ChefDude

it's fantastic!!


you can get thumbnail pages of all your open windows

Iain Young

You can do that with ie6 if you install the appropriate powertool

Haven't tried vista yet. Must give it a go soon...

ChefDude

err, i'm on xp sp2

Iain Young

I thought ie7 was only available as part of vista, didn't realise you could get a beta download for xp. Trying it now

lightning101

the fully cracked one is on mininova, but it won't work with x64 windows

Daniel-S

I've got it but use firefox

Iain Young

Hmm, doesn't exactly seem bug free. Only been running it 5 minutes and I've already had it crash once, and it seems to have problems rendering certain elements. It's not getting the z-order correct for positionable divs for example.

Still, it's only a beta

ChefDude

it works on scoobynet
and yahoo mail

I'm good

MJB2

Been using it for a couple of weeks and i dont like it.
Miss having the File, menu along the top. Cant find a button to search whats on the page. Since installing it, ive now found i like firefox lol good one M$!

EDIT: Just figured out F10 brings up the menu but then it goes again!? Found the quick tabs, not impressed!

Iain Young

You should feed that information back into MS. That's what the beta is for

I use firefox as well, but when using it all day for web development, you soon realise that it has it's fair share of bugs as well. I get it to locking up / hanging fairly frequently, although it does seem to do a good job of rendering stuff in the latest release (a lot of the bugs from the previous release have gone).

I find it too unstable for everyday use, and I don't trust the security in it, (in fact I trust the security less than Internet Explorer).

InvisibleMan

been using it for quite a while now even though it is buggy & crashes the tabs arent bad when you get used to them

ChefDude

i think the tabs are excellent

the only reason i found this version is i had the grand idea today of "why can't i see a semitransparent thumbnail image of the page of the link i'm hovering over??"

bit late to patent it

GaryK

nope staying with FF, IE7 is too little too late IMO.

stiscooby

Tried the Beta version on my PC at work, as already said the tabs are nice but I kinda miss the refresh & stop buttons? Are they tucked away somewhere or am i missing something???

Iain Young

Just a shame about all the bugs, otherwise I'd be using it for a main browser as well.

Iain Young

They are at the top of the window, just to the right of the address bar. One button for refresh, and one for stop. At least, that's where they are on mine...

boxst

Hello

I've been using it and I think it is good. Not really a revolution (or in fact too much different). I like the tabs (although they look a bit naf in the Beta version).

Steve

ChefDude

there's a non beta version?

where?

boxst

Hello

Not as far as I know. A few people from Microsoft that I know said that the tabs will look much better than they do now.

I'm using 7.0.5112

STeve

ChefDude

i'm using 7.0.5296

Chris L

As you can in FF, if you install the correct extension

As Iain rightly says - FF is by no means perfect and a lot of bugs have come to light as its popularity has increased - this is inevitable. And so the same will happen with IE7. The difference is that for many people, anything that MS produces is immeadiately an object of hate for them, so expect to the exploits coming thick and fast - I'm sure some of my technical team are working on it at the moment

InvisibleMan

5299

Though atm i still prefer the look of aols version of ie7

GaryK

I agree to a point Iain it seems with subsequent releases more bugs have crept in but I dont really have any major issues but then I dont do web dev so cant say I really stress it, FF just sits there on google, SN and ebay all the time!

InvisibleMan

it looks good when you use it with Vistas Glass effects

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

What, where pls?

Iain Young

One of my biggest gripes with it at the moment is that after refreshing a page a numerous times, especially when there is a large amount of javascript on the page, FF will simply stop working. It doesn't matter what you type into the address bar, it just sits there looking busy (animating the page loading logo), and doesn't do anything else. At that point I have to close the browser and start again with a new one.

This in itself isn't too bad for a single page, but if dealing with forms, and the form it dies on is the 5th in a sequence (for example), it can be quite annoying.

I've replicated this on 4 different machines, so I know it's nothing to do with my setup. I've also noticed that it has memory leaks which are evident after it's been running for a while.

I'm also a little worried about the number of fairly large security holes that have been found in it recently, some of which have allowed very low level access into the system. They have been fixed (although not as quickly as I'd like), but it makes you wonder what else is lurking in there...

It does look prettier than ie6/7 though

mart360

dont use ie any more,

there going the way of aol,

i want to be able to choose what i use to open apps/ windows/ media etc.

i dont like one piece of software trying to be top dog, any proggy i find trying that gets uninstalled

Mart

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

been using it work a few months or so, not bad, but is it just me, or when you are typing a messahe/post on scoobynet, if you make a typo, normally you backpsace to the problem and then start typing again, but in ie7, as you backpsace it does not delete the characters and you have to guess where you typed or start typing again where the cursor is. fecking annoying i can tell you. try it yourself and see if it just me going mad or not

InvisibleMan

yes your right it does do that

also i find a little annoying is when you open up another tab its blank and cant get it going to your homepage(got it going to google) i know its only beta but aols one has been around for over a year, holding back on the good stuff or will it really be this poor