Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 build 5291

[chopyaedoff]

The IE7 UI you see poking through in this concept shot is what would kill Firefox.

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That concept of IE is basicly just a copy of FF - down to nearly ever detail.

[Angel Blue01]

I don't understand. When they made IE5 for Win98\2000 they kept the icons. Wouldn't it be the same for XP?

[Brandon Live Veteran]

That concept of IE is basicly just a copy of FF - down to nearly ever detail.

What are you smoking? Are you saying it's a copy of FF in that it is a browser that displays web pages? Or is it because it has a search box? (which FF copied from 15 other browsers before it).

I don't understand. When they made IE5 for Win98\2000 they kept the icons. Wouldn't it be the same for XP?

Those icons are far from final. In fact the entire UI is still not finished. And the colors look really funky in those shots.

[Blackice]

That concept of IE is basicly just a copy of FF - down to nearly ever detail.

What?! How on earth did you come to that conclusion?? Whenever I start Firefox, I don't get anything near that sleek a UI. Besides, FF doesn't have QuickTabs :p

[Bitlocker]

I think this is fake,it look like edit from vista and not for XP.

[dagamer34]

The IE7 UI you see poking through in this concept shot is what would kill Firefox.

The Vista UI you see in this concept screenshot would make me a happy camper. I think it just needs some changes in the colors department.

Sadly, there's no download manager, and I greatly dislike how IE limits you to 2 downloads at a time.

[scumdogmillionaire]

The Vista UI you see in this concept screenshot would make me a happy camper. I think it just needs some changes in the colors department.

Sadly, there's no download manager, and I greatly dislike how IE limits you to 2 downloads at a time.

registry value can change that :)

also, download managers i think are kind of out-dated back from dialup days. i think the only people that like them now are people that were dependent on them years ago. maybe i'm wrong? i dunno. i've never downloaded something with my browser that needed one.

[Roger H. Veteran]

Looks nice to me. I much like it. I was imaging running it instead of this IE6 and figured it would be pretty sweet :-D

[Andareed]

I use FlashGet for large downloads because it can segment and thus make downloads faster on slow servers. Also, resume of 2 GB file is nice, and I don't have to worry about copying after file is cached in the browser.

[MacOSXMan]

I won't be using this browser, even when it goes final :rolleyes: looks pathetic...

[viciv]

will it be available this month?

[Hurmoth]

will it be available this month?

I think it will come out with Beta 2 of Vista, sometime next month.

[freedom77]

aa come on dosn't looked thaaaaat bad, IMO looks more fun than ie6, iam sure many people could design a much better one, but it could be alot worse.

looks pretty real, have to wait to find out i geuss.

[Tokar]

looks like somebody (*cough* microsoft) is stealing from AOL...

AOL Explorer first featured that "Mosaic" feature which shows mini-previews of all the open tabs...except AOL does it better :) :) :)

[Jeremy1]

I really hope this is a fake screenshot. If it's not, I'm very disappointed to see that Microsoft has taken a huge step backwards on the UI. It looks horrible!

[NewsGuy-David]

looks like somebody (*cough* microsoft) is stealing from AOL...

AOL Explorer first featured that "Mosaic" feature which shows mini-previews of all the open tabs...except AOL does it better :) :) :)

You do know that AOL Explorer modified version of Internet Exploer 7 don't you? it's going to be the exact same. If you go into AOL Explorer and go into "About" you will see what I mean :D

btw, That article was taken right from JCXP.

[Cyranthus]

it looks better than beta 1, but still needs some work...

i anticipated tab thumbnail view, but other than that... it doesnt look very exciting.

[Slimy]

That concept of IE is basicly just a copy of FF - down to nearly ever detail.

That is exactly what an ff fanboy would say :no:

[Brandon Live Veteran]

Sadly, there's no download manager, and I greatly dislike how IE limits you to 2 downloads at a time.

Err... it doesn't.

By default IE (Windows?) limits you to 2 connections to any given HTTP server. You can download from as many sites as you want though, or as many files via FTP as you want.

I'm 95% sure that it's part of the HTTP spec, and not an IE limitation.

[ZonoBurk]

You do know that AOL Explorer modified version of Internet Exploer 7 don't you? it's going to be the exact same. If you go into AOL Explorer and go into "About" you will see what I mean :D

btw, That article was taken right from JCXP.

My understanding is that AOL Explorer uses whatever IE version you have installed (6.0 or 7.0).

I went to about and all I see is:

[IceDogg]

I've seen lots of sites/people saying it looks like Firefox. Well, to me it looks more like Opera, at least as far as the tabs go. I'm a big fan of Firefox, but it just doesn't look like Firefox to me. IMHO

[XIII]

Looks good, can't wait to use it.

[Louis]

Looks like Maxthon, hope thay dont add any more bold ugly buttons.

[+virtorio MVC]

That concept of IE is basicly just a copy of FF - down to nearly ever detail

(stewie voice)Are you serious? Is he serious?

[IceBrewedBeer]

It could look worse....If it works better then the previous i'm all for it. I like beta 1 hasen't given me any problem whatsoever.