Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1

under Online Life on October 31st, 2005 at 1:02 am

I have had it for a few weeks but i couldnt install it cause well … i didnt get much time and i didnt need it. But now that i downgraded my pc, i finally installed it. Its been about half an hour but this is what i feel.


Some New Stuff:
* The arrangement of stuff is a bit different but ok i guess. But it causes a lot of wastage of space :-/
* The coulmns and all should have been rearrangable
* Where is my Stop button :-/ I want it back :sad: The Stop and the refresh button have been merged together to replace the go button ;)
* Tabs is a good system, like firefox :rolleyes: But its good that if you click the edge of the last one then a new one opens. I was wondering why the older one didnt end :P
* Search bar, Firefox style …. good idea tho :)


Some Incompatibilities That i know of:
* Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) 7.5 doesnt auto trigger. So i had to remove it.
* Im not sure that Trixie is totally compatible either *-) So I’m using turnaround.


Google.Com Autodetects wether you are using IE 7 and gives you a message on how to make Google your default search engine for the IE 7 Searchbar if it already isnt. Or we could have just clicked the search button and goto search settings and change it there :rolleyes:


Performance wise it seems to look good :) Working well so far :) Tho my status bar is missing myteriously and i dunno how to get it back. If someone knows how …. please help me.

Imho IE would be awesome if it had a bookmarks toolbar cause that makes FF stand out for me :) Its my favourite feature ;) Also the right click and “Copy link/image location” is a real must :P This is already there in the copy shortcut function but this only works for shortcut not the images :sad:

Not as good as firefox (who are we kidding, it’ll prolly never be that good) but its quite good still imo :)
Firefox still pwns IE are userability, looks and the ability to modify it with scripts and stuff (trixie is still too small for my liking :P)


Also i dont know why but my site looks different on IE and FF :P
There are already a few ways to modify IE (like get rid of the search bar and stuff) so im looking for a way to get my stop button back :tongue:

And there is one thing that i have found where IE is better than FF IE can display files correctly even if they have spaces in them but for firefox it is a must that those names should have %20

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