Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1

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loeakaodas

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It is and improvement over the older version, but some things like the location of the toolbars and the akwardness of the Refresh/Stop button are frustrating :angry: . The RSS read functinality is also good, but could be improved as it doesnt display new entries in the Favorites menu like Firefox. And here is a result of the Acid2 Test:

IE7

Firefox 1.06

Deer Park Alpha 2

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amrinders87

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After playing around with it for a couple of hours, I really like it. I even liked the placement of the File... menu alongside with the buttons to make the top toolbars take even less space.

Popupblocker is really nice, it seems the same as in IE 6 SP2. But it blocks more stuff then the Firefox one.

It launches a lot faster compared to Firefox, about twice as fast.

Its just missing a good password manager. Other than that, its really nice.

I am still angry at MS because they still have not made any changes to support z-index property on drop down menus and listboxes. :angry:

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ZonoBurk

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put the exe in a folder for example C:\...

then START > RUN > CMD > C:\IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe /passive > hit enter

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I've been trying that for 4 hours. I see the extracting taking place, but nothing else happens. I guess my computer just don't want it. :cry:

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