Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 for Windows XP / 2003!

Before I install it on my VPC, can I have some screenshot goodness?

It looks identical to IE 7 beta 2 but with a new full screen button (welcome).

THEY'VE ADDED CTRL-A TO THE ADDRESS BAR AND SEARCH BAR!!!! WOOHOO!

Thanks IE team! You guys rock...

Ah this is sweet! Thanks for the link and screenshots. So what's new with this release just security updates, visuals?

mattcampbell wrote:

Ah this is sweet! Thanks for the link and screenshots. So what's new with this release just security updates, visuals?

Have installed it today - first impressions:  It's great!

Previous builds were still fairly slow at page rendering, but this new beta seems MUCH faster, the performance difference between IE7 and FireFox is now very hard to see.

If performance stays this good, or hopefully gets even better (any chance of more improvements to come?), then I'll seriously be considering switching back to IE as my default browser!

Initial page rendering still seems to be a little slower - is this down to the phishing filter?  Page rendering from previously opened pages (ie, from the cache), is now very fast, about as fast as FireFox i'd say.

Also, when I print, some pages are scaled down to (it seems) 25% of normal printing size - I've left feedback on connect.

Still, this new version is looking great and is certainly tempting this long time FireFox user to 'switch back'.

I'll be using IE7 as my default browser at home for the timebeing so I can look for more bugs or areas for improvement.

I know you guys think I'm crazy, but CTRL-A is the biggest update since the release of IE 7... I mean, security, search bar, anti-phlishing tool ... muh... They are NOTHING compared to CTRL-A!

PS - Does Windows fix the annoying auto-complete bug? The one where if the mouse is left within the auto-complete box area, even if the mouse is there since before the box was created,  that it will auto-select the item below it even without the mouse moving, making up/down unusable.

Although it does occur in IE *cough* Google.com *cough* it isn't an IE bug, because it also happens for the run box in XP and such.

The Performance is greatly improved, it is wonderful! Props to Microsoft. If we even see a little bit of improvement between now, and the final release, I think Microsoft can compete in the browser wars.

Woot this is awesome news just installing now i hope its much better than beta 2 from the screens above the tab dragging and dropping looks wicked.

Yeah, I just read about tab drag/drop on the IE blog, very cool... Not something I've missed but something I can see myself using.

hmm just found an odd bug... If you double click half way between the address bar and an open tab sometimes it creates a new tab instead of resizing the window or doing nothing... Very odd bug...

Manip wrote:

Yeah, I just read about tab drag/drop on the IE blog, very cool... Not something I've missed but something I can see myself using.

hmm just found an odd bug... If you double click half way between the address bar and an open tab sometimes it creates a new tab instead of resizing the window or doing nothing... Very odd bug...

arrg just uninstalled beta 2, now when trying to install beta 3 it says i can't installfor some reason.  I have checked the site http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917925 and gone through part 1 of the step which said it was fine so tried again and it wouldn't work.  now onto step 2 which says to check %windir%\ie7beta2.log

(edit) it says on the website to:

In the Find what box, type DoRegistryUpdates failed, and then click Find Next. If you locate a "DoRegistryUpdates failed" error message, a problem exists that is preventing the update of the registry. The error message will resemble the following example:
 
however this doesn't occur ever, but similar things do occur.

obviously i'm not installing beta 2 anymore so i checked %windir%\ie7beta3.log

i would repost it but it's a bit long so i'll upload it to here:  http://jarede.googlepages.com/ie7beta3.log

dave, bruce, help?

Jaz wrote:

arrg just uninstalled beta 2, now when trying to install beta 3 it says i can't installfor some reason.  I have checked the site http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917925 and gone through part 1 of the step which said it was fine so tried again and it wouldn't work.  now onto step 2 which says to check %windir%\ie7beta2.log

(edit) it says on the website to:

In the Find what box, type DoRegistryUpdates failed, and then click Find Next. If you locate a "DoRegistryUpdates failed" error message, a problem exists that is preventing the update of the registry. The error message will resemble the following example:
 
however this doesn't occur ever, but similar things do occur.

obviously i'm not installing beta 2 anymore so i checked %windir%\ie7beta3.log

i would repost it but it's a bit long so i'll upload it to here:  http://jarede.googlepages.com/ie7beta3.log

dave, bruce, help?

Check the security permissions on HKCR\gopher, HKCR\gopher and HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\gopher, HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\https.

Are you an administrator? And is IE 6 open?

The icons are slightly less bad, good work, however the "star" icons are really pixelated. Also, I don't know if it's just the new icons or if it's my customized classic theme, but the interface does appear slightly "cleaner" than before.

Some bugs are gone from my site, however it has introduced new problems too, and many bugs still remain un-attended.

Parts of the interface are still inconsistent, such as the arrow icons on the command bar; some of them contain "two hotspots", others only contain one clickable area.

The active tab is still difficult to distinguish from other tabs when using classic theme. The stop button still looks like a close button. You can move tabs (great), yet you can't move buttons???

When rolling over the favourites centre menu the "selected" colour is the same as the text colour, therefore I can't read a link if my mouse is hovering over it.

Rowan wrote:

The icons are slightly less bad, good work, however the "star" icons are really pixelated. Also, I don't know if it's just the new icons or if it's my customized classic theme, but the interface does appear slightly "cleaner" than before.

Some bugs are gone from my site, however it has introduced new problems too, and many bugs still remain un-attended.

Parts of the interface are still inconsistent, such as the arrow icons on the command bar; some of them contain "two hotspots", others only contain one clickable area.

The active tab is still difficult to distinguish from other tabs when using classic theme. The stop button still looks like a close button. You can move tabs (great), yet you can't move buttons???

When rolling over the favourites centre menu the "selected" colour is the same as the text colour, therefore I can't read a link if my mouse is hovering over it.

DMassy wrote:



Jaz wrote: arrg just uninstalled beta 2, now when trying to install beta 3 it says i can't installfor some reason.  I have checked the site http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917925 and gone through part 1 of the step which said it was fine so tried again and it wouldn't work.  now onto step 2 which says to check %windir%\ie7beta2.log (edit) it says on the website to: In the Find what box, type DoRegistryUpdates failed, and then click Find Next. If you locate a "DoRegistryUpdates failed" error message, a problem exists that is preventing the update of the registry. The error message will resemble the following example:   however this doesn't occur ever, but similar things do occur. obviously i'm not installing beta 2 anymore so i checked %windir%\ie7beta3.log i would repost it but it's a bit long so i'll upload it to here:  http://jarede.googlepages.com/ie7beta3.log dave, bruce, help?

Take a look at the post on the team blog http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/06/29/650033.aspx
Hopefully that might help.