and loads of others. Any ideas?

I can't believe how MS are just giving the game to Mozilla.

Loaded fine here once I sorted the link out.

[jrhnewark]

Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

Loaded fine here once I sorted the link out.

It loads fine for me too. However, my girlfriend's router is flaky (well, it was made by Belkin..), and I have a funny feeling that IE7 is a bit too sensitive to it. It's just all a bit odd.

[nffc]

Originally Posted by jrhnewark

It loads fine for me too. However, my girlfriend's router is flaky (well, it was made by Belkin..), and I have a funny feeling that IE7 is a bit too sensitive to it. It's just all a bit odd.

Loads fine here - via a Belkin! Take it you've checked her PC for all the usual suspects... though quite why she'd want to look at pr0n when she has a BF