Update: Microsoft IE7 Beta 2 Preview Released for Download
Posted by Steven Parker on 21 March 2006 - 08:24 · 63 comments & 28990 views
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#1 Posted by Electronic Punk on 21 Mar 2006 - 08:32
- Steve, I can't believe you just called me Electric Punk :p
edit: hehe
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#1.2 Posted by Electronic Punk on 21 Mar 2006 - 08:55
- Yeah just spotted
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#2 Posted by AngelicRaver on 21 Mar 2006 - 08:33
- Anyone know the version number on this one? Is it the same as the internal beta 2?
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#3 Posted by Dane2003 on 21 Mar 2006 - 08:33
- Good catch and about time, I hope it fixes the major bugs ive seen.
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#4 Posted by shirike on 21 Mar 2006 - 08:35
- I wouldn't install this on your main Windows installation if you have any plans to revert to version 6 - when you revert to version 6 the security & content features are totally screwed.
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#4.1 Posted by jadkins555 on 21 Mar 2006 - 18:30
- While this was true for the intial Public Preview, this new version removes without a hitch. Did you personally experience this problem when removing this newer build?
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#5 Posted by physarl on 21 Mar 2006 - 08:43
- opening new tab will show up some nice info about tab feature..
and (by default) creating new tab from a link will fire up new tab just next to current tab u're working on..
not at the far right ..
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#6 Posted by ttam on 21 Mar 2006 - 08:56
- This version fixed a bug that I had w/ DHTML popups crashing IE, but now there's a new bug with rendering CSS. When looking at any CSS enabled myspace page (I'm sure it's like this for others, but if anything's going to stress IE code, it Myspace - I mean, c'mon) the screen flashes very fast between just showing the background and showing the page normally (w/ tables and such). Arrrgh. I love IE7, but it'll be nice once all this is fixed.
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#7 Posted by NemesisNG on 21 Mar 2006 - 09:42
- This is meant to be layout complete, but at a first glance it look the same layout at the first beta 2 pr?
At least you can now set the new tabs open your home page and not just a blank page!
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#7.1 Posted by hosebeast on 24 Mar 2006 - 08:24
- They're not talking about the GUI layout. They mean the rendering engine which interprets HTML, CSS, and other content types to "layout" a page. The phrase "layout complete" means that they have finished implementing all the new rendering features they plan to include in this release, such as CSS2.1 selectors, alpha channel in PNG, etc. By announcing this milestone, they are letting web designers and developers know they can start testing in all the various areas. Anything which doesn't work is therefore a bug (rather than merely being unfinished) and should be reported.
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#8 Posted by Darkness2k on 21 Mar 2006 - 10:32
- Created Date: 22 April 2005, 10:33:58 (on certain files)
I guess not everything has changed for a while
Or is this Created Date from when that exe was first started (i.e. the first build of IE7)?
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#9 Posted by BBinder on 21 Mar 2006 - 10:34
- this beta is really good havent had any problems with it, and it seems to load pages faster even when i'm downloading multiple files from bittorent, which is really cool cos as before it was slow page loading thumbs up
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#10 Posted by jamesisdaman on 21 Mar 2006 - 10:57
- yep a lot faster page loading and the tab poping up next to the page your on is very nice! well done MS
still not a fan of the favorites center thing needs a re think!
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#11 Posted by dbuske on 21 Mar 2006 - 10:57
- It put the Yahoo toolbar on without even asking. I had to uninstall, because I found no way to remove it. Yahoo toolbar is well known spyware.
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#11.1 Posted by virtorio on 21 Mar 2006 - 11:21
- Disable it on the Add-on Manager? Right click the toolbar and deselect Yahoo! Toolbar?
First I heard about it begin spyware.
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#12 Posted by Jexel on 21 Mar 2006 - 11:02
- I've actually removed the uninstaller for IE7 due to Ccleaner. Is there anyway else I can uninstall it?
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#12.1 Posted by frail on 21 Mar 2006 - 11:19
- There's probably an easier way but I suppose you can reinstall to get the uninstaller back and then uninstall before running Ccleaner again.
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#12.2 Posted by Jexel on 21 Mar 2006 - 11:51
- unfortunately you need to uninstall in order to reinstall
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#12.3 Posted by Daninku on 21 Mar 2006 - 12:31
- I have the same problem, unfortunately CCleaner is set to clean Microsoft Updates installation material, thus it cleaned IE7 too. I get a message to uninstall the current version fro the Add/Remove Programs Applet under Windows Updates but obviously it's not there. Is there anyway I can still remove the current version and install the new one?
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#12.4 Posted by Darkness2k on 21 Mar 2006 - 12:45
- try removing from the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstallie7b2pmx
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftUpdatesWindows XPSP0ie7b2pmx
Then, replace your iexplore file (C
rogram FilesInternet Exploreriexplore.exe) with the iexplore.exe from Internet Explorer 6.
Now when you run the IE7 installer again, it should pass its "checks" to see if you have IE7 already installed and let you install again.
It worked for me when going from 7b1 to 7b2 anyway.
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#12.5 Posted by jaxius on 21 Mar 2006 - 18:43
- Here is really good M$ uninstallerless proggy
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;290301 -
#12.6 Posted by Saadu on 21 Mar 2006 - 21:17
- Darkness2k
I tried that but when i remove the exe file, WFP restores the damn exe back...
I looked up disabling WFP but that thing also is a mess with hex editing and all...
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#12.7 Posted by Jexel on 22 Mar 2006 - 06:50
- Thanks Darkness2k! It works fine.
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#12.8 Posted by j0j081 on 22 Mar 2006 - 12:34
- CCleaner seems to mess up a lot of uninstall programs. I had trouble removing and updating Nero 7 because of it.
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#12.9 Posted by Saadu on 22 Mar 2006 - 14:52
- I wish someone would post their zipped $NtUninstallie7bet2p$ from build 5296
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#12.10 Posted by Darkness2k on 22 Mar 2006 - 16:04
- Saadu..
You should replace your iexplore.exe with one from IE6. I don't think the file protection replaces it then. As long as it says version 6 when you run the new IE7 setup, it should be ok
(I think the iexplore.ex_ will be on your Windows XP CD under i386 anyway... note that .ex_ will be compressed, so just uncompress the real iexplore.exe from it.)
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#12.11 Posted by Saadu on 22 Mar 2006 - 16:57
- Darkness2k Thanks a lot for that tip. I didnt know the iexplorer.ex_ file is compressed. I kept renaming the ex_ to exe and WFP kept replacing it Unzipped it and was able to install the update. Thanks for the help.
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#13 Posted by Litespeed on 21 Mar 2006 - 11:48
- I think it is quite a bit better than the previous version. Pages render faster, and the memory usage, although high, doesn't seem to be leaking - when you minimise the window, it releases all but about 4mb so my guess is that they have some smart memory management going on behind the scenes.
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#13.1 Posted by Darkness2k on 21 Mar 2006 - 12:46
- I believe Adshield still works with IE7.
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#14 Posted by ThomMcK on 21 Mar 2006 - 12:22
- I was excited about the preview refresh, looking forward to seeing what suggested layout changes MS had implemented.
I uninstalled the old preview, restarted, installed the new preview, restarted and then loaded it up (no install probs at all).
I then spent 30 mins to find out anything that had changed! All I can spot is that the built in RSS reader looks a bit cleaner and the favourites have an -> instead of a x.
What changes have others seen?
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#15 Posted by predator001 on 21 Mar 2006 - 12:39
- if you already have an IE7 preview on your machine do you need to uninstall it first and go back to 6 or can you just lump it on top?
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#15.1 Posted by Darkness2k on 21 Mar 2006 - 12:47
- You need to uninstall first (officially) as its setup routine checks a few places to see if you have IE7 already installed. Probably safer and cleaner to uninstall an older preview of IE7 (as the setup will tell you when you try to install over another copy of IE7).
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#16 Posted by Allan® on 21 Mar 2006 - 14:02
- Same problem I had before, going from 5296 to 5299... fav's are broken. I can't use them. I completely uninstalled the old version of IE 7, then installed the new one. BUT if they can't get my damn favs to work, again, I'll wait till the final is released. Period.
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#17 Posted by Ogden2k on 21 Mar 2006 - 14:12
- Nice, looks like they fixed the WYSIWYG text editor bug I reported.
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#18 Posted by rIaHc3 on 21 Mar 2006 - 14:23
- Question; Im on 56K till my router gets fixed so I want to download the setup when Im at school then transport it to my MP4 player. Is there a link for the full offline english instalation?
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#18.1 Posted by Darkness2k on 21 Mar 2006 - 15:27
- As far as I know, the 12meg file you get is the complete setup file. It may do some online validation etc, but the majority of the install should be in the download.
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#19 Posted by windows95isg8 on 21 Mar 2006 - 14:33
- It does seem a little faster to me
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#20 Posted by LoR*Evanescence on 21 Mar 2006 - 14:50
- I'm looking forward to when they release a 64-bit IE 7. For now, I can't install it on my system=
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#21 Posted by lcorona on 21 Mar 2006 - 15:26
- what about the mcafee bug?
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#22 Posted by shockz on 21 Mar 2006 - 18:14
- This build is shotty... 3 of my computers won't run it correctly... the ttle bar freezes and won't function correctly, hanging the program. Oh well... it is a beta after all.
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#23 Posted by Stew Gilray on 21 Mar 2006 - 18:23
- Error during install. I uninstalled last public beta, then installed new build
Get error, fails to install, here's the log details...
90.297: Copied file: C:WINDOWSsystem32en-USwininet.dll.mui
90.344: DoInstallation: Installing assemblies with source root path: d:45189434b42eb043fdd38bf865d6
90.344: Num Ticks for Copying files : 24188
90.938: DoRegistryUpdates:UpdSpInstallFromInfSection Failed for ProductInstall.GlobalRegistryChanges.Install error: 0x5
90.938: INF_REGISTRY Failed
90.938: DoInstallation: DoRegistryUpdates failed
91.094: Access is denied.
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#23.1 Posted by codezero on 21 Mar 2006 - 18:29
- I got the same error as you, and when I try to uninstall the bad install it said I had to use the same account to uninstall it which I am doing lol
Anyway to fix it just go to your registry HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftInternet Explorer and add the DWORD, InstalledByUser set it to 1 after naming the DWORD and it should uninstall by adding that key.
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#24 Posted by jadkins555 on 21 Mar 2006 - 18:31
- Can anyone with an AOL Screen Name try going to http://www.musicnow.com? I am having troubles getting the page to load with IE 7, but it might be isolated to just me.
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#25 Posted by jaxius on 21 Mar 2006 - 18:40
- disregard
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#26 Posted by mr.roberts on 21 Mar 2006 - 18:54
- I have been trying this for a while on my only and main computer. Only minor bugs but it's a good browser for a change from version 6.
I will be formatting (been trying free open-source software for a while and now my system is sagging down) and staying off this until the final release comes out.
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#27 Posted by fragmore on 21 Mar 2006 - 20:10
- I cannot see the menu bar, nor figure out how to turn it on. Anyone have an answer.
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#27.1 Posted by JRosenfeld on 21 Mar 2006 - 23:41
- Right click on Toolbar, click Classic Menu
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#28 Posted by msgsbox on 21 Mar 2006 - 21:06
- I got allplication error related to memory thing. I have to uninstall it. Anyone know where I can find the previous edition, which worked fine for me?
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#29 Posted by 6XGate on 21 Mar 2006 - 21:32
- I've been having script errors when using IE's Trident engine in Firefox and Windows Media Player. I hope they fixed that.
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#30 Posted by Orange on 21 Mar 2006 - 22:57
- Thanks
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#31 Posted by xpgeek on 22 Mar 2006 - 00:19
- Not bad, does seem a bit faster. Still wish I could move the toolbars around.
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#32 Posted by MDboyz on 22 Mar 2006 - 04:05
- Does anyone has problem with the back history?
try this link : http://vcdz.new.fr
IE7 doesn't seem to save my back history urls from that site.... weird.
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#33 Posted by bjc4ever on 22 Mar 2006 - 05:47
- Direct Link:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/5...sXP-x86-enu.exe
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#34 Posted by barrix on 23 Mar 2006 - 19:05
- lots of bug in IE 7
can't used it
i'm sticking wid IE 6.0
Developers and IT pros: Download and evaluate the newest, layout-complete build of the Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview - released on March 20th — and explore the improvements in security, user interface, and development platform.
Please note that this release is only for Windows XP. Currently x64 versions of XP and Windows Server 2003 are not supported.
Feedback Welcome!