Read about it on the IEBlog.
Visit the IE download page to install.
For more info, read the
Betanews article.
Edit: Paul Thurrott discusses it as well.
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jamie
mazie is amused
great - clicks link... sigh clicks to validate (prove not a criminal) Download!
Download done. Install. You now need to validate windows before continuing... sigh ... click - continues
*i think maybe you should run the validation check everytime we start IE as well. Cant be too careful -
LaBomba
Summer
Hey wanna be my Vali-date? We'll activate together.
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eddwo
Wheres my head at?
Doh. I just had to rebuild my machine and I only just reinstalled beta3.
When I went to download it I got a "This download is no longer available" message a couple of times, so I thought something must be up and I checked the IE Blog.
It didn't have anything new, so I refreshed a couple of times and managed to get beta3 to download.
It must have still been propagating through the server farm.
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jamie wrote:great - clicks link... sigh clicks to validate (prove not a criminal) Download!
Download done. Install. You now need to validate windows before continuing... sigh ... click - continues
*i think maybe you should run the validation check everytime we start IE as well. Cant be too careful
Did you encounter a problem with the online validation? It took less than 2 seconds for the "Validate" button to turn into a "Download" button for me.
Because IE7 distributes beyond just the validating download page, the installer itself checks. That takes less than 10 seconds or so on most systems.
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BruceMorgan wrote:
Doing a WGA check on browser startup would have a large impact on startup performance and a giant server load. Not a good idea, for those reasons and many others.
Bruce, I believe Jamie may have been being sarcastic
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jamie wrote:while it does indeed take only seconds to be accused of being a criminal (twice) I still think Windows should stop the "Validate" after you do it once - for any piece of additional addon software by ms.
back to IE - loaded fine (2 reboots) but it turned off the quick links bar on the taskbar. No biggie - turn it back on - the order is all over ... & certain icons are duplicated ( 2 firefox, 3 Ie's(one from last time i guess) 2 my computers ) strange FF would be in there..
*goes to wordpress to check if all the errors are still there....
THANKYOU BRUCE AND IE TEAM - all the yellow bars on Wordpress are now gone. All the paste image errors and the New themes errors are gone!
It only leave one pop up about "both secure and non-secure items" which Im sure is fine. (perfect world add check box "always allow for this site"
no more firefox for wordpress. thanks again
I view the WGA check not as "prove you're not a criminal" but more like "show your ticket to get in". Different sides of the same coin.
The mixed content goldbar caused too many issues so it was reverted back to IE6 behavior. The feature control key still exists; apps that build on IE components can goldbar mixed content if they want.
To avoid the mixed content warning, I believe you can add a site to Trusted Sites, then change the "mixed content" security setting from Prompt to Enable.
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jamie
mazie is amused
while it does indeed take only seconds to be accused of being a criminal (twice) I still think Windows should stop the "Validate" after you do it once - for any piece of additional addon software by ms.
back to IE - loaded fine (2 reboots) but it turned off the quick links bar on the taskbar. No biggie - turn it back on - the order is all over ... & certain icons are duplicated (3 Ie's(one from last time i guess) 2 my computers )
*goes to wordpress to check if all the errors are still there....
THANKYOU BRUCE AND IE TEAM - all the yellow bars on Wordpress are now gone. All the paste image errors and the New themes errors are gone!
It only leave one pop up about "both secure and non-secure items" which Im sure is fine. (perfect world add check box "always allow for this site"
no more firefox for wordpress. thanks again [y] -
CannotResolveSymbol
Microsoft: Who do you want to execute today?
Was native support for XMLHTTP (i.e. without an ActiveX control) there in Beta 3 and earlier?
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Jaz
From the depths of Wales I come
great news. it's working perfectly, installed perfectly, i'm loving it.
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W3bbo
Work hard; increase production; prevent accidents, and be happy.
BruceMorgan wrote:The mixed content goldbar caused too many issues so it was reverted back to IE6 behavior. The feature control key still exists; apps that build on IE components can goldbar mixed content if they want.
To avoid the mixed content warning, I believe you can add a site to Trusted Sites, then change the "mixed content" security setting from Prompt to Enable.
Goldbar? Wasn't that the "Information Bar"?
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wow, this build is so nice. the speed of loading pages and starting up is great.
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CannotResolveSymbol
Microsoft: Who do you want to execute today?
... the DoS from all the people trying to download it at the same time is nice too.
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DMassy
Driving!
W3bbo wrote:
BruceMorgan wrote: The mixed content goldbar caused too many issues so it was reverted back to IE6 behavior. The feature control key still exists; apps that build on IE components can goldbar mixed content if they want.
To avoid the mixed content warning, I believe you can add a site to Trusted Sites, then change the "mixed content" security setting from Prompt to Enable.
Goldbar? Wasn't that the "Information Bar"?
"Information Bar" is the official name. Internally we often refer to it as the "gold bar". Saving a few syllables
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blowdart
Peek-a-boo
DMassy wrote:
"Information Bar" is the official name. Internally we often refer to it as the "gold bar". Saving a few syllables
Hmmm
Biscuity goodness.
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Just downloaded and installed it.
Its nice to see that the deleting favorites ui-lockup bug has been fixed in this build
My only complaint so far, is that you still cannot remove everything from the command bar and not have the command bar reset next time you open up IE7. I still have to have a sacrifical extra seperator bar in there to prevent that.
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i remember some time ago there was a channel 9 video where someone said they were doing tests where the input file was changed bit by bit, currupting the data, trying to cause an error or crash or somehting within the application. is this something the IE team also did?
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Cool, got it installed before the rush
A slight issue though - when I click on the New Tab button a get a ~.8 second pause with the tab title saying Connecting .... and then the tab finally being shown when the page has loaded. I was just unsure of the 1 second pause to load about:blank it almost seems deliberate but it really makes the browsing feel slow.
Edit: scrolling is also *extremely* jerky when zoomed in to 200% - I have 2 processors, I don't mind if you occassionally use them both
Edit 2: Ctrl and scroll wheel now zooms instead of changing the text size I guess I'll get used to it though ..
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