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Thank you, Al

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Hello everybody,

My name is Anurag Jain and I am a Program Manager on the IE team. I am also involved in the sustained engineering efforts to support IE6, and chances are that I might have spoken to some of you on the phone. I would like to thank Al for the great work he has done here, both with the IE blog and his other duties, and wish him the very best in his future endeavors.

I hope everyone is enjoying the second beta of IE7. Keep sending us your feedback!

- Anurag

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006
    Hey Anurag,

    I hope you have a nice time moderating this blog! :)

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006
    Darren,

    Thanks! I am looking forward to it. :)

    - Anurag Jain [MSFT]

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006
    Anurag, can you maybe demystify the term "Program Manager"? Seems like a lot of people on the IE7 team have this title.

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006
    Welcome, Anurag.

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006
    Hi, Anurag.

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006
    Ooops ! I'm looking behind. Sorry.

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006
    Not sure if this is the place to post - but the latest update to IE7 BETA 2 has messed up the Header/Footing links on Wikipedia and Wikicities. Neither rows of links hold their right/center/left justification - but they displayed correctly in the previous BETA 2 version. Has html/page loading been tweeked - if so it might need revising :-

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006
    ie7's address bar acts too slow(sometime i have to wait more than 4 seconds) for showing history list when i start type-in any letter or letters.

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006
    Hope we aren't too chaotic ;)

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006

    Tony Chor made a post about the organization of the IE team a while back:
    http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2004/08/17/216075.aspx

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006
    Hey there Anurag - t'is nice to see a familiar face take over from Al - still using that desktop graphic? ;o)

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006
    Firefox has suffered from periodic freezing ever since I downloaded IE7 Beta 2. What could be the issue here? I like to use both.

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006
    Hopefully, new blood will save IE. Currently, even IE 7 beta 2 is not good enough, compared with other competitors. Unless IE 7 takes 99% of browser market again, the whole windows live online service will suffer huge loss as Google and Yahoo can always support all browsers consistenly well, not so for live.com.

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006
    Scott - I remember reading an IE employee commenting about the perception that IE has a lot of program managers.  I think they said that there are more developers, as well as more testers, than PMs, but that blogging falls under the umbrella of the type of stuff that PMs do so that is why they post more than the other people.

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006
    Hello Anurag,
    1) There should be an option to prevent IE from opening new windows, when there is one already opened and use new tabs instead. I have tabs, I don’t need new windows. It’s the most frustrating “bug” for me.
    2) Opening new tabs is a bit slowly. Please, make it faster.
    3) An option to force IE to open maximized, regardless of the way it was started (as Windows Update, Inbox from Live Messenger etc.), is absolutely necessary.
    4) The last thing that comes to my mind right now – middle mouse button doesn’t work with links on Live.com, therefore it can be used to open search results on new tabs. Fix it, please, it’s very annoying.
    Keep up the good work.

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    May 12, 2006
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    May 12, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006
    hi anurag, hope u enjoy being moderator and this is also a minor problem like when opeining a new tab, i feel it should open with your homepage and not aboutblank.

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006
    @Ankit: The option to use your homepage as the new tab has been added; check Tools |Internet Options | Tabs | Settings.  It may be in later builds.

    @AdamWysokinski: For issue #1, see tabs settings as described to Ankit.  For #4, this is a known issue we're looking at.

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006
    Oooops, sorry just realised that on my final point (no. 4), where I meant to say 'slidy', I put 'sligy', lol (I once again renew my call to have some kind of a preview option for any blog posts here - with a spell checker, lol).  Anyways, just another suggestion: I think it would be cool to have the text within the tab you're currently in set to bold, as this would help make it easier to identify the tab you are in at a glance.

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    Where is the E-Mail button on the new tool bar? I can't find a way to check Outlook without going directly to desktop and activating Outlook from there.

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    I am trying to uninstall IE7 and reinstall IE 6 since my online banking will not work with IE 7, but I can't get it to uninstall.....can I get some help please?

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    Welcome Anurag!

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    Cleartype should NOT be enabled by default! The only thing thing i've liked that other browsers don't have is the Quick Tabs feature. Control tabs still only cycles, no mouse gestures, can't hide/move the favourites buttons or the command bar, uses more memory than FF and Opera, etc etc. I honestly wanted to like IE7, I wanted something light and fast with useful features, instead it's IE6 with a slightly refined interface. The biggest disappointment by miles though is that IE7 is barely any better at rendering pages than the joke that was IE6. Seriously, do you think it's acceptable that MS release a browser with such poor rendering compatability that it's beaten in tests by Opera 6 which was released in 2001!! I think MS has been extremely lazy in making IE7, with it's vast resources of talented programmers I expected IE7 to be great, sadly it's not even adequate. The IE Team have a very long way to go.

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    I just downloaded IE7 and I love the new look, and it was pretty easy to figure out all the buttons. I thinks it's pretty user friendly and haven't encountered any problems yet!

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    @EricLaw [MSFT] about issue #1: I know this option and I have it set to: "Always open links in a new tab in the current window". However, it does not work all the times – there were several different situations when it failed. Unfortunately, right now I can recall only one of them – Windows Update, which always opens a new window.

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    Why does IE7 not let me move the address bar? I think it is unlikely that phishers will try to fool someone who has moved their toolbar, it's not really a priority target...

    And BTW, I thought the way Al left was very funny... you can catch the flamewar with MSN (and Dare Obasanjo) at
    http://25hoursaday.com/weblog/CommentView.aspx?guid=009aa56c-5a15-430d-b975-70272bd6c8ac

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    Hey all - just because we have a new moderator doesn't mean we'll let folks swear & be abusive in comments. Adults can convey their meaning without swearing - try it! And then just maybe your comments won't be deleted.

    -Christopher [MSFT]

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    IE Beta 2 does not respond to the IBM Fingerprint Reader and software. It does not accept the software's input into text fields -- it doesn't do anything.

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    I'm not sure whether this one was mentioned before, but what I do miss so much, is a shortcut (ctrl+s) for saving web pages. Please, save my time and add this little one. I don't want to be bothered with clicking through menus.

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    Why are they so hard to find after an upgrade? Most end users will be very frustrated by this.

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    Re-ordering of feeds inside the "star" button is not working.... :(

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    Al, could you tell to the team to allow for the standard keyboard language switch by Ctrl+Shift and Alt+Shift? For some reason IE7 blocks it, which is a bag.

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    finally, internet explorer for server 2003!! phew. now, i am downloading it and i dont want nothing that will use up my virtual memory. i dont like that at all. well, i will tell you back what happens and how it reacts with other programs.
    bye

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    Hi guys,

    I wasn't really sure where I should report this to, but I decided that here was probably the safest bet.
    I think I've found what might be a weird little glitch/rendering thingy, and I was just wondering if you you guys were aware of it/could confirm.
    I've taken a specific link, but I've found it seems to happen on most of the articles on the site: http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1163849.php/New_phishing_attacks_target_telephone_use.  Basically, the glitch seems to happen when you move your cursor over main body of text in the article, which then turns white just like the background, making it unreadable.
    Anywasys, not sure what this is, or if it's just me, but I figure I may as well mention it.  Hope it helps.

    Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    I notice that in the new IE7, we cannot create or edit MSN space photos. I think there is a bug inside, which prevents us from doing so. But in IE6, we can do it.

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    IN YOUR BEST EFFORTS CAN YOU PLEASE FIX ALL EXPLORER PROGRAMS FROM COMITTING TO "SORRY THE INTERNET EXPLORER HAS EXPERIENCED A PROBLEM AND NEEDS TO CLOSE. " SITUATION . IT IS IN ALL EXPLORER PROGRAMS AND HAS COST ME AROUND 6 TO 8 THOUSAND  $ OVER ABOUT 8 TO 10 yrs. BECAUSE WHEN YOU FINISH A DOCUMENT AND SPELL CHECK , THE PROGRAM ENCOUNTERS A PROBLEM AND U LOSE ALL THAT YOU HAVE ENTERED AS I DID JUST ABOUT 7 MINS. AGO AND SMASHED MY FLATBED SCANNER IN ANGER I FEEL AS THOUGH IN SOME SELF SATISFACTION WAY HACKERS THAT TEAR DOWN AND MINUPLATE YOUR PRECIOUS WEB HAVE A MINUTE BIT OF WORTHNESS AS FAR AS CORRECTING THIS PROBLEM I KNOW THAT YOU WON'T UNLESS YOU FIND OR TAKE THE TIME TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THE PROBLEM LIES ---I HAVE TOLD YOU THE LOCATION IN MY NICE HATEFUL LETTER TO YOU.....AS FOR THIS I WILL BE PROGRAMMING THE WEB SOON I HOPE AS I AM ENTERING SCHOOL !!!

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    I find the IE 7.0 has a problem with the site"www.google.com". I often meet a lot of problem like the page can't be opened.but I check my computer and the notwork is running correctly.And I use other browser having not this problem.I think if you prevent the user using the www.google.com or not.

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    IE7 Beta2 is unbeliavable, especially auto hiding toolbar in full screen mode is superb improvement. Thanks to all developers...

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    I'm using IE7 B2 ENG (1033, I guess) on a localized version of Win XP Pro SP2 (1040, Italian. By the way: no problems of cohabitation at all). (So, sorry for my english but I'm italian and I'm trying to do my best).

    No major problems so far, just a couple of observations.
    1. The toolbar on the right is not adjustable and this could be ok, but the last menu icon (Help) is ''out of screen'' , replaced by the ''more'' symbol (the >> ). I switched various screen resolutions, and still no help icon so it seems screen resolution is not the problem. I can understand the help nenu is likely the less used, but I also notice that the space used by the ''more icon'' (>>) is more or less the same space that would be used by the help icon.
    2. I've got a time-billed ADSL connection, because flat ADSL in Italy is still way too expensive for a college student; I really would like a subscribed RSS feed refresh at the first opening of the browser instead of having to manually click 10-12 lines one by one to force a feed refresh; I've set the feed refresh time at its minimum of 15 minutes but I don't see the reason I should wait 15 minutes... And a nice little audio thing when one or more of the subscribed feeds has updated contents (so you can acknowledge it without having to open the feeds pane) would be great.

    Anyway, nice work so far. Considered it's still a beta, not a final release, not even a RC for that matter, it's way better than IE6 final... :-)

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2006
    @Serious Sam: We're looking at making the current tab a bit more visually prominent.

    @Bill: You'll want to make sure that the DHTML editing control is enabled in Tools | Manage Addons.

    @David: Use www.fiddlertool.com/useragent.aspx to spoof your bank site into letting you use IE7.

    @JD: The mail button was removed, but we're looking at bringing it back for a later build.  For now, you can simply add the mail button to the QuickLaunch toolbar on the system taskbar.

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2006
    Hi Eric,

    Thanks for the response on the tab thingy, making the one that you are currently in stand out more will definitely make things easier for the user.  In addition, really sorry if this comes across as badgering, but any news on the other points on my list (the address bar stuff)?
    Also, have you had time to take a look at the link I supplied, since I remember the website working perfectly in IE 6?
    In addition, I've just also come up with a few more suggestions/ideas that I hope you guys will find useful:

    1.  Couple of last thoughts on the tabs.  What I think would be cool is maybe changing the 'tabs list' feature, to 'manage tabs', which would bring together all the various generic options (as well as the tabs list in the form of an outward arrow) for controlling all the tabs you currently have open as a group.  For example, it could contain the 'refresh all', 'close other tabs', maybe even some basic arrangement options etc.  I feel that something like this would help make managing large groups of tabs even easier.
    In addition, I would also like to have some kind of facility to make all the icon menus in that row 'collapsable'/or minimised.  That way, if I chose to, I could dedicate the whole row to the tabs and access the various menus in the same way as we currently do the help function.

    2.  When it comes to the new zooming functions, I'm not sure if you're planning on including any of these options (or if you already have and I've just missed them, lol), but how about including the ability for users to change the default level of zoom (and of course text size as well) when the first come into IE 7.  In addition, with the zoom thing at the bottom right of the screen, as well as being able to control the zoom levels by simply tapping the % indicator, how's about making the magnifying glass icon separate. This will mean that when a user presses it, the cursor changes to the magnifier, and will allow the user to change the zoom 'on screen'.  I believe that many other programmes have a similar feature.  In addition, are there any plans to allow users to change the size of IE 7's new toolbar?
    While I personally like the new smaller size and have no real problems seeing any of icons or text in the menus, I'm sure there are many people who aren't quite as fortunate and may find distinguishing between icons a strain.  I therefore feel it's the right thing to do to include some resizing options, even if they're something similar to the text: Standard, small, large.

    3.  I'm also a little mystified as to why, given the significance of the phising filter as a new security feature, why the options for it seem to have been dumped within the advanced tab (down near the bottom no less.  Now I'm not sure if this is a typical response, but as an 'average user', I've never really given the stuff in the advanced tab anything more than a passing glance, so it took me quite a while to figure out where the options for the filter where.  I personally would have thought you'd have been trying to make the phising filter as discoverable as possible, by maybe putting it within one of the other existing tabs, so therefore everyone would know it's there and present.
    Another thing I'm not sure about, is the initial message about enabling the filter.  I know why you're making it an opt in feature, due to concerns over privacy and all that, but I have to say, that when I was first presented with that message, I got no felt sense of 'danger'.  By that I mean, the initial message went something like (and I'm only going by memory her) 'Phising filter checks for websites impersonating others....' or word to that effect.  Now if I had known nothing about phising, I would probably have said 'so?..'.  I'm sure there's a better description in that link of 'how does the phising filter protect me, but not everyone’s going to read that, so a simple thing to do would be a little follow up on that initial message: 'Phising filter checks for fake websites that intend to steal your personal for the purpose of identity theft, do you wish to autamically, etc, etc...  A message like that would instantly leave everyone in no doubt about the dangers of phising and would probably encourage more people to switch on the filter.  This strong language should also be consistently followed though on any subsequent phising related message, to really drive home to the user the dangers associated with the scam.

    Once again really sorry for the long post, but I just seem to getting lots of ideas at the moment and like that there is somewhere to voice them.  Anyways, keep up the good work guys, you're well on the way to releasing a great browser.

    Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2006
    When I try to open a new page in a tab, it gone!

    I can't believe Microsoft will release such kind of a beta 2 version!

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2006
    hi anurag

    Few suggestion for present/future

    1  Open tabs more quickly,it's very slow on beta 2!

    2. Link opens me a new window,i don't want more windows opened,i want it all(and i mean all) on other tabs.

    3. My pc is slow,IE struggles when opening,and it opens by frames sometimes,We need it to consume less resoucrces!

    3 In further release add a download manager

    4. Full CSS support in the future!

    5. I want to customize the position of my toolbars,including the tabs bar (if it has any).

    6. Display a Java icon somwhere in the status bar to show that java is running,this could nbe applicable to other apps of course

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2006
    I am unable to access the ftp server for my internet service provider in order to update my web page with IE7. I am running IE 6 on another computer I have networked with this one I have to use. I never had any problems with IE 6 on this machine either. Did not have this problem until I upgraded to IE7 Beta 2
    Please let me know if there is something I can do to correct this. You may reach me at MrMR2@cox.net

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2006
    Don't know if this is such a big deal for anyone else but I would like to see my RSS feeds viewable from a drop down menu like "tools" or so. With the first few news articles from each........kind of in the form from Live.com

    Thanks.


    Been using IE7 Beta 2 for a while and seems to work grand for me........very nice!

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2006
    I REALLY miss the built in FTP client from previous versions. Wasn't the best out there, but it had the perfect integration and I knew that it would be there on any computer I needed to use.

    P L E A S E  add FTP support back in!

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2006
    there is a problem with ie7 and microsoft works
    whenever i try to copy and paste something to MICROSOFT WORKS it says i've selected too much data and asked me to re-copy and paste a little amount
    but i tried to copy and paste ONE word and it still said the same thing..
    is there a way to fix this?

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2006
    I am thinking about going with dial up because it is a great deal.

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    May 14, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2006
    Hi Anurag!
    Welcome and all the best.
    I'm also new to this blog.
    've switched to IE7 myself and finding it quite useful in office :)

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2006
    IE7.0实在是太酷了!!!!
    绝对超越MAXTHON!!!!

    this edition of ie is so cool that i cannot help delete the maxthon....
    in my opinion,  ie7.0 is the best browser of the world now...

    congratulasions!!!  

    from china

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2006
    Hi

    I saw the prompt to download your IE7beta 2 and decided to go for it.. now having run it a couple of days, I am still not able to get rid of the first page that asks to turn the "pishing " on..as well as choosing langauge etc...

    This page does not want to leave, is it coming up everytime I load the browser. I can surf and go wherever I want, but it does not seem to want to stop loading..

    I have tried to clean it up with everything I have..( internet tools, delete cookies..etc) the next thing is to uninstall it.

    Before I do that.. I was hoping you might have run into this issue and could give me some ideas.

    Any suggestions please send to susancarol@sympatico.ca

    Thanks
    Susan Wells

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    May 14, 2006
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    May 14, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 15, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 15, 2006
    Please remember that comments containing abusive language will be deleted.

  • Anonymous
    May 15, 2006
    @Sandi: Hi Sandi! I am using a different desktop graphic right now, but that one still remains one of my favorites. I do go back to it every once in a while.

  • Anonymous
    May 15, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 15, 2006
    Hello, IE7 Team!
      I have been having an issue with the latest version of IE7; I use the P2P network for Morpheus, and yes I paid for it. However, ever since upgrading to this latest version of IE I have many troubles downloading and listening to my music. Whenever I click on a downloaded song I automatically get a pop-up IE window that directs me to a file under Program Files/Morpheus/skindata/etc. I have asked the Morpheus helpdesk about this and they say it is a glitch within IE7. It doesn't "play nice" with websites such as this. I am really getting familiar with the latest version of IE and have found it rather enjoyable. Is there a fix that I can do to allow downloads from this site? I don't want to have to rollback to the previous version of IE or find another browser to use with this download site.
    Thanks for all your hard-work. So far, aside from this issue, I like what you have done with IE.

  • Anonymous
    May 15, 2006
    It would be nice to have some kind of status indicator while a rss feed is loading.

  • Anonymous
    May 15, 2006
    can someone please tell me how to fix the problem with microsoft works :) (copy and paste funtion not working)
    and also when we want to opean a new tab  by clicking on he  "new tab"  or "ctrl +T" it opens as a blank page. it would've been nice if it opeans our home page..

  • Anonymous
    May 15, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 15, 2006
    I am working with our companys intranet site, http://companyweb/default.aspx, and the .pdf links that worked with I.E. 6 no longer work. When I click the .pdf link to open adobe acrobat 6.0 standard it opens a blank page in I.E.7??

    Thanks

  • Anonymous
    May 15, 2006
    You would have a lot more feedback if Microsoft Connect was easier to use. the home page takes you nowhere and it is difficult to find the IE 7 location.

    I installed IE 7 on Media Center 2005. It crashes every 2 minutes. I am using firefox for the time being but I would like to go back to IE 6 if possible without reinstalling Media Center, a 2 day proposition given the drivers and software installed.

    Steve

  • Anonymous
    May 15, 2006
    May I ask where to send feedback? All I have ever found in IE7 to report bugs in the beta is the same worthless general Microsoft Product Feedback form. I've been using that form to report this bug since IE6 and it's still in IE7.


    IE7 doesn't remember the state of my window as maximized. If I open a link in a new window it opens as a restored window, not maximized, no matter how many times I maximize my main window. Same if I open an e-mail link.

  • Anonymous
    May 15, 2006
    I would like to suggest the ability to drag tabs from one browser to another. When a appilcation opens up another window, I found that I still have to browse the Internet using two separate window; and that's no difference from IE6. So, with the capability of dragging tabs, I will be able to browse everything within one window. This will definitely make IE7 stand out amongst the rest.

  • Anonymous
    May 15, 2006
    James: "Certainly, if the bug which makes IE 7 compatible with GDT is not fixed, many users will not want to use the MS browser."

    Just in case it isn't clear, the bug is in Google's code, not IE7.  I have read somewhere that Google is working on a fix.

  • Anonymous
    May 15, 2006
    I have been using IE7 for quite some time now, and thought the new release, uninstall, install is a bit annoying - you expect that from Beta versions.

    Overall my experience has been great - RSS could do with a notification that it is going to get updated - there seems to be a lag..

    The developer toolbar works a treat and it would be nice to see some more firefox type extensions written for IE7

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
    I have had problem with ieframe.dll

    I have had to unistall IE7 and after reinstall it

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    May 16, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
    Some people would say that all of the new features in Internet Explorer have been copied from firefox and opera. Out of interest, what do you say to that?

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
    Thanks, Good to hear and looking forward to it.
    Keep up the good work!
    jay-

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
    I see several posts of people saying ClearType shouldn't be enabled by default.
    I have to admit, even though I love ClearType, I agree it shouldn't be on by default.

    Fist it's good to let people chose if they like it or not, some people are more annoyed by the slight color changes it introduces.

    Second, enabling it in IE will not benefit users for their other applications, they'll think it is an IE only feature and search for a similar setting in other applications, but won't realise ALL other applications uses the system-wide setting in their display properties.

    I believe the perfect fix would be to go though the ActiveX and HTML-based ClearType tuner when IE is first open after install, the code is ready and available from the typography team, it would let users know AND experience ClearType before making their decision, AND would enable ClearType system-wide!

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
    IE 7.0
    This browser is still a long way from being ready.  In my opinion after an extended period from 6 to 7 the features should be more versitle not more restricted.  For one FTP access via the web is restricted, which stinks.  There are also issues with speed of the tab browsing.  There are also some user firendly issues that I feel are going to initially restrict some things for the average user.  I already uninstalled it and went back to 6.0, hopefully some of these issues can be worked out

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
    Welcome Anurag.

    I noticed a bug in IE7Beta2. The favorites page will not open in fullscreen mode. It doesn't hamper my browsing, but it can be very annoying. Thank you, IE7 seems to be a much better browser than my other ones, even with the glitches.

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
    The Microsoft decision to offer $100 per bug found by their developers in Vista will certainly make the IE team quite rich !

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
    : )

    You can call me al....

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
    LOL me too.

    In fact all Fduchs (and there are a few of them) are either Alexeis or Alexanders.

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
    > You would have a lot more feedback if Microsoft Connect was easier to use

    ... and the feedback would be more representative of "real customers."

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
    ...And if it was more visible.
    Try creating feedback item and then look for it in the list of issues. You won't see it. You can only find it using search. That's one of the causes of vote system not working good enough.

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    May 16, 2006
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    May 16, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
    @thilen: You can make new tabs open to your homepage using Tools | Internet Options | General | Tab Settings.

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
    IE 7 is not compatible with mercury products yet. I was trying to run Mercury Load Runner on my laptop which requires IE but it kept crashing and froze my system. U guys need to fix this problem....

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
    I would actually like to see a feature come to Internet Explorer 7 that hasnt been released in any other browser that I know of...Allow us to view 2+ tabs cascading horizontally/vertically...in the same window. If you dont know what I mean just take to browser windows make each cover 1 half of the screen.

    That would be awsome :D

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
    Hi, I understood that the Uninstall for IE7 was under the Add/Remove programs when you Show Updates, however I don't see anything related to it. Is there a link to the Unistall procedure? Or can one be provided?

    Scott

    It's looking good though, bit slow on start up.

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
    I am having problems in IE 7 Beta ie when we open a new tab very rarely but atleast once a day the entire Internet explorer without any user action. It is frustating if some e-mails have been typed but not dispatched

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 17, 2006
    I believe the "speed issue" that several have spoken about is related to the "phishing" checker. I have disabled/turned it off and IE7 runs much faster. It was particularly annoying/slow when posting to blogs as it was constantly trying to check every letter/character entered.

    Let me put in my plug to either enlarge the direction arrows and/or move the favorites away from the arrows. I keep hitting the wrong buttons.

    Keep up the good work

  • Anonymous
    May 17, 2006
    Since I installed 7 Beta I have lost most access to video.  When I try to look at a video on CNN or the Washington Post or the NY Times I get nothing.  On occasion Windows Media Player will open and give me a message that I need to be commected to the Internet.  I have a cable connection that is open all the time so this message makes no sense.  The only change I have made is to install IE 7.  Why have I lost my video capabilities?

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    May 17, 2006
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    May 17, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 17, 2006
    I've read about many of the problems others are having -- I'm experiencing only one ... The Google Calendar will not display in the IE7b2 version. The Google message says that at this time, IE7 is not supported. That's the only problem; otherwise, it's a great improvement. I particularly like the feature which shrinks web pages to fit the printed page. Keep up the good work.

  • Anonymous
    May 17, 2006
    It took much more time for you to delete my post about bugs in IE7 this time. Have your skills dulled?

  • Anonymous
    May 17, 2006
    Here's a list of Search Providers for IE 7.

    http://ieproviders.com/

  • Anonymous
    May 17, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 17, 2006
    I have been unable to uninstall ie 7 on Media Center. I have looked for the uninstall tool on my system and it is not there.

    IE 7 is not in Add/Remove Programs.

    Where can I turn for uninstall guidance.

    Thanks,

    Steve

  • Anonymous
    May 17, 2006
    Some of the favicons in my links bar are getting mixed up. E.g. wrong icon appearing. Is this a known bug?

  • Anonymous
    May 18, 2006
    WOW. Very nice, at least this beta installed :) I have to agree with many others, than the performance is terrible. I appreciate that its a beta, and really hope that performance has been sacrificed for debugging purposes.

    My thoughts summed up: performance terrible, massive memory usage, tabs are extremely slow, lack of download manager (and resume downloads), speed (SIGH), live.com is SLOW!!!, full CSS support.

    All the same nice to see something new. Keep it up, I'm sure the end result will be great!

  • Anonymous
    May 18, 2006
    When using OWA (Exchange 2003 W/SP2 running on Win2003 SP1) with IE7 B2, if you attempt to create a New e-mail or Reply you receive the following desciptive error:

     An unknown error happened.

  • Anonymous
    May 18, 2006
    @jerryguinn: The Google calendar site works fine in IE7 as far as I can tell-- just hit Cancel when they tell you they don't support IE.  

    @Hobo: Unfortunately, that message is generated by the OWA Server, not IE, so I'm not sure how to fix it.  

  • Anonymous
    May 18, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 18, 2006
    User should be able to use Ctrl+A in the address bar to select all. I don't know if you forgot that or what but anyway..

    Other than that - GG! :)

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2006
    beta ie always cannot open and freeze!

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2006
    Anurag:

    Can you take a look at firefox ;-) and put all those feature and more?  This way nobody will go over to that camp?

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2006
    When you install the latest version of Google Toolbar (Supports IE7) - the 'Open in new tab' right-click menu option disappears. Eek! I loved that button!

  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2006
    Any word on why IE7 doesn't accept input from my fingerprint reader? IE6 did very nicely. Is it some attribute that was changed perhaps when the multiple tabs were introduced? I keep dozens of passwords with my IBM embedded fingerprint security system and I used to use it all the time when IE6 was installed. For me, at least, and everybody else who uses one, this is a big issue.

  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2006
    Good to see you take ccontrol here Anu :)

  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2006
    The new toolbar layout takes a little getting used to.
    Inflexibility of arranging the toolbar positions is really annoying and there's not enough room on the 'Command bar'.
    Positioning of the Find dialog is annoying.
    Would be nice to have a tool to select all instances of a word on a page (like FireFox has)
    It was much better when I could decide how big I wanted the address bar to be.
    "View Files" in 'Internet Options' has changed to "View Trusted Files", but double-clicking one still gives a warning about being potentially unsafe. Why call them 'Trusted' files??

    IE7 (Beta 2) stuffs up the layout of the following site that displaed fine in IE6:
    http://andrewg.tv/blog/

  • Anonymous
    May 21, 2006
    i wonder why am i getting white patch at the logo part when i browsing one of my sites on ie ??
    this is the link : http://www.hidemyip.net
    could it be the css ? i am not sure if i am asking this question @ the right place.

  • Anonymous
    May 21, 2006
    Hi, it would be great to have a working "BACK" button in IE7 beta 2 (7.0.5335.5).. run a "back button IE" search on any search engine you will read the details... I assume development team is awaere of this annoyance..



  • Anonymous
    May 21, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2006
    Just woanted to say the IE7 Beta2 looks really fuzzy the websites don't look as clear as the IE6. Is there anyway of changing that?

  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2006
    I am having problem with print docs from IE7. The process is the same until I hit print and nothing happens. I just see the little print icon down in the status bar.  Every other applicaion is printing ok except ie7. IS there any way to resolve it?

  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2006
    I like the new look, however I don't like the security comment that I have to conitnually click past - "Your security setting level puts your computer at risk". It's very annoying and unnecessary after one or two logins. Can it be turned off?

    Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2006
    Thank You for this Great Explorer. Beats the pants off the Competitin.

    One quick question is IE going to Be for Windows XP Or just for Vista & Longhorn

  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2006
    @Shederick: IE7 is available for Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, and Windows Vista (formerly known as Longhorn).

    @Mike: What settings did you change to put your computer at risk?

    @M: Your best bet is to use the online ClearType Tuning wizard.  If you don't like ClearType, just turn it off using Tools | Internet Options | Advanced.

    @Erling: As described previously, IE uses ClearType with the option that does not change the size.  If you have a repro showing otherwise, please post a link.  

  • Anonymous
    May 23, 2006
    I think this new IE is fine. Microsoft is catching up, really. The look and feel is great - I love the tabs. I wish the use of the dropdown menus were more intuitive though. Seems the File menu is gone though.

  • Anonymous
    May 23, 2006
    hey,
    I'm from Belgium (Dutch)
    I like the new look of the IE 7 but find out that, some javascripts on my webpages don't work nomore with the IE7
    they work well with IE6
    my impression is that IE7 also works slower than IE6

    hope to be helpfull
    wish you a nice day


  • Anonymous
    May 23, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 24, 2006
    Told you I forgot something :|

    The feature that moves the Temporary Internet Folder doesn't work.

    It worked once, because I was testing it out. But when I want to move it, it says the folder has moved and it proceeds to log me off. I return, but I notice the directory has not moved. I have tried this multiple times, all, of course, without luck.

  • Anonymous
    May 25, 2006
    I am trying to find the right place to say this, and hope that this is it.

    IE7 is going cause serious problems for all web developers and generators of forms. Most code that generate forms turn off browser and server caching to ensure that the form changes to what the server has just sent when the user progresses from one page to another.

    It seems that if the server sends Cache-control: nocache to IE7, then IE7 in it's wisdom decides to GET the page again. What seems to happen is this:

    The user clicks, IE7 sends a GET, is returned the page, gets the other pieces of the page and finally GETs the page again. This breaks the inbuilt assumption that is used by many scripts and programmed pages - the user clicks, the browser does a GET, the server returns a page, end of transaction.

    If the page is generated on the fly using costly database accesses, then IE7 is going to overload database engines all over the world with the second GET.

    Worse, consider a simple programming check trying to test whether the result of a POST follows a GET. Many scripts generate a random number on the fly, place it in a hidden variable, and expect that value to be returned by the POST from the user's browser. This simple mechanism has existed since the start of the web, and is now broken by IE7.

    With IE7, the user does a GET and is returned a HIDDEN with a value on the form, and while they are considering the form, IE7 does a secret second GET. This cycles the server code, generates a new number  which no longer matches the value that the user is about the send with their POST. When the user hits the button, the returned page looks like someone sending spoof responses with some script.

    I've attempted to find documentation on all this, but looking for nocache or pre-check or post-check using search engines is a loss.

    IE7 Beta 2 is doing something that is radically different in behaviour from any browser that has existed in the past. It is breaking the transactional nature of the browser / server relationship. The cost to the world of putting it out with this feature is immense - it's going to break a lot of code - and actually it seems to me that in my case - I am going to have to remove a lot of checking designed to stop people hacking in and POSTing random requests at forms.

    I am not going to be able to stop idiots posting rubbish at web contact forms with scripts because I cannot ensure that a POST follows a GET.



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