Yahoo! ships customized IE7 beta 2

We often talk with our partners about all the ways they can take advantage of the extensibility in IE7. Today, Yahoo! released something new and (I think) pretty cool. “Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo!” presets the homepage and search to Yahoo properties. Of course, users can easily change the settings just as they can with the standard version that we ship. The Yahoo! version of IE7 is available now on the Yahoo site.

Yahoo! used the beta version of the Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) to customize IE7 to meet their needs. The IEAK is available to all developers and partners who want to create their own customized versions of IE7, as well as IT pros who want to use it to ease enterprise deployment. You can download it from the Microsoft Technet site.

Dean

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  Am I alone at feeling increasingly uneasy at the way that a Beta product is being distributed ever more widely, especially when Beta2 is clearly still buggy and Beta 3 is still on its way?

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  If beta 2 notifies you to the final version then it would be a great strategy to pushing IE7 out to as many users as possible.

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  Thomas, have you logged bugs or sent feedback about what you think is buggy? IE7 beta 2 has been working for me just fine in production.

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  Too bad Yahoo's new Mail interface (BETA) doesn't work with IE7.  They block users.  Apparently, the script doesn't allow for newer versions of a browser.

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  Thomas, do you use any of google's services???  Almost all of them are Beta and have been for a very long time.  I have IE7 Beta 2 installed in production with no troubles.

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  Another attempt by companies to lure less knowledgage users to their side, next thing we know, people will be saying yahoo made IE7.

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  >Today Yahoo! released something new and (I think)
  >pretty cool. “Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo!”
  
  "Something new?" Are you joking? I remember IE4 optimized/customized by various ISPs all over the world.
  
  You're only reinventing stuff that all browsers (even netscape!) already has, please stop wasting space on internet morons!

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  Better they use Yahoo search than Google I say!!
  
  Course MSN is best and that is what we all should be using.
  
  

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  your the best company

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  Heh heh heh... Google's case gets more and more ridiculous.

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  like all else , watch and see

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  Francis: IEAK has been around a long time, as you say.  What is new, is having a major search competitor with larger market share promote IE and set their search defaults.  Also, Firefox doesn't have the same level of customization available yet.  Some improvements to customizability are on the slate for FF 2.0 and beyond.
  
  Ray: Y! mail known issue; it's being worked on.
  
  

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  Ron, get a life

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  Just want to say that Yahoo's markup of that page is completely horrible. They're still using FONT tags of all things....

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  John, I've seen you around here a bit talking about design and what not, however your site is the only site I've ever viewed where it's easier to use when the stylesheet(s) is turned off.
  
  I would believe you if I hadn't seen your site.

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  > Also, Firefox doesn't have the same level of customization available yet.
  
  Hehe, that's funny. ;)
  
  http://www.mozilla.org/projects/cck/firefox/

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  To anyone that says Firefox lacks the customization kit that IE7 has, please silence yourselves...
  
  Firefox 1.5 CCK (Client Customization Kit) Wizard goes above and beyond what Microsoft offers...
  
  http://www.mozilla.org/projects/cck/firefox/
  
  The Firefox 1.5 CCK can be used to create an extension that customizes Firefox. It allows the following customizations:
  
     * Add identifer to the user agent string
     * Change the default home page and startup override home page
     * Change the title bar text
     * Change the animated logo
     * Change the web page and tooltip used for the animated logo
     * Add a help menu item that links to a web page
     * Provide sites for which popups and XPInstalls are allowed by default
     * Preinstall browser plug-ins
     * Preinstall search engines
     * Add folders, bookmarks and live bookmarks to the personal toolbar
     * Add folders, bookmarks and live bookmarks to the bookmarks folder
     * Set default preferences
     * Lock preferences
     * Add registry keys (Windows only)
     * Add certificates (See NOTE below)
     * Set default proxy configurations
     * Package other XPIs with your distribution
     * Disable about:config

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  Regarding the Yahoo! Mail Beta: They seem to have fixed the compatibility issues with IE7b2 - it works fine here.

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 10, 2006
  Any suggestions?  I downloaded IE7.0 beta 1 a couple of months ago.  I would now like to move to Beta 2 (which requires me to 1st uninstall beta 1).  The problem is that IE7.0 beta 1 does not show up in "Add Remove Programs" with "Show Updates Clicked".
  
  This means that I am stuck.  I have no way to go forward to IE7.0 Beta 2 or back to IE6.0.
  
  Any suggestiosn would be much apprecited.

• Anonymous
  June 10, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 10, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 10, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 10, 2006
  Compared to the level customisation provided by firefox, IE 7 beta 2 is relatively hardly anywhere near "customisable". But it is good to see Microsoft doesn't force people to use MSN search and opens up the market to competitors.
  
  I don't care about this really. All I hope is that IE 7 includes "default download manager option" to allow my download manager to completely takes over the role of IE's built-in download dialogue. I think IE 7 lacks only this feature to be usable as a modern browser.

• Anonymous
  June 10, 2006
  PingBack from http://www.jonloh.com/index.php/2006/06/11/windows-internet-explorer-7-beta-2-optimized-by-yahoo/

• Anonymous
  June 11, 2006
  Please can anyone confirm this:
  Go to http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmev.fopf.mipt.ru%2F%3Fget%3Dpictures%2Fwallpapers
  and scroll to the bottom
  
  IE7 should lag a lot and you should see some weird growing font/style discrepancies.
  
  Can some official also try it and confirm?

• Anonymous
  June 11, 2006
  People use IE7 in production? Obviously no clue about stability. Never put a Beta in production (unless you are a 2-3 person mom/pop shop).. :P
  

• Anonymous
  June 11, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 11, 2006
  sorry
  ie 7 beta search is to right of address bar.

• Anonymous
  June 11, 2006
  say yourself effort.
  yahoo optimized ie7 beta does not remove search bar to right of address bar in ie7 beta and no way to remove tab row as in yahoo tool bar with ie6.

• Anonymous
  June 11, 2006
  IE7 beta 2 is not stable version.It has Lots of bugs. Some lagging problems with tabs.And some scripting bugs. for example I can't modfiy my msn space and I can't submit photos to deviantart web pages. :( bad bata program. Google betas is the best

• Anonymous
  June 11, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 11, 2006
  PingBack from http://www.winfoblog.org/?p=169

• Anonymous
  June 12, 2006
  @ joe magnus
  
  MSN is the best?! When did this blog become the comedy channel?
  
  Anyone that has used the 'Net as a research tool, for the past 5 years, knows you missed the boat.
  
  If you want the latest celebrity gossip, 10 ways to change your man, fix your car, get a date, or BBQ chicken, then yes, MSN will give you want you want.
  
  But for those of us, that use Google, or Yahoo, or Ask, or Alta-Vista, etc. to search for meaningful stuff... like "How do you workaround the IE PNG Alpha transparency bug?" or "Where does JScript fall short of, or deviate from the ECMAScript specs?"
  
  We all know, that MSN is NOT the place to go.
  
  Neil

• Anonymous
  June 12, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 12, 2006
  How the heck we haven't beta 2 on spanish,why MS keeps excluding the spanish community!

• Anonymous
  June 12, 2006
  PingBack from http://kujis.com/bitsticks/?p=118

• Anonymous
  June 12, 2006
  Hi,
  Internet Explorer won't display my menu's in site's anymore ! What is wrong ? Is it your fault ?
  
  www.ksaoostende.be
  http://raversijde.awardspace.com
  
  You should get hover effect ant submenu must appair.
  Tanks!

• Anonymous
  June 12, 2006
  @Eduardo: Microsoft betas are localized into a variety of worldwide languages.  
  
  We don't choose which languages to localize to based on how many users there will be (or how much we like the language), but rather based on what's hardest or most likely to cause bugs.  
  
  For instance, we localize to Japanese early to ensure that we handle complex character sets correctly.  We do German early because German text is very long and likely to find any problems we have where text is too long to fit in the UI.  We do Arabic to ensure that Right-to-left text works as expected.  
  
  Fear not, we're going to have a great IE7 release in Spanish!

• Anonymous
  June 12, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 12, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 12, 2006
  Google is the best ... far better than Microsoft and Yahoo. Firefox is also the best browser.. i have done many many tests. The only thing microsoft does right is Windows.

• Anonymous
  June 12, 2006
  @John A. Bilicki III
  
  > It's a trunk, alpha, not even Beta, of course things are going to break.
  
  The builds are not even close to alpha. Nevertheless, there are only few rendering problems because of the switch to Cairo and most nightlies are stable (in fact, the trunk is my daily browser, and I'm a quite heavy user ...).
  But I have to apologise: There was a recent regression with the stacking order of absolutely positioned elements. It was fixed after three days and your website does work now. That was bad luck.
  
  > Reflow branch? I beleive I mentioned I don't follow production of Mozilla products as closely as I used to on this very page.
  
  That's why I'm telling you.
  http://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:Reflow_Refactoring
  
  > Really old bugs that the Mozilla team isn't bothering to fix that are holding the browser and rendering engine back.
  
  Of course there are bugs, also ancient ones, but I don't think they are holding things back largely.
  
  > Nice site btw Dao, I'll add you to my list of A.X.X. supporting sites.
  
  What's A.X.X.?

• Anonymous
  June 12, 2006
  @Steve: Window.popup still exists (e.g. this page http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/popup/default.htm still works).
  
  That being said, security restrictions were imposed in XPSP2 (or earlier?) that make it so that this method is no longer any more interesting than any of the other myriad DHTML layering methods that exist in all browsers.  You can't use this method to overdraw the IE frame or other applications.

• Anonymous
  June 12, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 13, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 13, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 13, 2006
  First, THANK you for doing whatever you did to fix problems with connecting to banks.  It was great to not have to uninstall to check my balance :)
  
  Second,  congrats on the win with Yahoo.  
  It IS a little odd they'd be distributing a beta, but as long as their customers know it's a beta, it's probably going to be ok.
  
  Third, I know it's kind of late in the game, but the autocomplete/password stuff is still a little buggy.  Sometimes it doesn't complete on tab or click.  
  
  Anyone working on this?

• Anonymous
  June 16, 2006
  saludos
  
  
  

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  June 17, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 20, 2006
  Persone los pioneros non rabata. Great...

• Anonymous
  June 20, 2006
  I love IE 7 Beta 2. I just install Windows Vista Beta 2 as well and I love it. Of course there may be bugs still but I haven't found any yet with either program and Windows Vista is a huge improvement. I went to MAC when XP came out. Vista doesn't replace my MAC but it serves as a filler when I am at work. Vista has actually taken a lot of things from OS X and made them windows. For one the Widgets are a part of Vista as well as voice narrater. The look is amazing like OS X, but it still does focus on work tasking as Windows is known for.

• Anonymous
  December 11, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 11, 2007
  Although Yahoo! and Google have already released an "optimized" version of Windows Internet Explorer

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