IE7 Beta 1: The Annoyances
There are few things that annoy me about IE 7.00.5112. First off, it’s not all that great. I just don’t feel overwhelmed when I run it, you know? I definitely had high expectation when I downloaded it, but those are all in vain. Instead, I have the following Internet Explorer 7 gripes:
1) The base color of the tabs is different than the rest of the application’s base color:
2) The tabs bar has an extra tab nubbin to open a new tab:
3) The refresh button has been placed seemingly randomly:
4) The standard windows UI layout of putting the file menu at the top has been broken. The file menu is now underneath the tabs:
5) The phishing filter makes no attempt to prevent me from reporting Microsoft.com:
Phishing Filter Feedback: Confirmation
Thank you for reporting www.microsoft.com/ as a suspected phishing site. Your feedback is important and helps us to better protect customers from phishing.
You can read more about their laughable filter here: msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/IETechCol/dnwebgen/MSPhishingFilterWP.asp
6) The phishing filter thinks submitting user information via POST is bad:
7) Internet Explorer will close when you hit close, no matter how many tabs you have open. You can even watch it kill the tabs one by one on a slower machine:
The search is automatically Google. Why doesn’t the IE Team promote MSN? The tagline here is “Microsoft loves Google:”
9) There is a lot of wasted space on the links bar. For some reason, every link appears to have a min-width setting that makes them overly wide. So, the links bar that was half empty before in IE6 is now running off the screen:
For some other interesting takes on IE7, you can read Is Internet Explorer 7 blocking Google?, IE7 CSS Updates, Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 Tips & Tricks, and The Real Reason Microsoft Won’t Support CSS2 in IE7.
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IE 7 is PATHETIC… Miscrosoft is going down the drain..cant imagine them making this better any more.
IE7 u get the pop-up blocker which blocks everything thing. And it will do so even if you turn it Off.
1. Drop downs dont work
2. they ask u install the beta version….but hey u have a drop down there…did u forget????
3. On click of link on google search reslts….it takes to some stupid advertisements.
4. And worst is you cannot install IE6 again..
5. You can t even browse and add an attachment on yahoo…how cool is that.
I think I will surely dump Microsoft someday!! and its going to be soon
You guys suck!!
So, I went to microsoft update. It told me I need to use IE 5 or later, despite me having 6. It made me install this bullshit that is 7.
It still wont update, and now I have wasted my time, and will promptly uninstall this.
If M$ are so retarded that their uber secure website is refusing even IE7 to access updates, then I cant wait to go back to bloody linux.
well,where can i download this ie7,and if it’s a cracked version,i’ll be glad.
How can I uninstall this POS from Vista? Cant!
Overall, I like the beta version, but I cannot access several sites that are critical to my life, one is my bank, Wells Fargo’s site among others. So I need to remove this version 7 and get back to where I was previously just to run my finances online, which is very important to me.
I have read over 8 blogs/forums for how to uninstall this thing and I have tried them all with no luck. Most are just parroting the source, so they are identical instructions. It does not show up in the add/remove list with the “updates” box checked. I have tried all the other long paths in the “run” from start menu and from c:\ prompt in CMD window. And my hidden files is enabled. No LUCK!! I need deeper help….any suggestions?
I’m likely not going to ever be on this blog again, so if you truely think you can help me get back to ver 6 safely, please call me to assist me. ph# 512-844-4111 (10am to 7pm CST) HUGE THANKS
“you lame open source obsessed morons”
Wardy…you’re a ****. ’nuff said.
It suprises me how many people refuse to accept the obvious truth that is progress !!
As time goes on people demand more from their hardware and this requires more powerful software, I am newly qualified as a microsoft certified Progammer using the C# language they designed for the framework and from my point of view the features that a new browser makes availible are improving the experience that a user has when they visit any web site.
I noticed CSS was talked about but not XML or HTML … both also considered industry standards and on top of these XSL Tranforms can be used on XML now and are interpereted fine every time from what ive seen.
These are newer technologies that go with newer software that talks to newer hardware … whenever you release a new product it will have bugs these are garanteed but i think with all the bashing that microsoft has taken lately they have learnt a lot of lessons….
1. Security has never been good enough
Vista and IE7 are designed to work together and provide a whole host of protection features that will give the user peace of mind in this field. And dont even go there with the whole linux thing … linux doesnt come with any security software that has to be purchased from a company on top … wernt the point to open source supposed to promote free software ???
2. Bugs … there has always been more than usual in microsoft products
This is perception exploited by the open source community as they feel somehow that microsofts aim is to take over the world … what the hell would a bunch of random people know about building a stable platform in any shape or form for a start … microsoft pretty much pick and choose the best in the industry to work for them as a team on a project … these people are dam good at what they do and the MSDN library is all the evidence il ever need on that front … so who develops linux exactly ???
from what ive seen theres one company on the kernel then another for each product that comes mounted on top of it !!!
So logically if i spent 2 hours looking for bugs in any microsoft product then looked for 2 hours in to any other product from just about any other company that was designed to do the same job what’s the betting i would find the same number of bugs in that ? … possibly more because if was developed by a team of people from the open source community they would have no idea of each others way of thinking and a total lack of a common goal wouldnt they ??
3. The hardware issue .. new stuff means slower speed
This is not the case the performance is still there at doing the original task but because there are new features these also need a bit of proccessing power and a little resource allocation here and there !!!
I saw someone on another forum moaning about the .net framework last week because it takes 20 megs of ram … lets think about that … universal framework to which you can fundamentally derive just about any product from and enables seamless cross language integration with the OS and total saftey checking of your code for flaws … 20 megs … yes ican see how thats a massive resource killer when the average pc these days even for joe poor is running at least a p2 with a reasonable amount of ram … lets say minimum of about 64 megs for arguments sake ??
Vista and IE7 both reccommend a high spec pc for an optimal experience they do not demand it !!!
Ive had vista running like lightning on my other halves laptop and its only got a 1 ghz proccessor with 64 megs of ram and a standard graphics card that shares the system ram !!!
so just coz you lame open source obsessed morons think some old kernel from 50 years ago is faster at doing 1 thing than a core part of windows it dont mean that everything that comes out of microsoft is **** … grow up and learn to be properly objective if your going to complain !!!
No offence to our host here as i felt his comments wer based on real boggles he may consider to be annoying in the long run and his guest from the IE7 dev team here appreciates this to i see.
Regards,
Wardy
They added something in so that if you changed computer accounts you cannot uninstall it. Too bad I can’t find how to bypass this anywhere. I deleted the account I had it on and made a new one due to some annoyances I had on that account. Anyone know how I can handle this?
Since it’s not actually here on the page I thought I’d volunteer how to ACTUALLY uninstall it:
To uninstall Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 or 2 and return to Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2:
1. Click “Start,” and then click “Control Panel.”
2. Click “Add or Remove Programs.”
3. Select “Show Updates” at the top of the dialog box, if it is not
already selected.
4. Scroll down the list to “Windows XP – Software Updates,” select
“Internet Explorer 7 Beta (version #, could be 1 or 2),” and then click “Change/Remove.”
5. Hands off until you get the message to reboot. SAY YES TO REBOOT!!!
6. After restart, init may be a bit slower than usual, this is normal as there may be some background file restores.
7. All done. Back to where you started; take a deep breath.
Oh come on people, when MS first releases IE they got smacked around for being a monopoly, they are just doing thier duty releasing a buggy piece of **** that drives people away from using their software, we all know google will rule the software game soon enough (as soon as bandwidth increases) and MS only survives by convincing you to upgrade every two seconds. 2000 was as stable an interface as was ever needed by the world but they screwed that up by making XP, and now Vista which seems to need 8 to 9 Gig of hard drive space, the hardware companies invent more powerful Hardware, and MS makes new operating systems to slow it back down, we all know this is true, you run 2000 on any modern computer and its like a rocket ship, now Vista comes along with soe ingrained visual effects designed to waste resources and force people to upgrade to a newer platform HELLO we still have companies with server gear out there that can’t be upgraded from 98 or NT, as far as this Ie7 goes, its ****, you know it I know it we all know it, for starters isn’t it about time MS started using some smart cacheing into local system ram, instead of making people fight windows and using their little Ram drive setups just to get better performance, most of us will be running with at least 2 gig of ram insiede of 2 years, (I will have 4) and for god sake try to ADD to an older product GUI not redesign it, its looks fine already as for your transition effects and ****, ooh I am so impressed (NOT) they make me feel quesy, nobody buys windows for the special effects, we want stable, secure, and friendy enough that we can teach grandma to send an email, without having to relearn to pilot the OS, to the guy who runs the development team for ie7, why not make it look clean and simple, most people seem to be bitching over the look, nevermind about the bad code and the rest, we all have 5-7 years of updates to fix that, you programers need to have some marketing people work with you, I will only be buying vista and the whole mess for some hopefully working 64 bit support (no offence to you wonderful linux users) Stop reinventing the wheel and just sell the car already.
Sorry to flame Ms, they are just too ritch too have to make a bigger effort lol
I stand astonished how much people do NOT understand about the concept of Beta software! Especially a first beta!
Now if it had been posted as a release candidate I agree it would have been a completely different story, but guys, this is a software company giving you something to give feedback on, and has not been sold as the last and final version.
It is a stake in the ground to work from. It is easier for people to assist with guiding the want’s and want-not’s if they can get something to look at rather than reading a document with lots of jargon!
Be constructive, and work towards something that is applicable to a wider audience and keep the petty gripes to yourself!
ie7 is superb as it is java featured, tabs makes it very handy to use and i think somewhere speed is also increased
These are exactly the mistakes that i found in my first 2 hours of use of the IE 7 beta 1 … Tis ok but it has soooo many flaws :-/
Wrt point 6 or yours) Your wp admin panel is ok … mine looks aweful. The posting page is dreadful. Especially the part where you have to select which category it goes into. In this case FF >> IE 7
One of the biggest jokes was that ms phishing report thing lol
And see this one pic for starters. It says your site is supicious :S