Comments on: IE 7 Beta 3 is here

By: pixelsurge

pixelsurge — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:02:50 +0000

I found a way to install beta 3 as a standalone:
http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone

By: pixelsurge

pixelsurge — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:06:19 +0000

Is there any way to install IE7 as the standalone, instead of IE6 as the standalone? I know this was possible with beta 2, but I can’t get it to work with beta 3. See my forum post for the details:
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=400730

By: helmut

helmut — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 05:31:49 +0000

The arrangement of the user interface is no good in beta2, esp. the placement of the adress bar above the standard menu is very bad. The standard menu has to be the top line! Some other features are quite good, ie. the bookmark-opener, which opens automatically the precedingly opened bookmark folder again.
I tried to install beta3, but Win XP SP2 said: iesetup.exe is not an approved application. BTW: After uninstalling beta2 (preparing for a beta3 install) IE6 recovered automatically from MS nirvana. So I was quite glad to have IE6 back!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:45:51 +0000

i have installed ie7. My help and support centre in windows does not work properly. Especially Use Tools to view your computer information and diagnose problems. Then offer remote assistance.

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By: wwb_99

wwb_99 — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 13:47:24 +0000

@kevin: I really advise against running standalone versions. One is alot better off using Virtual PC, as suggested by the IE team, to do the cross-browser testing.

@coffee_ninja: I never said I liked IE7 . I actually was not impressed with the previous initial versions and have not got around to testing it out again.

@maartenvr: This is why one should not install IE betas on a production machine. Unfortunately, IE, as a windows component, gets used in many, many applications. Such as quickbooks. I have found that even locking down the security settings in IE can cause some things to have issues.

I should note that the bulk of the readiness toolkit is aimed at desktop applications using IE to render things rather than web applications.

By: Jonnay

Jonnay — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 18:32:35 +0000

Beware of using IE standalones. Every once in awhile you are going to run into weird browser rendering bugs that don’t exist on a clean install.

By: maartenvr

maartenvr — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:06:54 +0000

My problems with IE7 are everything else it messes up. I use Quickbooks, after installing IE7 my entire layout was all over the place, fonts were twice the size etc. I uninstalled IE7, and I got everything back to normal.

The other thing I hated was the toolbars… they were not as customizable as in IE6. In IE6 I was able to move everything just about exactly where I wanted it, remove what I wanted, etc. With IE7 that is not the case…

By: dsa1971

dsa1971 — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:11:16 +0000

Maybe I’ll get used to IE 7 but I have hated it so far. I don’t really see why they felt they needed to move the navigation around but I guess that is what Microsoft does best with any application upgrade. They wouldn’t want people to get used to where things are in an application.

By: coffee_ninja

coffee_ninja — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:35:56 +0000

My problem with IE 7 has been, since beta 1, the user interface. All these new features that FF and Opera have had for years are pointless when buttons I clicked the most are now hidden away under IE’s newer, “cleaner” UI.

Considering most browsers have exactly the same buttons in exactly the same places, was Internet Explorer 6’s interface really that broken?