Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 for Windows XP (and more) Now Available

Article
06/29/2006

This morning we released IE7 Beta 3 for Windows XP. This version includes improvements in reliability, compatibility, security, and a few end user features. Give it a try at https://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx.

Based on your feedback, we’ve made some changes to IE7. Beta 3 returns the email button to the toolbar customize dialog (one of the most requested features), and enables reordering of tabs by dragging them to the left or right. In this version you can also scroll horizontally while zooming. To improve the RSS experience, IE7 now allows you to update all your RSS feeds on-demand as well as mark them all “READ”.

Beta 3 also contains all the security fixes addressed in the June IE security bulletin, so we encourage all Beta 2 users to upgrade to Beta 3.

Please remember to uninstall any previous IE7 builds before installing this one. IE7 Beta 3 runs on Windows XP SP2, Windows XP x64, and Windows Server 2003 SP1. This beta does not install on Windows Vista Beta 2; a new version of IE7+ in Windows Vista will be available with the next public Windows Vista release soon. IE7 still replaces IE6; if you’re a developer and need to have both IE6 and IE7 on a single machine, I recommend Microsoft Virtual PC (here’s a link to their 45-day free trial version) or Chris Wilson’s post on the subject.

As with Beta 2, we’ll release German, Finnish, Arabic, and Japanese versions in the next few weeks.

I’m looking forward to reading the feedback - positive and negative - as it comes in. I also want to encourage developers, web developers, designers, and IT Pros to use Readiness Toolkit to help you deliver the best possible experience to your sites’ IE7 visitors.

Today’s release is the final beta for IE7. Our next steps are the Release Candidates followed by general availability in the second half of the year.

Thanks,
Dean Hachamovitch
General Manager

Comments

Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Nice...especially tab ordering!
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
As with Beta 2, we’ll release German, Finnish, Arabic, and Japanese versions in the next few weeks.
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No Spanish version??
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
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Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Since about a week ago, I have to click on the favorites icon 3 times, to get the favorites center to open, after I launch the browser.

I uninstalled Beta 2, installed Beta 3, and still have the same problem.

Also, when feeds update, and are bolded in the feeds listing, my feeds icon in the favorites center doesn't display a star.

Both of these problems started happening about a week ago.

Is there some way I can reset something to get this to work again?

Thanks.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
I just realized that these problems seem to coincide with when I installed the new version of Windows Live Messenger, 8.0.

WLM 8.0 also crashes frequently with an error referencing ieframe.dll.

FYI
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
I'm proud to announce that we released the beta 3 release of IE7. We fixed a ton of bugs, incorporated changes based on beta feedback, and continued to improve our security. You can read more about the release on the IE blog and get the new version here.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Great job on the Refresh All, and the favorites center that Does Not Close when I middle click a link, I really appreciate these additions.

Just one more favor, Please set Internet Explorer to automatically decide how to open pop-ups, By Default!!

This is such a useful feature!!

Thanks again.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
The speed is wonderful. I hope there are more performance improvements that can be squeezed out, but this is definitely a big step since beta 2!
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
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Anonymous
June 29, 2006
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Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Beta 3 also should make downloads up to 4GB in size much more reliable. In IE6, downloads over 2GB didn't quite work right.

Please let me know if you see any problems with downloads in the 2-4GB range.

Thanks!
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
This is the first time having bad experience with IE Beta... After installing whenever i open IE, it takes in 100% of CPU, may be due to some add-on, but in no-add on mode works fine. I had disabled all non-microsoft add-ons, but still the same result. So the only way to work is in no-add on mode.!!!!
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Ram, disable all of your add-ons (open the Internet Options dialog from control panel, go to the "Programs" tab, and hit the "manage add-ons" dialog) and then slowly re-enable them one by one until you find the culprit.

Thanks!
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
does not install :( ok beta 2 installed fine for me and worked fine, so i uninstalled beta 2 and tried to install this one but it doesn't not install at all. it says it's installing IE core and such and then it shows a screen that says IE could not install. this makes me a little mad cause how can i test the beta if i can't even install it.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
I can't install because of a registry problem with the HKCRmailto key and HKLMSOFTWAREClassesmailto being corrupt in the registry. I can't open them, delete them. etc. I get an error when i try. Any suggestions?
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
@Travis: In the registry, right-click on the keys and ensure that the Administrators group has FULL CONTROL on these keys.

@Raul: The ie7b3.log file in the C:windows directory likely explains what failed.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
I cannot access the key. It gives me an error when i click on it or when i try to delete it. It must be corrupt or something.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
DOES NOT INSTALL. I followed the directions to uninstal Beta 2 (which installed just fine). This is a 3 week old Dell. Beta 3 will NOT install.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
The Internet Explore Team announced on their blog the availability of the next beta version of the Internet...
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Failed install. Details from ie7beta3.log:
59.734: Copied file: C:WINDOWSsystem32en-USwininet.dll.mui
59.906: DoInstallation: Installing assemblies with source root path: d:5cdbbf8b6d7c03e1263aad81de
59.906: Num Ticks for Copying files : 13969
65.875: DoRegistryUpdates:UpdSpInstallFromInfSection Failed for ProductInstall.GlobalRegistryChanges.Install error: 0x5
65.875: INF_REGISTRY Failed
65.875: DoInstallation:DoRegistryUpdates failed
65.922: Access is denied.
65.922: Internet Explorer 7 installation did not complete.

Select 'OK' to undo the changes that have been made.
65.922: Starting process: C:WINDOWSie7beta3spuninstspuninst.exe /~ -q -z
91.718: Software Update Rollback has completed with return code 0xbc2. This rollback requires a reboot.
91.718: Internet Explorer 7 installation did not complete.

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 has been partially updated and may not work properly.
91.718: Update.exe extended error code = 0x5
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
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Anonymous
June 29, 2006
The new RSS feature: IE7 now allows you to update all your RSS feeds on-demand as well as mark them all “READ”.

I don't see those options, where might they be?

Thanks.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
O Beta 3 da próxima versão do Internet Explorer foi liberado para download. Essa parece ser a última...
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
PingBack from http://lucentwarrior.com/arbyzee/archives/279
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
I've installed but it didn't work here. When I click on the IE logo the screen blinks and nothing happens... :(

I'm using IE 6 again.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
PingBack from http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2006/06/29/ie-7-beta-3-released/
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
For all those who get failed installs with no registry problems, I had that problem too until I disabled my antivirus, spysweeper and unchecked downloading updates. I had to do the same for beta 2.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Somehow works for me.

I like how (some) buttons show destination URLs when hovered over. Add it to the focus (TAB) event too.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Marcelo - I bet you've got a plug-in that doesn't play nicely with IE7. You should have run IE7 in no add-ons mode (available from start.all programs.accessories.system tools) and verified that IE7 runs when no plugins (like toolbars) are running. Then you could have used manage add-ons to disable the plug-ins one by one until you found the culprit that was causing IE7 to fail to load. Then you could have looked for an update to that plug-in. Just sayin'.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
BUG: Right-click on a saved Web page or archive, the default option shows as "opennew" instead of "Open" or "Open in New Window".

(Submitted to Microsoft Connect also.)
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
So I guess this means, that although August 2006 was slated as the Beta 3 date, there was a descision to give up on making all the needed fixes.

Guess that's why there has been no responses on the IE7 Feedback site, because, well, none of the feedback is actually going to be used.

There's an excelent post on PPK about the massive amounts of broken JavaScript, DOM, and CSS in IE7 Beta2... its not like you guys haven't known that there has been serious omitions thus far in the fixing of IE6, and now IE7.

So, I guess we have to wait till IE8 now... and since IE7 final is slated for 2007, that would make IE8 at least 2008.

So, again we all ask, come IE8, in 2008+... are we going to see support for DOM Methods like setAttribute(), addEventListener(), and prototyping on the DOMElements????

* = uhm, yeah, we are talking full support, not partial, including Namespaces, and it has to work on all elements, not some... not with non-standards attributes like 'accessKey' etc.

Severely disapointed.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Are we allowed to use IE7 Beta 3 in a live production network? I cannot wait until the Release Candidate.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Runs fantastic and super fast!
Great job, guys!

Love the new look of third-party toolbars (borders etc.)

Roland
(Regular IE chat participant)
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
My only two gripes are:

https://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/viewfeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=65110&siteid=136 hasn't been fixed yet.

And I recall reading on the Connect site when people were suggesting to re-order tabs that it this feature would be implemented in future releases of IE, i.e. IE8 and not 7.

If this is the case, is there any possible way to include the feature to middle click on a folder within the Links toolbar and have them open in a group of tabs? This is the ONLY thing missing and I have seen this requested quite a few times on the Connect site. Please?
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
@Raul: Run Regedit. Right-click HKCRgopher, and change permissions to give Administrators Full Control. Setup should be successful.

@GameKid: I believe this is already fixed in the latest builds. Thanks!

@Steve: No one from Microsoft ever said that August was the Beta-3 date.

We're looking very closely at Connect feedback. There are some internal snafus around ensuring that the public bugs get updated with our comments, but rest assured that every bug gets looked at. We've taken a large number of changes from CONNECT.

We will be looking at the JScript changes you're asking for in a future release.

Thanks!
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
I didn't think it would ever happen, but... IE7b3 made me switch back from Firefox. It's fast, stable, and not as much a resource hog as Firefox is.

Good work, MS!
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
PingBack from http://malcom.xorg.pl/blog/archiwum/2006/06/29/internet-explorer-7-beta-3/
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Microsoft today released Beta 3 of Internet Explorer 7. The main changes are around the user interface,...
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
PingBack from http://www.rodtempleton.net/?p=110
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Is it possible to have an option to promote a tab to a new window... or "open tab in a new window"? Sometimes I have multiple pages open in different tabs and I'd just rather have them in separate windows so I could float them next to each other.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
hi
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
I see that the IE Team at Microsoft have released Beta 3 of Internet Explorer 7 to the general public.I...
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Here is a screenshot of the forthcoming FreeTextBox4. We'll have a preview release next week.

...
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
@Scott, simply hit CTRL+N or File | New Window to open the current tab in a new window.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
I have a request for a feature in the RC versions: mouse gestures! I'm so used to have them in Opera and Firefox that I click right mouse button and move left to get back even in IE... I takes me a second to realize it isn't supported on the Microsoft browser! What a pity!
I've found a free plug-in, but why not build it inside IE? It shouldn't be complicated at all!
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
@Eric,

The "opennew" bug happens on my system with Beta 3 installed as well, so I don't think it's fixed.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
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Anonymous
June 29, 2006
@Jace: The fix is in the RC1 builds that are not public.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Disk Cleanup borked by Beta 3.

XP's Disk Cleanup tool is messed up after installing Beta 3.

Instead of showing "Downloaded Program Files" at the top of the list, it shows:

"@C:WindowsSystem32occache.dll,-..."

The button on the lower right is also messed up, it says:

"WSsystem32occ"

When I uninstall IE 7 Beta 3, it goes back to normal.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
@Eric,

Thanks for clarifying :-)
Anonymous
June 29, 2006

Not sure when it happened, but I have become completely dependent on IE7. As I mentioned early today,...
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
> We will be looking at the JScript changes you're asking for in a future release.

No JScript, please. He was asking for JavaScript. :)
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
@Eric

Is there anyway you'd be able to address my previous comment? It's regarding a bug that was reported in connect and then closed due to it being fixed yet it is still not fixed in IE7 Beta 3.

Also I do believe that the feature request of being able to open up a group of tabs from a folder on the Links toolbar has been requested quite frequently.

Thank you Eric!
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Having same issue that I had with beta 2 (public), but not beta 2 (preview) - as soon as it tries to open multiple tabs, it crashes. Internet Options in Control Panel allowed me to set it to open only one tab. It still crashes (which didn't happen in beta 2 public). So, now it's completely unusable.
Here is the crash information:

AppName: iexplore.exe
AppVer: 7.0.5450.4
AppStamp: 449be0cd

ModName: mshtml.dll
ModVer: 7.0.5450.4
ModStamp: 449c16c7

fDebug: 0
Offset: 000f1f0f

Not sure if this would be helpful to anyone or not, but would really like to give this a shot.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
@Nocturnal - I responded in the comments to my post as well, but thought I'd repeat here. The entry that Filiz made was in error - we haven't fixed this yet internally, but we do know of the bug. You can reorder favourites in the links toolbar if you go into the "links" folder in the favourites center and do it there. It's unfortunately unlikely that we will fix the bug of being able to manipulate them directly from the links bar for IE7.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
PingBack from http://blog.x123.net/2006/06/29/ie-7-beta-released-to-public/
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
I like Microsoft Soft weaire
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
PingBack from http://www.michelvanhelden.com/2006/06/29/explorer-beta-3-released/
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
@ Matty

The new RSS improvements are detailed over at the RSS team blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archive/2006/06/29/650907.aspx
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
@Max

Here is what I am talking about:

http://www.randomfix.com/images/fcenter.jpg - this is where you said to make the changes.

http://www.randomfix.com/images/links.jpg - this is where the changes should have taken place but it does not matter where I try to reorder the links, it doesn't affect the Link's toolbar sub-folders.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Once bitten, twice shy.

Waisted about 6 hours today thanks to this beta not installing. Never had a problem with a piece of Microsoft software before this. I'm finally back to IE6 because I could not even do a restore point back to IE7, Beta 2 because all text in any of the menu items was missing. For now I'll use IE6 and FireFox until IE7 SP1 is out.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
IE7 ベータ３
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
PingBack from http://www.bitelia.com/2006/06/29/internet-explorer-7-beta-3/
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Good work guys, just one question for now: I just upgraded from IE6 and was wondering if it's okay to install the Developer Toolbar refresh from March, or if we need to wait for a new version that targets Beta 3. Thanks!
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
I'd really like to see IE7 set focus on the address bar after opening a net tab. It's a UI behaviour users have picked up with other browsers and since you've kept the key shortcuts and many other feature, it'd be nice to add this little candy.

Not sure if this has been suggested in the past, but if so, I do apologize. :)
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
ops.. by "net", I mean a "new tab". Sorry.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
PingBack from http://browsing.ru/2006/06/30/ie7-beta-3/
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
andr3: The behavior that you describe is what I get after installing Beta 3. Whether I hit CTRL-T or click on the New Tab button, when it opens up a new tab, the focus is on the address bar with "about:Tabs" highlighted and waiting to be typed over.

What behavior are you getting?
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
I had the same problem as KerryF. To install, I had to enter Safe Mode with networking and install from there - although, when rebooting normally, half of the stuff that was supposed to start up, didn't - including my firewall and WLAN utility - so I had to reboot once more after that.

However, it does works as it should after this long task.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
PingBack from http://thinkabdul.com/2006/06/30/internet-explorer-7-beta-3-for-windows-xp-and-more-now-available/
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Hmmm .... so you can't combine tabs into one screen and scroll them both side by side? That would be quite an interesting feature, actually. Right-clicking my tab and seeing a "Combine With ..." button for the various other tabs I have open. Don't know if it would work well for more than two tabs, but I think it would work nice for two. Then people wouldn't have to worry about opening up a new window all the time.

shrug Just a thought ....
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
PingBack from http://www.last-child.com/ie7-beta-3-is-available/
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
PingBack from http://www.buayacorp.com/archivos/internet-explorer-7-beta-3/
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
For the record, I get te same log entries as KerryF above. XP home admin account with every other program turned off. The troubleshooting guide is no help. The end of the log file is:

200.281: Copied file: C:WINDOWSsystem32en-USurlmon.dll.mui
200.328: Copied file: C:WINDOWSsystem32en-USwebcheck.dll.mui
200.375: Copied file: C:WINDOWSsystem32en-USWinFXDocObj.exe.mui
200.406: Copied file: C:WINDOWSsystem32en-USwininet.dll.mui
200.594: DoInstallation: Installing assemblies with source root path: e:18cca5205a8250aea6
200.594: Num Ticks for Copying files : 43813
206.297: DoRegistryUpdates:UpdSpInstallFromInfSection Failed for ProductInstall.GlobalRegistryChanges.Install error: 0x5
206.297: INF_REGISTRY Failed
206.297: DoInstallation:DoRegistryUpdates failed
206.485: Access is denied.
206.485: Internet Explorer 7 installation did not complete.

Select 'OK' to undo the changes that have been made.
206.485: Starting process: C:WINDOWSie7beta3spuninstspuninst.exe /~ -q -z
265.344: Software Update Rollback has completed with return code 0xbc2. This rollback requires a reboot.
265.344: Internet Explorer 7 installation did not complete.

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 has been partially updated and may not work properly.
265.344: Update.exe extended error code = 0x5
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
@rodtempleton: Crash on new tab is typically caused by an outdated version of Google Desktop Search.

@andr3: Opening a new tab should put focus in the address bar by default. Are you seeing something different?

@S.K.: This is an interesting suggestion that comes up from time to time. We call it "Tab pinning" but we won't get to it for IE7, I'm afraid.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
PingBack from http://nizhongmin.com/2006/06/29/internet-explorer-7-beta-3/
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
PingBack from http://blog.tinyau.net/archives/2006/06/30/ie7-beta-3-released/
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Ha! Guess this proves all those "August" people wrong! Great job, IE team!
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
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Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Good work, guys! One of my new developers mentioned to me today that he'd just installed the IE7 Beta and was quite happy.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
i wanna select tabs when the mouse is moved onto them:D
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
PingBack from http://www.centplus.com/yes-we-are-still-all-about-searchposted-by-marissa-mayer-3/
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
IE7 Beta 3 does not work here. Instructions that MS-MVP gave me at microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general have been fruitless. I was just fine upgrading IE through IE7 Beta 2. IE7 Beta 3 has me stumped.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Having told everyone that Beta 3 is available for download, I was a little short on details.
The IE...
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Does Control-L finally set the focus to the URL entry field (like all the other browsers on this planet) instead of opening a total useless window ?
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
PingBack from http://jackal9.wordpress.com/2006/06/30/internet-explorer-7-beta-3/
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
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Anonymous
June 29, 2006
in some forums containing the photos, I can ONLY view half of a photo instead of the whole one.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
PingBack from http://www.tsevdos.com/2006/06/30/ie-beta-3/
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
@Jens C.: Control L brings up the "Open" dialog, as it has done for ~10 years.

Alt+D sets focus to the address bar, as it always has, and as it does in SeaMonkey, Firefox, etc.
Anonymous
June 29, 2006
Alt+D not on my system (DE-XP) ?!

CONTROL-L ... Well yeah it brings up the "Open" dialog which is imho totally useless (hinthint* CONTROL-O does the same?)

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ALT-D & CONTROL-L works in Firefox & friends.
Anonymous
June 30, 2006
min/max-width/height is finally working with images. Superb.
As promised by Markus, a float bug is fixed, too. But there still is a problem with my :hover menu, as you can see here when moving the mouse: http://design-noir.de/webdev/
Anonymous
June 30, 2006
hi...

in address bar, after i type IDN and Ctrl+enter Key do not work properly...

ascii domains work fine... but Internationalized domain names only has such bug that was not last beta2.
Anonymous
June 30, 2006
Over at Microsoft&#8217;s IEBlog, General Manager Dean Hachamovitch yesterday announced the availability of Internet Explorer Beta 3:
This morning we released IE7 Beta 3 for Windows XP. This version includes improvements in reliability, compatibility,..
Anonymous
June 30, 2006
please make it customisable with background colors and pictures
Anonymous
June 30, 2006
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Anonymous
June 30, 2006
@rodtempleton: Crash on new tab is typically caused by an outdated version of Google Desktop Search.

Eric: This worked. Updated to latest Google Desktop and problem is gone. Many thanks.
Anonymous
June 30, 2006
Pingback from http://ecaggiani.blogspot.com/2006/06/ie7-beta-3-available-for-download.html
Anonymous
June 30, 2006
The icons on the left hand side of the tabs are displaying incorrectly for me, ie when I'm on the BBC homepage it's showing the icon for another website.
Anonymous
June 30, 2006
The only other gripe that I've found since installing beta 3 is the tendency of the Links toolbar to automatically hide itself. I check under View -> Toolbars, and it is still enabled, but completely hidden. Turning it off and then re-enabling it, puts it on the extreme right where I can drag it over again. The toolbar is locked, but I'm at a loss as to why this might be happening.
Anonymous
June 30, 2006
From the IE blog, IE7 Beta 3 has been released.&nbsp;
I popped it on my machine last night.&nbsp; So...
Anonymous
June 30, 2006
Christopher Vaughan [MSFT] - "
Marcelo - I bet you've got a plug-in that doesn't play nicely with IE7."

*****************************

Christopher I had the same problem as Marcelo... (and I have seen 3 or 4 posts from others with smae issue) I tried your suggestion and it did not help.

What happens is when I launch the browser it appears for a fraction of a second and then closes. I had to revert back to IE6. I tried the upgrade twice with the same result.

I was using IE7 Beta 2 for months without any issues...

Help Me Please
Anonymous
June 30, 2006
Steve, do you feel better now?

Everyone who reads this blog knows that the "new" IE team has only existed for about a year and half or so. IE7 is a huge leap forward, and yet you give them no credit.

It's been noted in comments that they're having some delays in writing back to some of the bugs in Connect even though they're reading them... but if your bugs are as worthless as I suspect from your rant, I wouldn't be surprised if no one bothers to write back to you. Why don't you post the URLs to your bugs so others can validate them?
Anonymous
June 30, 2006
Good job guys!
One annoying thing that's IE7 only is that I used to use Alt + D to get to the address bar then TAB it to the search field in IE 6 and still do in FireFox. Now in IE7, I need to tab twice because the Refresh and Stop button is in the way. I have no idea who else out there use this feature (Alt + D), but to me it is invaluable.
A couple of post talked about their liking of the CTRL + A selecting entire address bar feature, I think this can readily be done with Alt + D regardless where the focus (where the mouse last left clicked) is.

Again, good job guys!
Anonymous
June 30, 2006
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June 30, 2006
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Anonymous
June 30, 2006
@Padraic: When you say "authentication picture", can you elaborate on what you're referring to? The bug described here: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/06/01/613132.aspx is fixed if that's what you're asking about?
Anonymous
June 30, 2006
No big deal, but is it just my computer or the Open Folder option from the finished download dialogue fails to perform?
Anonymous
June 30, 2006
@EricLaw
Yes, that was the one I was referring to. I'm glad to hear that it has been fixed now.
Anonymous
June 30, 2006
Do you think it possible to enable in the search bar the CTRL + Backspace function to backspace by word? Now if I do CTRL + Backspace, it gives me a rectangular character. I just this is a very nice function in all other places in Windows.
Anonymous
June 30, 2006
the highlighting is off when one searches for text on a page that is magnified. Think this can be fixed?

Another thing about the magnifying tool: say I am reading Wikipedia, I care more about the text than the pictures, and I don't really like reading small font, if I enlarge the page by CTRL + + or CTRL + mouse scroll up, IE enlarges the pictures too, which doesn't cause much trouble except the horizontal length of the page is also increased, I had to really scroll horizontally to view the text or I have to compromise by not enlarging the page too much. Any chance that the final product may offer two kinds of page zooming?

Finally, is there a reason why the page zooming using CTRL + mouse wheel has been reversed, i.e., IE6: CTRL + mouse wheel down to enlarge/mouse wheel up to shrink; IE7: the reverse.
Anonymous
July 01, 2006
WHAT HAPPENED?? I just upgraded IE7 beta-2 to beta-3. It now takes 10-15 seconds to load. I'm going back to IE-6 until this is fixed, or dumping IE entirely.
Anonymous
July 01, 2006
Microsoft has released beta 3 of Internet Explorer 7, and you can get it here. As you'd expect from a third beta, it's got a bunch of bug fixes, but there are also some changes to the way it looks....
Anonymous
July 01, 2006
I HATE IT...HATE IT... HATE IT! Now "Delete Temporary Internet Files" deletes ALL web site FAVICONS :(
My desktop is a mass of bland-looking squares which I'm forced to read text to find the desired shortcut.
Anonymous
July 01, 2006
Does anyone have a list of all the html and css1/2/3 that is NOT by internet explorer 6 and/or 7?

It would make my work as web developer so much more easy.

Martin T
Anonymous
July 01, 2006
En mis navegaciones diarias,&nbsp;por pura casudalidad fui dando a un sitio perfecto para conseguir los mp3 con descarga directa.si quieres alguna cancion un single . y no la haz conseguido date una vuelta por mp3000.net&nbsp;alli en dicha
Anonymous
July 01, 2006
"Restore Tabs" not Active in Beta 2 & 3?
Anonymous
July 01, 2006
Microsoft has released another beta of their highly anticipated browser Internet Explorer 7. We took it around the track.

Full Review at: http://www.synergymx.com/stuff_detail.asp?ID=104
Anonymous
July 01, 2006
I have upgraded my browser to the latest version IE7 beta 3 for a week, it works very well, sleeker UI, Faster speed of opening the pages, easier to operate etc..but yet the only problem i have is that I can ONLY view half of a photo when i open a forum that contains the photos. i think that this bug would be that hard to be fixed by you guys..thanks!
Anonymous
July 01, 2006
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Anonymous
July 01, 2006
@Seanxwang: Which forums are you referring to? It seems likely that they may have a bug on their side.
Anonymous
July 02, 2006
Hello,
I have successfully uninstalled IE7 Beta 2 (not preview or anything, simply Beta 2) in order to install IE7 Beta 3. But when ever I try to run the IE7BETA3-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe, it restarts my computer. When I start it back up (my computer) it says that windows is recovering from a critical error or something along those lines.

Any idea why this is happning? As soon as I double click the setup: IE7BETA3-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe, my computer crashes/restarts. Before this, I had successfully installed IE7 Beta 2, with no setup errors at all, suddenly for IE7 Beta 3, there are setup error.

Another note is, the file IE7BETA3-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe, has 'no' setup icon, its just one of the dos command prompt window icons, its as if the image icon is broken.
Here is a image:
http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/1557/selection7ty.png

I am running a Windows XP Pro 5.1 Service Pack 2 Build 2600

Please help!
Anonymous
July 02, 2006
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Anonymous
July 02, 2006
Excellent, Installed perfectly, less cpu usage than firefox, the only problem I am having is that the bar where the tabs are located as well as around the address bar and between the rightside buttons the blueish color of the interface doesnt continue. Rather adopts the black background of my desktop. Tried uninstalling and installing and updating Java but no fix. Just to let you know.

Besides that, excellent product.
Anonymous
July 02, 2006
I have installed IE7 b3, however it has caused a conflict in Outlook Today (Outlook 2002). All links are now not working.
Anonymous
July 02, 2006
@Aaron: Reboots are generally an indication of hardware problems (either disk or memory). Please scan your harddisk for errors and run a memory diagnostic (http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp) to rule these out as the problem.
Anonymous
July 02, 2006
HI,
Again

Anyone has any recommendation on my IE7 issue explained in my previous post.
Thanks

Sal
Anonymous
July 02, 2006
I missed this due to my mostly disconnected state during the weekend, but on Friday (our time) we released...
Anonymous
July 02, 2006
@Ian,

Many have been posted here before, and in the chats, but here are a few.

Keep in mind, I have been keeping notes in a spreadsheet, of over 56 separate bugs (no dups in the system as of yet) however, I'm not going to enter another, until this system is taken seriously by the MS team.

PS For starters, how about re-adding the Feedback link to this blog? It was a handy jumping point for those of us already here.

DOMNodeInserted not supported:
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=134625

Favorite length too short:
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=75379

DOM Strings returned, not correct:
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=70511

DOM setAttribute not fully supported:
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=70509

Zooming/Scaling messes up the UI chrome:
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=69107

prompt dialog, has sadly not been fixed since it was first implemented. It looks like my 13 year old kid coded it, in 2min in VB. (and is why it is broken)
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=61398

And, to add to the list...
Prototyping the DOM, not supported
CSS Selectors... wow, where to begin the lack of support there...

As for the "worth" of my bugs, maybe you didn't read my "rant", but keep in mind, that there are several thousand people that need to code content for the web / applications every day. We spend a very long time, trying to get workarounds for all the IE bugs.

What ticks us off, to the point that we rant on this blog, is that this is IT!... this is our only forum, to complain about the lack of effort, in fixing the hundreds of minor things wrong with this browser. Ok, fine, "this" team has only had a year to put IE back into the game, but there are minor things, you would have thought they could have done while sipping their coffee.

E.g. The file selection dialog, that gets popped up from an <input type="file"/> tag. Why on earth, does this still show the Windows 95 chrome? My calendar puts that at.. hmmm, 10 years old!

Ditto for the "quick tabs" scroll bar!

Basically what it boils down to, is the simple fact that IE was only put back into development because Firefox, and Opera were starting to give users, and developers a way better option. What the market always complains about, is that with the Monopoly that MS has, they didn't need to develop (or so they thought) for 5 years on this, thus, ZERO inovation, zero improvments.

What we developers know, is that once IE7 ships, and IE almost gets caught up to the other browsers on the market, they will then sit back again, and do nothing.

The infuriating part, is that we, the developers of the world, could do a HECK of a lot more exciting, unique and quite honestly, gob smackingly amazing development, if IE7 supported some of the basic features within the DOM/CSS world. However since we have to keep supporting IE (due to market monopoly dominance), we are stuck to tone-down our development, to accomodate the lowest common denominator.

Do you have any idea what could be created, if things like:

HTMLInputElement.prototype..... was supported?

Anyway, sorry my rant bothered you Ian, but for those of us that deal with this stuff every day, letting the IE team know, that they are 2 suits short of a deck on this delivery, and the commitment to the Feedback site, (the first and only public bug-tracking system MS has ventured into for the browser), is the ONLY way that they will know that they are missing the mark.

When folks jump on this Blog, saying "This is great, best browser ever, please, please, please ship it soon!" It is extremely misleading, as those of us that know, know that it isn't ready, it is not complete, and the attention to detail just isn't there yet.
Anonymous
July 02, 2006
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Anonymous
July 02, 2006
I forgot. I have a suggestion: Why don't you people at Microsoft and more specifically IE team start writing a download manager program to ship with IE? Traditionally, the download managers of web browsers have been very weak compared to those 3rd party programs. I liked Firefox's download manager because of it's simple and beautiful way of handling downloads, compared to that of IE. But that is not enough. I'm now using Internet Download Accelerator V5.0, but I'd be happy if I got a Microsoft product, perfectly matched with IE with extreme management and speed capabilities. This would be a great advantage over Firefox, isn't it?!
Anonymous
July 02, 2006
Steve-- This is good stuff, but they do distinguish between a feature request and a bug.

The QT scrollbar thing looks fine to me, and does it really matter that the xp upload dialog isn't purty? how often do you see that anyway? note: Looks fine on Vista....

I'm not much of a webdev... What things could you do if "HTMLInputElement.prototype" was supported?

Ehsan-- I saw a registry key to put the menus at the top... http://fiddlertool.com/dl/IE7MenuAtTop.reg

In the chats, MS said they didn't have time to write a download manager for 7 but they'd think about it later... as you know, there are plugins that work in 6 and 7.
Anonymous
July 02, 2006
I see all that feedback about respecting the system ClearType setting has been ignored.

There were plenty of suggestions in the old thread about ways to handle it, so that most people are informed simply about the feature and can easily switch it on system-wide, without introducing app-specific ClearType settings.

ClearType is a great feature, but the IE specific setting is the wrong way to go about it, and I can't figure out why Microsoft would want to do it this way.
Anonymous
July 02, 2006
Beta 3 is available for Internet Explorer 7. Some nice improvments have been made since beta 2:

C
Anonymous
July 03, 2006
PingBack from http://sharenkoto.org/blog/?p=16
Anonymous
July 03, 2006
Hi there,

I've installed IE 7 beta 3 and I notice that some posts in the desktop screenshot thread (at neowin + other sites) are not clickable. I can hover an image and I see the link to deviantart / imageshack, but when I click on the link nothing happens. I have to right-click and choose 'open link in new tab' to see the deviantart / imageshack page.

Does anybody else have this problem or did you come up with a solution? Help is appreciated !!
Anonymous
July 03, 2006
1-Menus on top! Oooh yeah! Thanks for that registry entry, Shaun.
But I just wondered, if it is possible to re-position the menus using a registry entry, why on earth didn't you let me drag the menu bar there? Isn't it against Microsoft principles of UI design?!

2-I recently found something like a bug:
I remove the Command Bar buttons using "Customize Command Bar" menu item, and the next time I start IE they're just back there!

3-I still believe your graphics designer could create icons for Refresh, Stop and Search buttons that would fit better with standard Back and Forward buttons (which are recently appearing everywhere on any Microsoft product-Thanks to Vista.)
The buttons appear very "flat" compared to Back and Forward buttons, which are much like two attractive, glossy spheres.

4-Tabs appear a little ugly when Windows is set to use its classic appearance. The selected tab's colors makes the tab appear round, and that doesn't match with the rest of the interface.

5-Again, in classic view, the Back and Forward buttons are well pushed into the form but Refresh, Stop and Search buttons don't have that harmony.

6-The History icon in the drop-down menu beside the Forward button has jagged edges. A smoother icon would be better.

And there are no other problems in the UI. Thank you dear IE team.
Anonymous
July 03, 2006
I can't install IE7 Beta 3 because of a corrupt mailto key in the registry (hklmsoftwareclassesmailto)...has anyone figured out how to solve this problem yet?
Anonymous
July 03, 2006
Hey,

it would be nice if you could help me out with this problem:

After installing Beta3 (it worked just fine while running Beta2) I get the following error when I try to run an external program that relies on an ActiveX-Control:

"One or more
ActiveX controls could not be displayed because either: 1) Your current
security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls on this page, or 2) You
have blocked a publisher of one of the controls As a result, the page may
not display correctly."

I tried setting my IE-Security-Settings to low (i.e. Custom Level) and changed a reg-key so that the "My Computer" tab is displayed again as a Security Zone (and I enabled running ActiveX-Controls there), but the error persists.

Other browser-related ActiveX-Controls like Acrobat work fine.

Thanks for your help,
Niko
Anonymous
July 03, 2006
@Ehsan: 1> Dragging the command bars around takes a LOT of code and if we had more time, we probably would have spent it on other things like "Find on page". We hope to offer more customizability for a future release, but for now, I'm hosting the regkey that Shaun pointed out for advanced users who like menus on top.

2> This is an unfortunate limitation in the current code. You can't get rid of the command bar even by removing the commands from it. Again, something for the next version.

@Mafuyu: Did you try right-clicking on the registry key to ensure that Administrators have Full Control permissions?

@Niko: What external program are you using? What control are you trying to use?
Anonymous
July 03, 2006
@Eric,

thanks for your reply.
It's a german program called "StampIt", it prints out stamps on a label printer. It uses a browser control as an interface (the program "forms" are stored as htmls in the app-folder) but it uses a lot of own dlls which IE is apparantly prohibiting it from running...weird! I've had the same error with other (unrelated) programs, where the program itself runs fine, but when it gets to a function that requires running an ActiveX it gives out the error mentioned above.

It probably is something that the program-manufacturers can provide a patch for once the IE final comes out, so I wouldnt worry too much about it if I were you :-)! But as I said, it worked fine with Beta2, now with Beta3, it obviously doesn't.

Thanks,
Niko
Anonymous
July 03, 2006
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Anonymous
July 03, 2006
DataLogen: Is the ActiveX control you're using written by a third-party company? It would be interesting to see what flags and options they are passing into WinINET and whether they are calling the Unicode ("W") versions of the functions.

I suspect the issue here is that the newer version of WinINET is assuming that inbound characters are UTF-8 encoded, while in the past IE6 was using ANSI.

If you can't set the codepage on the WinINET handle using an InternetSetOption, one alternative is to convert your filename to %-encoded UTF-8 before passing it into WinINET.
Anonymous
July 03, 2006
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Anonymous
July 04, 2006
Ever since I downloaded IE 7.0, my blog and evryones else's at MSN Spaces take a long time to load. Is this an IE problem or a Space problem?
Anonymous
July 04, 2006
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Anonymous
July 04, 2006
It's great to see that from a home-user perspective that sites running the Internet Zone always have visible URLs (even in popups) and the general idiot-proofing which should help combat phishing.

It's a real pain, though, for my company's application which we deliver to our clients via the Internet. We've gone to pains to try and make it look-and-feel more like a windows application than a web site.

So, by the looks of the beta, we'll be telling our clients to add our site to the trusted site list which will keep them from seeing address bars on all of our dialogs and user interface. My question is, is there a way we can programatically detect whether our site is a trusted site (on the client-side) so we can warn our users that they need to add us to the trusted site list?
Anonymous
July 04, 2006
Great imporvments and great works

@ErickLaw [MSFT]

Just a Quick Question

When you say "next version" can you tell us ,what's the cycle of build release,or better said, how often new builds will be released?,and if improvments that won't make it to IE7 final,will be added in newer builds,or a new whole entire version,Exmaple IE8?

The dev world can't wait until IE8 too far from here

Sorry for my poor english,hope is understood

Eduardo Valencia
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July 04, 2006
@ Eric Law

The funny thing is that once IE7 is out, the most downloaded and shared file on the net for the next few months, will be a registry key to fix the toolbar positioning that ie7 broke.

Can this not be added as a feature in the options?

As an IT admin, I don't really want everyone and their cousin to start launching *.reg files to fix bugs. It doesn't set a good precedent for secure networks.

I also agree with the others, that Clear Type should definately be turned off. I've installed the Beta on 12 PCs for users to check it out, and test our applications and the first thing they all complained about was the Fuzzy Text. What was very anoying is that we never set this to be on, and it was turned off in Windows.

Now I wonder, will there be an admin pack that will allow us to fix all these mistakes when we install across the network?

01.) Change Clear Type to off.
02.) Apply Registry fix to put the menu where it belongs.
03.) ETC.

Regarding 2: I read here that the incorrect placement of the menu bar at the bottom was on purpose! Something about the URL bar had to be on top? This makes no sense at all, nor does the argument that it is to prevent rampant spread of viruses and spyware and adware and fishing problems that occur in Internet Explorer. I can not see how the placement of the URL, causes the user to trust or not trust a site. I am okay with the idea to have it purmanantly turned on but it should always be below the menu, and be below the navigation buttons.

We also noticed that the browser will sometimes self-destruct for no apparent reason, just completely shutting down. There does not appear to be any reason or action to cause it other than waiting.
Anonymous
July 04, 2006
@Mark: If you're having problems with tabbed browsing, you may have an outdated plugin (e.g. Google desktop) that you need to update.

@Eduardo: When I say "next version", I'm referring to the next significant release (e.g. IE8).

@RichardM: There's no mechanism using just HTML/Script to detect the zone that you're running in. ActiveX controls can detect the zone, however.
Anonymous
July 04, 2006
this is a home computer. How do i restrict limited account from turning off phishing filters using the gpedit.msc? which one do i use Computer configuration or User configuration? i want to make sure i'm doing it correctly.
Anonymous
July 04, 2006
@EricLaw: Thanks for your suggestions. What I did was to write a function to %-encode the URL. This solved the problem, and it now works fine with both IE6 and IE7. (And there were no third parties involved here, just me and the WinINET ActiveX.)
Anonymous
July 04, 2006
New bug?
Divs in absolute position with width=auto can be larger than the window (and larger than in beta 2 or Firefox).
Anonymous
July 04, 2006
@LarryJ: IT admins will use group policy to deploy configuration options. The IE Administrators kit allows you to set the IE options for your organization as desired.

If you're finding that IE closes without warning, the most likely culprit is a buggy plugin. Try running IE in No Add-ons mode.
Anonymous
July 04, 2006
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Anonymous
July 05, 2006
@EricLaw: In my VB6 project I have a reference to "Microsoft Internet Transfer Control 6.0 (SP4)" in %SYSTEMROOT%System32MSINET.OCX. My file version is 6.0.88.62. I believe your guess that it shipped with VB6 is true.
Anonymous
July 05, 2006
IE7 is great. But the installation of Beta3 failed (Setup says: Installtion did not complete, pleas resart...). Beta2 works fine.
I have adminrights and i turned off antivirus and firewall.
Can someone help me?

Here an extraction of the log file:

00:48.188: INFO: |Inst. IE >>> >[BEGIN]------------------------------
00:48.235: INFO: |Inst. IE >>> SKIP[FALSE]>>Looking for skip clauses
00:48.313: INFO: |Inst. IE >>> SKIP[FALSE]>> Adding [FALSE] Condition: !_psdStateData->GetIsInitSuccessful()
00:48.360: INFO: |Inst. IE >>> SKIP[FALSE]>> Adding [FALSE] Condition: !g_pApp->GetState()->GetResultCouldInstallPreIEProg()
00:48.391: INFO: |Inst. IE >>> SKIP[FALSE]>> Adding [FALSE] Condition: g_pApp->GetState()->GetOptIEAKMode()==IEAK_BRANDING
00:48.438: INFO: |Inst. IE >>> SKIP[FALSE]>>Result: RUNNING This Phase
00:48.485: INFO: Released Package Installer Mutex
00:48.531: INFO: |Inst. IE >>> Waiting for Internet Explorer installation to complete...
00:48.578: INFO: Process 2360 created for 'update.exe /quiet /norestart /er /log:C:WINDOWS', starting in path 'e:9272d649f17818f88037e6update'
00:54.469: INFO: Process 'update.exe /quiet /norestart /er /log:C:WINDOWS' exited with exit code 1013
00:54.516: INFO: Acquired Package Installer Mutex
00:54.547: ERROR: |Inst. IE >>> Internet Explorer installation completed with errors, exitresult=0x00000000, exitcode=0x000003f5
Anonymous
July 05, 2006
I had IE7 Beta 2, and it worked just fine. I uninstalled it and tried to install Beta 3, multiple times, but no go. The problem IS NOT covered by the trouble shooting link the installer puts on the desktop. Here's the log:

168.187: DoInstallation: Installing assemblies with source root path: c:7a4f54337dc06bbac92765
168.203: Num Ticks for Copying files : 30422
181.531: DoRegistryUpdates:UpdSpInstallFromInfSection Failed for ProductInstall.GlobalRegistryChanges.Install error: 0x5
181.531: INF_REGISTRY Failed
181.531: DoInstallation:DoRegistryUpdates failed
184.594: Access is denied.
184.797: Internet Explorer 7 installation did not complete.

Select 'OK' to undo the changes that have been made.
188.094: Starting process: C:WINDOWSie7beta3spuninstspuninst.exe /~ -q -z
274.265: Software Update Rollback has completed with return code 0xbc2. This rollback requires a reboot.
274.281: Internet Explorer 7 installation did not complete.

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 has been partially updated and may not work properly.
274.281: Update.exe extended error code = 0x5

The errors the trouble shooter asks me to look for are NOT there.

Any help/suggestions would be appreciated...
Anonymous
July 05, 2006
Do i have to uninstall IE 7 beta 3 before Installing Window XP Security Updates?
I read on the release notes that i have to uninstall IE 7.0 beta then install Window XP updates is the note referring to user who upgrade to Window XP home from Window XP pro.
Anonymous
July 05, 2006
@EricLaw [MSFT]:
Hey, The problem is that this only happnes with the IE7 Installer, nothing else, everything else seems to be running perfectly fine o.O

Though I'll try your suggestion and run those scans.
Anonymous
July 05, 2006
Here's an interesting one... Operationally, it seems to work fine, but when I close the browser, Windows won't repaint whatever was under the window. So I end up with an "image" artifact of the browser that sticks around for several minutes. It's never happened with any other browser aside from several IE7 betas...
Thoughts, anyone?
Anonymous
July 05, 2006
So far i am lucky to not have any of the problems said by some of the other testers around here.
Anonymous
July 05, 2006
@Dan: You can install WindowsUpdates with IE7 installed; just do not upgrade the OS (E.g. don't install Pro over home, or Vista over XP).
Anonymous
July 06, 2006
Beta 2 had a fix for supporting Wells Fargo's web page is there a fix for Beta 3. I am having trouble finding it.
Anonymous
July 06, 2006
the small notification balloon on status bar that warn us that add-on is disabled are no longer showing instead it's showing the manage add-on icon on status bar. I would like to see the notification balloon and could the notification balloon stay longer, so user can see it, it is to fast.

able to view feeds on top of the tabs just like the links and menu bar.
Anonymous
July 06, 2006
IE 7 beta 3 is great, but still has a ill effect on the solicit assistance for remote access. The solicit assistance will not run.
Anonymous
July 06, 2006
I don't know has everyone posted this blogs before, but today I want to post that :

- Some software using online registration or online activation can't register or activate after install IE7 (such as : Corel Grahic Suite X3).
- Some software using Live Update or Background Update can't update and show "No connection. Please check your Internet setting and/or firewall..." after install IE7.

These problem appeared on IE7 beta2, I hope that it will fix on beta3, but now, it wasn't fixed on beta3.
Yes, I hope agains, it will fix on the next beta or Candidate Release of IE7.
Anonymous
July 06, 2006
@EDW: The bug on requesting Remote Assistance from the Help Center is still active in our system; we're working on it.

@Roxanne: The WellsFargo fix shouldn't be needed shortly, but for now, you can tweak your user-agent header using http://enhanceie.com/useragent.aspx
Anonymous
July 06, 2006
@Tan Nguyen: We just fixed some of the issues around HttpOpenRequestW this week, which should resolve some of the problems with the updaters for these applications. Please give them a try in RC1.
Anonymous
July 07, 2006
Hey,

I am using a barcode-scanner to enter item numbers in my online-shop. The scanner is connected via a PS/2-bridge. It worked fine in Beta2, but now it just enters the first digits in the desired field and the cursor then jumps directly to the address bar and continues to enter the remaining digits of the item number there, which is really annoying.

Thanks for you help,
Nick
Anonymous
July 07, 2006
@Martin Tilsted

Unfortunately no. The list of MSIE CSS bugs and omitions is quite large, and hard to compile, since many of the CSS features are only partially supported.

e.g. float: left; works in most situations, but there are some that don't.

a[name]{
/*
Oh how nice it would be if this type of selector actually worked
/
}

a[target=_blank]{
/ditto/
}

The good news, is that they have apparently fixed some of the more anoying ones.

min-width, max-width, min-height, max-height apparently work. I've yet to fully test this, but I certainly hope it is fixed.

opacity: 0.5;
/ haven't checked this one yet /

border-radius: 5px;

/ It would be super cool if IE would start supporting the good stuff. I'm tired of all my interfaces looking super sweet in every browser, except IE /

-ie-border-radius: 5px;
/ would be much better than no support */

mikey
Anonymous
July 07, 2006
some HP image software no longer work when installing IE 7.0 beta 3.

HP Director (Hpqdirec.exe) which is part of HP photo & imaging 2.0/3.0, Image zone and comes preloaded with 2004 HP computer no longer work and also use for HP Photosmart 7760 printer. I try to open HP Director but it won't show the application but i see the process running on background. I hope you check this out because i think HP no longer provide updates for this software.
Anonymous
July 07, 2006
IE 7.0 Beta 3 having a hard time showing some image on website, i see those outdated ugly red x icon.
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Anonymous
July 08, 2006
PingBack from http://www.pirootofpi.com/wp/?p=8
Anonymous
July 08, 2006
ie7beta3 seems like a pixie in a world of magic less merlins and wizards. after several isolated instances from clients unable to install ie7beta3. the magic appeared back as fast as they thought it was gone. its seems, zone alarm must be uninstalled before ie7beta3 will install on their computers. huh? it seems to work so hey, the magic is working. keep it up. some thing to do with permissions being locked by zone alarm.
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July 08, 2006
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Anonymous
July 08, 2006
Userenv warning is now occasionally appearing on event viewer when i installed IE 7.0 beta 3, i check event viewer and it does show that the first userenv warning started on June 29. I have 5 log of this warning now and I know that before i did not have any Userenv warning on event viewer because i have User Profile Hive Cleanup Service installed and event viewer completely shows it.

userenv warning log.

Windows cannot unload your classes registry file - it is still in use by other applications or services. The file will be unloaded when it is no longer in use.
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July 08, 2006
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Anonymous
July 09, 2006
Forgot to mention that a friend with IE7 beta3 has the same issue, but my girlfriend has ie6 and it works fine.
Anonymous
July 10, 2006
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Anonymous
July 10, 2006
same problem as marcelo. i've tried running in no plug-in mode, doesn't work. beta 2 worked fine with the exception of a few sites.

I've installed but it didn't work here. When I click on the IE logo the screen blinks and nothing happens... :(
Anonymous
July 10, 2006
@Tom: Try this:

START | Run | CMD.exe
cd program filesInternet explorer
regsvr32 ieproxy.dll
iexplore.exe
Anonymous
July 10, 2006
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Anonymous
July 10, 2006
Fix for Disk Cleanup issue is available here.

Disk Cleanup shows incorrect description and button text for Downloaded Program Files hander, after installing Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3

http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/53/1
Anonymous
July 11, 2006
Eric, it works. Thanks!

@Tom: Try this:

START | Run | CMD.exe
cd program filesInternet explorer
regsvr32 ieproxy.dll
iexplore.exe
Anonymous
July 11, 2006
Here is a screenshot of the forthcoming FreeTextBox4. We'll have a preview release next week.

...
Anonymous
July 11, 2006
With IE7 Beta3 I have a problem with Javascript under an normal user account without admin-rights . The statusbar says failure on site. For example on the http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx. It´s not possible to save the settings. Any suggestions?
Anonymous
July 11, 2006
When I installed IE 7 Beta 3, it killed drag-and-drop FTP in Windows.

It says go to page and "Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer". Then I do that and it says "This FTP site cannot be viewed in Windows Explorer." My old way of going through Network Places, no longer works now in beta 3 (it worked in beta 2) either because it seems tied to the new IE - it gives exactly the same message even though there is no "Page" button to click on in explorer.

I absolutely loved using explorer to drag and drop ftp. Please fix - for now I have to either go back to earlier IE version or get another ftp program. I miss the old windows drag-and-drop...
Anonymous
July 11, 2006
I very much enjoy the new toolbar layout. Brilliant! Also the new streamlining is excellent.
Anonymous
July 11, 2006
The IE team is proud to announce the availability of Arabic, Finnish, German and Japanese versions of...
Anonymous
July 11, 2006
Sorry but when will the IE7 Beta 3 be ready for Vista Beta 2, don't the two compliment each other ? or you have to do a complete re-write for Vista or you need a compile machine which is already compiling the next Vista build ?
Anonymous
July 11, 2006
Just Downloaded IE 7 Beta 3 Ver. From Beta 2 and I just wanted to say that you guys are doing a good job I like the changes that you are doing. The new Beta Versions are a hundred times better than IE 6. I Have not had any Issue's or problems yet with the Beta's! Thanks for all your hard work!
Anonymous
July 12, 2006
Did I something wrong or I really can not move Command Bar from right bottom corner?
Top set of controls (back, forward, URL etc) are also not customizable/movable?
Thank you.
Anonymous
July 12, 2006
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Anonymous
July 12, 2006
ftp access does not work. I log into my ftp server and get a read only view. Click the option to open in explorer and get a "ftp site cannot be viewed in explorer" message.

Also now I cannot use windows explorer as an alternative as it just opens in IE7 straight away.
Anonymous
July 12, 2006
IE 7.0 beta 3 performance has drop, webpage now is loading very slow and i now constantly see the black clock icon on the lower left corner it wasn't like that before when i first installed it. IE 7.0. Performance optimization would really help.
Anonymous
July 12, 2006
Mike is right about IE 7 Beta 3's performance dropping and the more i used it the more it dropped.I also noticed that when you go my computer and go to Local Disk (c:) and when you go to Documents and Settings and look for the cookies folder it is not there any longer. Why is the Cookies folder gone? Oh another thing i noticed is that when i clean my pc i get "@C:WindowsSystem32occache.dll,-..." and i also got "WSsystem32occ" on the lower right.Also When I uninstall IE 7 Beta 3, it goes back to normal. So you need to fix these problems before the Main Release of IE 7.
Anonymous
July 12, 2006
@EricLaw [MSFT]

Thanks for enlightening me on what is going on.
Maybe I should get a hold of this MS Fiddler?

Does that mean that IE7 gives more information than IE6 on the referrer? Since the same images work fine on IE6. Or does IE6 not give the referral information?

Just interested.
Anonymous
July 12, 2006
Matt is right I also notice some of those issues. glad that i'm not the only one who notice those issues. thanks for posting it again. So you need to fix these problems before the Main Release of IE 7.
Anonymous
July 12, 2006
Having fixed all the permissions stuff and disabled ZoneAlarm and tried safe mode, it's official I give up! I see many posts of this same problem but no solutions...abridged log follows...

116.859: MyMakePerFileExceptionA: MakePerFileException failed; error=0x6ba.
116.859: Copied file: C:WINDOWSsystem32en-USoccache.dll.mui
116.906: MyMakePerFileExceptionA: MakePerFileException failed; error=0x6ba.
116.906: Copied file: C:WINDOWSsystem32en-USurlmon.dll.mui
116.906: MyMakePerFileExceptionA: MakePerFileException failed; error=0x6ba.
116.906: Copied file: C:WINDOWSsystem32en-USwebcheck.dll.mui
116.906: MyMakePerFileExceptionA: MakePerFileException failed; error=0x6ba.
116.906: Copied file: C:WINDOWSsystem32en-USWinFXDocObj.exe.mui
116.968: MyMakePerFileExceptionA: MakePerFileException failed; error=0x6ba.
116.968: Copied file: C:WINDOWSsystem32en-USwininet.dll.mui
117.281: DoInstallation: Installing assemblies with source root path: f:500d60ca246ae4f6c5
117.281: Num Ticks for Copying files : 17719
117.609: DoRegistryUpdates:UpdSpInstallFromInfSection Failed for ProductInstall.GlobalRegistryChanges.Install error: 0x5
117.609: INF_REGISTRY Failed
117.609: DoInstallation:DoRegistryUpdates failed
117.671: Access is denied.
117.671: Internet Explorer 7 installation did not complete.

Select 'OK' to undo the changes that have been made.
117.671: Starting process: C:WINDOWSie7beta3spuninstspuninst.exe /~ -q -z
154.484: Software Update Rollback has completed with return code 0xbc2. This rollback requires a reboot.
154.484: Internet Explorer 7 installation did not complete.

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 has been partially updated and may not work properly.
154.484: Update.exe extended error code = 0x5
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July 12, 2006
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July 12, 2006
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July 15, 2006
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July 15, 2006
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August 02, 2006
PingBack from http://makeourlifebetter.com/1826/ie-7-beta-3-available/
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August 24, 2006
The RC1 build includes improvements in performance, stability, security, and application compatibility....
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August 24, 2006
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October 18, 2006
Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. I encourage everyone to download the final version
Anonymous
December 29, 2006
PingBack from http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3215
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February 22, 2007
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February 24, 2007
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May 16, 2007
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August 31, 2008
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December 30, 2008
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