Test Internet Explorer 7

Before I go to sleep today i will install Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3. Reason for installing it is that nobody can’t say… “You’re making fun of it, but you didn’t even tested it.” I am dissapointed on beginning. Beta version is not in my mother language which is Slovenian. There are few others too. The second thing i was dissapointed at is microsoft’s page which wants Geniune Validation before I can do the IE7 Beta3 download. Great this means I will go to sleep few minutes later

muBlinder sucesfully overriden microsoft Genuine. Or I am really Genuine Validated? Who knows? and … who cares .exe of the download file is about ~12MB. Download is slow, like microsoft’s pages all the time.

Installation is very tipical. At the beginning everything is unpacked and it looks like installing SP2, or a language pack, than you must accept license file. At the next step there isGenuine Validation AGAIN. At the full version will validation be everytime I’ll boot IE? Bad… After validating again installer asks us to confirm update. Yes it’s Microsoft Windows so it relly must be done. It’s interesting that every Windows version (SP1, SP2, MC, HOME) has his own variant of IE7 beta3. And Windows are compatible? After long long time updating Windows says I must restart Windows to accept new core files. When did I requested full sistem update? I had to restart PC to finish the setup.

After you reboot and run IE you can enable simple phising protection and you can contribute and help to M$. After first run I see tabs. That’s + They open’s as in Firefox. (Alt+t) Ufcorse first page opened with it was www.konzola.net and my blog at www.konzola.net/mitja where I see that fonts are messed up. Changed size or just other font? Huh I have enought for today. We’ll check this tomorrow.

Now i go to fell a sleep. Good night world!

Internet Explorer 7 - day 1

I’m home again. And ufcorse I’m using IE 7 for the whole evening. I must confess. I like it. I really like it.

1. I like the whole interface. There are not a lot of menus, which like FF takes a lot of space. You have only the important ones. Here I give the point for IE.
2. Tabs are great. They are bigger than in FF, and graphically more complex. I like the way to close tabs, which have x on every tab, when the tab is active. Bon Echo has similar sistem, but I like this one more. You can open new tabs by clicking on the empty one. In the tab line you can see so called Quick tabs, which shows all opened tabs whith screenshots of pages. Another point for IE.
3. Weird fonts. After installation I noticed that fonts are too big, and they looks like they are not the original one. I didn’t find a way to fix that. This point goes to FF.
4. Zoom. IE7 has the greatest zoom efect I ever seen in any browser. We can zoom/zoom out with pressing s ctrl+/- or with menu which is at the right corner in the status bar. Firefox don’t have zoom effect. There is weird “zoom” effect, but it only creates fonts bigger. We cant say that this is really a zoom effect. FF has plugins, but none of them cant zoom the whole page (pictures, fonts, etc.) that page looks weird - tables broke and page is looking really lame. Point for IE.
5. No plugins. Point for FF.
6. Built-in anti-phising and pop-up blocker. I tested both and it looks to be fully functional and reliable. You have plugins in Firefox which have this protection, but settings are better and as my opinion FF protection against phising and popups is better. I give point to both - FF & IE7
7. Beta version dont have Slovenian language. Point for FF.

To sum up, microsoft has done great job. I’m very impressed by the browser. As i wrote the only mistake for now which I can’t accept are fonts. Pages looks lame with it. If this can’t be fixed, I’ll stick to FF.

Both competitors got 4 point. After first day of use IE7… It’s very great so I think really all users schould test it, even if they are FF, Safari, Konqueror, or any other browser user.

Internet Explorer 7 - day 2

And second day of use of IE7 is ended. I am still impressed with IE7, but i think i wont be long animore. Things I liked yesterday betraied me.

If i start with tabs.. They are very anoying if you have opened about 10 tabs. You hardly find what you want. Good, here is Quick Tabs, but it still takes time to load so not as useful as it looked at the beginning. Now I understand why FF has smaller and simpler tabs. I dont know why, but almost all pages has errors. “Done, but with errors on page (tudi sedaj). Look at the picture.

I still like ZOOM effect and it is only + point which stayed.

I noticed than when i do the refresh (f5) almost all forms loose their data. That’s not very handy if you’re in a hurry. Sometimes I get very high use of sys memory too.

Internet Explorer 7 - day 3

I confess I opened IE7 Beta just once. I use Firefox and i cant take use of it. Internet Explorer is good program, but still it dont reach FF. Sometimes (e.g burning DVD’s) IE7 fills memory and cpu to 100%, that is something i cant accept. Probably i’ll uninstall it somehow. I tell you if and when i do that

Internet Explorer 7 - Day 4

Today is my last day of use of Internet Explorer 7 Beta (IE7). Maybe I will test stable version, but I’m shure I wont use it anymore. I just scanned my PC with ad-aware and it found 24 trojans and hijackers which came in with IE7. So it is very safe, right Mr. Gates?

As i promised i found way to uninstall Internet Explorer 7 Beta (IE7 beta). And uninstall doesent require no skill at all. Just go to Start -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs. Than find Windows Internet Explorer 7. Click uninstall reboot and that’s it.

And ufcorse, than go to install Mozilla Firefox.

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