Summary: Bugs in Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview

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Exiting IE causes error message

User Interface Lockups and 100% CPU Usage
On my new Sony VAIO notebook, child windows (such as Tools - Options) appear to be out of focus when opened (with an inactive titlebar, etc). In other words, rather than the parent window passing focus to the child dialog window when it spawns, the parent window retains focus. The child dialog responds to mouse over events (such as the tab and button highlights), but it doesn't respond to mouse clicks or keyboard activity.
There are also issues redrawing the toolbar/menubar area in the main window, and shortly after the program starts, CPU usage jumps to 100%.

Download Blocked Content
I am developing a website and am going directly to a page that creates and displays a pdf, I get the Information Bar stating that IE has blocked the site from downloading files to my computer, not a big deal, click the Information Bar and click download file and the page refreshes to my home page (about:blank) never allowing me to download the pdf I created.

Status Bar Blanks Out When Displaying Context Menu
Right click on the status bar on the popup blocker or phishing box. When the menu comes up, hover over one of the entries. Note that most of the status bar blanks out.

Incorrect tab selected by external application
Some dongle based SSL VPN solutions (aka SafeNet IGate), require a handle to the browser window to maintain the SSL tunnels. When yanking the dongle out, the system is supposed to log you out automatically. With the introduction of tabs, the wrong tab is hijacked (aka the leftmost one) and the user is redirected to the logout page. This still leaves the other tab open with the old session open (but not active, as the other tab has destroyed your server session). Somehow the window handle also needs to indicate the relevant tab as well for that application (unique window handle per tab?)

SELECT lists do not update visually
Create a popup window, and feed data back to the child window with the following javascript " window.opener.remoteeditProduct(23, 54, "text"); " where the child window has the following definition for "remoteeditProduct":

function remote_editProduct(oldId, id, text)
{
var frm = document.forms'SCOPEForm';
var arrFbox = new Array();
var arrLookup = new Array();
var i;
var fLength = 0;
for(i=0; i<frm'products[]'.options.length; i++)
{
arrLookupfrm['products[]'].options[i].text = frm'products[]'.optionsi.value;

if(frm'products[]'.optionsi.value != oldId)
{
arrFboxfLength = frm'products[]'.optionsi.text;
fLength++;
}
}
//arrFbox.sort();
frm'products[]'.length = 0;
var c;
for(c=0; c<arrFbox.length; c++) {
var no = new Option();
no.value = arrLookuparrFbox[c];
no.text = arrFboxc;
frm'products[]'c = no;
}

var no = new Option();
no.value = oldId + '::' + id;
no.text = text;
frm'products[]'frm['products[]'].length = no;

return true;
}

This works fine in all browsers (non IE) and versions of IE up to IE7beta1, but now its broken in IE7beta2. The SELECT control is updated internally, but not visually to reflect the newly added Option.

There's a workaround for this. clone the node, and then remove the original. See the code below. According to the IEBlog comments, there's a fix for this already for the final version of IE7. - netdragon

		 /* This is a hack for IE7 Beta 2 */
		 var tBox = document.formElement.selectElement;
		 var tBox2 = tBox.cloneNode(true);
		 var [tBoxParent] = tBox.parentNode;
		 tBox.parentNode.removeChild( tBox );
		 [tBoxParent.appendChild(] tBox2 );

FTP Operation Broken
FTP URL with userid and password logs into ftp site, but shows completely blank page.

Javascript onmouse over & out doesn't allow window.status changes

also
I noticed inside the task manager if I've had multiple tabs opened and then close them they seem to be running in memory yet.

Zoom Feature
* Inconsistent UI - Drop down arrow should be seperately highlighted in Zoom button. The reasoning is that all the other buttons on the page fall into two categories
* Click for action, but drop down arrow for more actions, where the drop down arrow is highlighted seperately
* Drop down box where no "default action", where whole button is highlighted.
* Zoom button is more like first option but fully highlighted like drop down boxes
* No, the zoom button behaves the same as all the other drop down menus + buttons (Home, RSS feeds, Print) from the main toolbar. --CannotResolveSymbol
* OK, maybe so...But there is a general inconsistency with the icons in this area --Cider
Problems with Sharepoint
* When I try to fill out a form Sharepoint states that this requires Internet Explorer 5.0 and greator to do this. Using the default template for the absence tracking.

Back and Forwards buttons
* Appear to have no On-Mouse-Down state/icons
* Right clicking on buttons brings up application options (Move,Size,Minimise,Close,etc)

Favorites Issues?
I have two favorites named "Scobleizer (current)" and "Scobleizer (old)" which distinguish between Scoble's old Userland account and the current Wordpress account. When I select one of these links through any means -- e.g., the favorites center, the favorites menu bar, or the address bar autocomplete list -- it fails to load. When the full pathname of the .url file is in the address bar, hitting enter again causes a file download dialogue to appears; selecting open returns an file permissions error message to appear. I thought it might have been the parentheses, but other favorites with parentheses in the name work as expected.

CSS Background image
In certain cases the backgrounded image of a DIV object is not displayed; see http://www.geekpedia.com/ where the latest news, programming tutorials, etc. are displayed at the top. Now open this page in Firefox, Opera or Internet Explorer 6 and you will see a gradient background (thanks to the background image).

Classic mode UI
In classic mode / remote desktop the "new tab" tab doesn't have an icon on it till you move the mouse over it, so it simply looks like an unfocused dark grey box.

The stop button looks very out of place next to the refresh button. The HTTPS indicator looks even more out of place, as you then have 3 buttons, each with different background colours.

favicons

On some HTTPS sites the favicon will not appear in the location bar or the tab (see https://theseus.idunno.org/ for example). The default HTML icon is not used either, it's the unknown file type.

Problems with Site Size
I have seen issues with both Bloglines and with our in-house helpdesk ticket system (Request Tracker) where the text does not fit in the page correctly. IE is maximized and the text from the article or page is not fully viewable unless I scroll left or right. Did not have this issue in IE 6 or FireFox. Update also seeing this with Sharepoint page as well. I double checked to make sure I wasn't zoomed in or something like before posting this.
Also can I change the text size on one tab and not have it effect all pages?

Problems with Set Home Page
Is there a way to limit the ability to change the home page through the Icon in group policy? Tools => Internet Options does not allow me to set my home page per group policy, but if I click on the home icon and select change my home page I'm allowed to change the page. Big issue in my view - j0217995

Close Other Tabs
(note - I am unable to recreate the bug at this time)
I had a problem with Close other tabs in the tab right click context menu. The option only closes one tab and all others remain open. All remaining tabs cannot be closed. I restarted IE and found that the tabs no longer worked - they were able to be created, but would not accept a URL, also IE would not close. The solution was to end the IE process and the explorer process and then restart them.

Drag and Drop Tabs
When I drag a link to a different tab I get the "ok to drop" icon but the link still opens in the same
tab where I dragged it from. I would expect the link to open in the tab where I drop it.

Focus and mouse scroll wheels
When switching to IE the focus is not on the actual HTML page, so the mouse scroll whee dosn't scroll until you actually select the document by clicking in it

Using a Logitech G7 mouse, clicking the back (thumb) button on the mouse causes IE to go back 2 pages instead of 1. It worked correctly in IE6.

UI repainting
* If I open an instance of IE7 in a remote desktop session under XP, then login at the XP box the UI doesn't refresh completly as Windows switches from the classic theme to luna doing the unlock/login. The triple lines between the navigation button and the tab bar become almost transparent, and show the desktop through them. A minimise/maximise doesn't fix this.

*Sometimes when IE does not have focus and a page is set to refresh in script or meta tag, the refresh page will cause IE to obtain focus.

Search Providers
I don't see the "grey text" telling me which search provider is in use.

MSN/Live Messenger Archved Message Chat Log Viewing is broken by IE7
Viewing Messenger chat logs directly (by viewing the xml archive stored in message history or via searching preview such as with Windows Desktop Search) is broken. On viewing the xml file the information bar alerts that active content is on the page, and the page itself complains that the xsl file necessary to transform the xml is not found; allowing access via the information bar does not make the page visible. Additionally the information bar reappears with the same warning immediately. The archives are viewable in IE 6 and in FireFox. With the current behaviour it is now impossible to view archived chat logs made by messenger with IE (logs are archived when they reach a certain length)."

Possible Event Viewer Problem
After installing the IE7 beta, I am no longer able to access Event Viewer through the Control Panel->Administrator Tools. It gave me this error message:
"MMC cannot open the file C:\WINNT\system32\eventvwr.msc. This may be because the files do not exist, is not an MMC console, or was created by a later version of MMC. This may also be because you do not have sufficient access rights to the file. "
I was able to fix the problem by issuing the following command:
regsvr32 C:\Windows\system32\msxml3.dll
If anyone else has this problem, I hope the command above resolves their issues as well. I have not seen any other confirmation of this problem as I have searched the web. But, I thought I would post anyways to get some feedback.

NTLM Proxy Authentication
We have a WebMarshal proxy server configured to authenticate all users with NTLM authentication. In previous versions of IE, our Windows login credentials were passed on to the proxy server automatically, but in ""IE7"" it keeps popping up with a dialog box prompting for a username and password, and it doesn't seem to be happy with any credentials I give it.
I've tried including and excluding the domain name prefix (ie: DOMAIN\user vs. user), using an administrator account instead of a normal account, etc. The only workaround I have found is to route IE requests through Fiddler with Fiddler's Require Proxy Authentication option enabled. This is not good...

Update 30 Jun 06: It seems that IE was trying to authenticate with the proxy using Kerberos and failing, either because the Kerberos implementation is buggy, or the proxy server is incorrectly configured. Unchecking the "Enable Integrated Windows Authentication" option in Advanced Settings fixed the issue. I thought that this option would have prevented IE from automatically authenticating using NTLM as well, but it appears that NTLM is unaffected.

History Explorer Bar
When the History explorer bar is opened from the View > Explorer Bar > History option, the menu item is checked, but closing the explorer bar fails to remove the checkmark.

Problems with Active Desktop
The desktop background is set by group policy, it can't be changed. However if somehow get the "Active Desktop Recovery" page, I cannot restore my background due to a script error? I am asked if I want to continue to use scripts on this page. No matter what I choose the background image is not displayed again. -- j0217995

Problem with Organize favorites

Click on Favorites--> Organize Favorites.
Click on some favorite link
Click Move
In the dialog box that comes up, you will not see all the folders that are in favorites. Only the first folder comes up.
--sundararajan.s

Drag a shortcut to a folder does not move the shortcut into the folder. This is true even in the Organize Favorites dialog! Combined with the Move bug, this means favorites cannot be reorganized at all. :(
On the favorites tab, right clicking on a URL does bring up a context menu which has Create New Folder on it. But right click in blank space does not bring up menu at all. It should bring up a menu with Create New Folder on it
--sgriffin

RSS feed button
When loading a page, the RSS button enables/disables as appropriate but when switching to a tab, it becomes enabled regardless. When clicking on it in this state, it does nothing.
--DeanEarley

System Menu drag and drop
In previous versions of IE, you could drag-and-drop the system menu icon as a link, much as you can do with an Explorer folder window. This no longer works in IE7. Dragging and dropping tabs to create shortcuts also does not work.

Drag and Drop HTML

In IE6 I could select part of a displayed page and drag to the calendar icon of OL 2003. I'd get a new calendar item with the text as the note. This didn not work with Beta 2.
--pcause

Hyperlinks with "%" in the name do not work in IE7

		  <a href="this_jpg.jpg" "TARGET="_blank">% This "_" works in IE6 or IE7</a><p>
		  <a href="this%jpg.jpg" "TARGET="_blank">% This "%" works in IE6 but Not IE7</a><p>
		  <a href="this_%jpg.jpg" "TARGET="_blank">% This "_%" works in IE6 but Not IE7</a><p>
		  <a href="this_%_jpg.jpg" "TARGET="_blank">% This "_%_" works in IE6 but Not IE7</a><p>
		  <a href="this%_jpg.jpg" "TARGET="_blank">% This "%_" works in IE6 but Not IE7</a><p>

It's not a bug, it's a feature :-) IE7 is correct if it does not support those links, because according to the HTML 4.01 Specification, the `href' attribute value must be a URI reference:

		  [URI]
		    "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax", T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter, August 1998.
		    Note that RFC 2396 updates [RFC1738] and [RFC1808].
		  [...]
		  <!ENTITY % URI "CDATA"
		    -- a Uniform Resource Identifier,
		       see [URI]
		    -->
		  [...]
		  <!ATTLIST A
		    [...]
		    href        %URI;          #IMPLIED  -- URI for linked resource --

According to RFC 3986, which updates RFC 1738 and obsoletes RFC 2396 --

		 2.4.  When to Encode or Decode
		   [...]
		   Because the percent ("%") character serves as the indicator for
		   percent-encoded octets, it must be percent-encoded as "%25" for that
		   octet to be used as data within a URI.  Implementations must not
		   percent-encode or decode the same string more than once, as decoding
		   an already decoded string might lead to misinterpreting a percent
		   data octet as the beginning of a percent-encoding, or vice versa in
		   the case of percent-encoding an already percent-encoded string.

-- the above URI references are not valid, except of the first one. However, the links MUST work in IE7 if you percent-encode `%' as `%25' in the `href' attribute value. You better avoid this and other reserved characters (see the RFC) in your URIs anyway.

and on reviewing this entry it appears, channel9 has a issue with displaying the above correctly too. Compare the edit view (which is correct) with what gets displayed in normal view.

I do not see a difference here, so probably they have fixed it already. -- PointedEars

MS Fingerprint Reader/DigitalPersona and IE7 cs

In IE6 the responsiveness of MS Fingerprint reader and it's associated software DigitalPersona permitted almost immediate logging on to web-sites when a print was 'entered'. In IE7 this process takes considerably longer, at times almost 30 secs. The printaccepted icon occurrs then after a significant delay the info is entered into the appropriate fields and access granted.

In a similar fashion since the installation of IE7, it has become practically impossible to 'register' a new website id & password with a fingerprint through digital persona. It would appear that the digitalpersona software (currently v1.0.1.624) cannot properly identify the website that is being registered. It is possible that this is the problem which causes the slow responsiveness.
--SWalker

Event Viewer help and support

If you click on an event in event viewer and use the "http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp" link for help and support the window does not always open first time after submitting the information. On some occasions it will not open at all.

--AMF

Toolbar does not lock properly

The help button keeps falling off the end of the screen even though it was visible when 'Lock Position' was set.

--Slite

IE7 Zoom Control does not correctly display images styled with filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.dropshadow()

In IE7 Beta 2 Preview 5335.5, an image styled in the CSS with the MS filter:...dropshadow is not rendered correctly.

CSS such as

		   .home #subcol dl img.ci {
		   clear:right; float:right; margin-left:0.0em; margin-bottom:0.25em; 
		   [filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.dropshadow(OffX=5,] OffY=5, 
		   Color='#a0a078', Positive='true'); 
		   position:relative; left:0.25em; top:-0.5em; 
		   }

should float the image right and supply a dropshadow, and it does at 100%. But at increasing zoom factors of 125%, 150%, 200%, etc., the image is progressively displaced left, forcing other elements into seriously-wrong positions.

Commenting out the MS dropshadow filter (and making no other changes, with HTML unchanged)

		   .home #subcol dl img.ci {
		   clear:right; float:right; margin-left:0.0em; margin-bottom:0.25em; 
		   /* [filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.dropshadow(OffX=5,] OffY=5, 
		      Color='#a0a078', Positive='true');   */
		   position:relative; left:0.25em; top:-0.5em; 
		   }

corrects the position of the images, while of course removing the desired dropshadow.

This is observed in IE7 5335.5 running on fully-patched XPSP2, in a site built with FrontPage 2003.
See https://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?SiteID=136&FeedbackID=56954

Sites with major issues with IE7 Beta 2 Preview moved to InternetExplorer7Beta2SiteProblems

Maximizing a flash video causes an open tab to freeze. Video does not get resized and tab cannot be closed. To see this, try resizing a video on http://youtube.com

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IE7 Zoom Control does not correctly display images styled with filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.dropshadow()