IE 7 BETA

[Vishal Gupta 4]

IE7 Released for MSDN Subscribers.

Date Posted: 7/28/2005 12:22:00 AM

Size: 10.06 MB

Description:

The first stage of the beta process for Internet Explorer 7 has begun—developer testing! The latest version of the world’s most popular Web browser has been released for technical evaluation, feedback, and testing by software and Web site developers.

The Beta 1 release signals that Internet Explorer 7 has reached an important milestone, with a number of key new features and improvements, and is ready for website and application compatibility testing. This release is specifically intended for developers to confirm that existing applications and websites will work well with Internet Explorer 7, and provides an opportunity for developers to give feedback directly to the development team. There will be further refinement between Beta 1 and the final version.

Beta 1 is not intended for broad consumer trial and evaluation but it does offer a preview of some of the benefits that Internet Explorer 7.

Related Sites/Topics:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/default.mspx

A Review of IE 7 Beta1

Complete Review

[Utsav 0]

For WindowsXP SP2 only............

[Vishal Gupta 4]

Guys!

I downloaded & installed IE7 BETA on my comp successfully.......

First while installing it asked to check whether my windows is genuine or not?

And it gave ERROR: Invalid Product key!

But I managed to install it.

Looking gr8.

[Puneet 0]

Yeah looks good. This is my forst post from IE 7.

[Vishal Gupta 4]

IE 7 BETA is a carbon copy of Firefox.

Very similar look, same Search engine & tabbed browser thingi...

But its better than the previous version.

[Puneet 0]

And it managed to crash, the moment I opened gmail. It refuses to startup and now am stuck with it as I forgot to make a restore point before installing IE7.

[deepu 0]

And it managed to crash, the moment I opened gmail. It refuses to startup and now am stuck with it as I forgot to make a restore point before installing IE7.

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Always happens with beta softwares!!!

[Puneet 0]

Atleast its working with windows update, and that is the sole purpose for which I use IE since I got hooked upto Firefox - which incidently is a much much better browser. So no harm done.

[ashoksoft 83]

Still believe in Firefox (tried IE 7... Terrifying .. ) right now I am using IE coz I am posting from my college

[harsh 1]

ie7 is in beta stage.

final release is scheduled after 6 months.

so its bound to have problems as its too early to use it for users like us.

its supposed to be tested by beta testers, not the end users.

[anujit 0]

Puneet:

Given M$ - Google rivalry that was probably pre-programmed! Just like Yahoo & Hotmail were to junk Gmail invites!

I'm with Firefox and happy. There is the occasional page or two that doesnt render well in Firefox - especially pages with JS etc and all pages with ActiveX!

But people are working fast here... Symantec which offered its online virus scan only through IE (ActiveX) is now offering non-ActiveX online scanning that support other browsers. Then theres the Google bar & Yahoo bar for Firefox etc etc etc.

[Puneet 0]

You maybe right, it was actually foolish of me to try the browser on a rivals site the moment I laid my hands on it. Even yahoo reverts you to the age old plain html version of their mail on IE7.

And that stub near the tabs looks AGGGGHHHHHH UGLY!!!!!!!!!

Firefox rocks, and if some designers can't design their sites with firefox, I would rather not visit their sites

[anujit 0]

But where can one download a beta from? Apart from joining MSDN of course.

[Vishal Gupta 4]

I can provide the link.

But don't know whether providing the URL here will be legal or not?

And it managed to crash, the moment I opened gmail. It refuses to startup and now am stuck with it as I forgot to make a restore point before installing IE7.

U can uninstall IE7 & restore the previous IE6 by going to Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs. Select Show Updates checkbox & U'll find an option to remove Internet Explorer 7 BETA1.

[anujit 0]

Providing a link for downloading IE 7 is illegal?

[Puneet 0]

Yes it may be illegal as it has been released only to a closed community of MSDN.

Anyway, Thanks Vishal for first providing the link and then telling me how to get it off too.

[rEdshiFt 1]

Run IE7 without even installing it!!!!

Found this on another forum and it works!

Most of us are hesitant to install IE7 particularly as it is a Beta version and will more than likely mess up your windows XP install. This method allows you to run IE7 from a directory without even installing it.

1/. First download a copy of IE7.

2/. Extract the downloaded RAR file to a directory somewhere.

3/. Then extract the file "IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe" using Winrar or similar to the same directory.

4/. Delete or rename the file SHLWAPI.DLL

5/. Open a blank page in Notepad and save this blank file to the same directory and name it IEXPLORE.exe.local

6/. You will now be able to run the IEXPLORE.exe file and use IE7.

7/. Create a desktop shortcut to IEXPLORE.exe and thats it, you are away!

Notes: I am running Win XP SP2

Home page remains as normal because properties are used from those specified in Internet Options. The Favorites Menu didn't work for me, however I was able to open the Favorites sidebar from the View menu. This gave full access to my existing IE favorites which is good because I also share these Favorites with Firefox.

Enjoy!

THANX TO wozzle

Comments Please

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edit: heard from a buncha guys that this gives troubles if u got a pirated windows OS (...and thats about 99 percent of us)

Edited August 11, 2005 by rEdshiFt

[Ashokjp 15]

ie 7 is kewl.. any1 got a addon like the Adfilter 1 in firefox.