IE7 Final released

[Hannu]

I have automatic updates enabled, but there has been no sign of IE7, allthough finnish version of IE7 was released yesterday. Guess I'll keep on waiting...

Ahem  Validation check says that my copy of Windows is not genuine. Does this mean that Microsoft does not offer software updates (IE7 for example) for pirated windows users? Guess there is no way I can install IE7 on my computer I have not installed Windows xp on my computer. My brother installed it few years ago. Damn.

[drhayden1]

this might help hannu......i posted it in the update topic
finnish version is the second link below
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/worldwide/default.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/finland/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx

[FreewheelinFrank]

I took the plunge and tried the McAfee tool: it seems to have worked. Thanks mastacrash and xistenz!

I even tried surfing with IE7 for a while. There seems to be a bug with new tabs, because even when set to open links in new tabs, the browser opened a new window on two occasions.

And when viewing only one page, the tab bar takes up a lot of space for no reason.

At least it works now, though!

[bob3160]

Don't seem to have that problem see if this helps:



The tab width is fixed. With only one open there is an extra square which if selected, opens a new tab.

[Negeltu]

I use IE7 sometimes, but still mainly use FF.  I have encountered one bug in IE7 on both my systems.  When closing or opening tabs/links with the middle mouse button sometimes the whole browser closes.  A bit annoying because it doesn't ask me if I want to close all tabs so I really don't have a chance to prevent it from happening.

[FreewheelinFrank]

Changed 'When a pop-up is encountered' from 'always open in a new window' to 'Let Internet Explorer decide how pop-ups should open' and that seemed to fix it, thanks Bob!

Now I just need somebody to tell me how to stop Windows Media Player and SpywareBlaster from popping up a dial up connection dialogue when I'm already connected.

[bob3160]

When closing or opening tabs/links with the middle mouse button sometimes the whole browser closes.  A bit annoying because it doesn't ask me if I want to close all tabs so I really don't have a chance to prevent it from happening.

Negeltu,
If in the 'Tabbed Brosing Settings' you checked the 'Warn me when closing multiple tabs', would that help any?

[noadware]

Hi,
 
 IE7 is smooth and clean browser, but I cannot compare it with Mozilla Firefox.

Firefox is much faster, and has ton of great extensions even html composers, flashblockers and so on...

If you cannot install IE7, that is not a huge problm, get Mozilla Firefox.

Karl

[galooma]

 Firefox 2.0 Trumps IE7 In Phish-Fighting
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/11/report_firefox_20_trumps_ie7_i.html
big surprise , that one 

comment taken from blog ;The phishing filter is a nice addition by both of the companies, and it's pointless. Completely utterly pointless.

The people who run phishing sites don't leave them up long enough for them to be identified, added and then distributed to the end user. They move...hourly. And when they move they often have created their site on top of a legitimate site which now will get flagged as a phishing site. Creating those wonderful false positives and blocking access to someone's legitimate site that happend to share the same URL header as the Phish site.

Whitelist? Best idea ever! until someone pirates the URL from the DNS server and points it back to a phsihing site...

You can't win, you come up with a solution, and someone will find an exploit, that's the nature of the game. So how do you make the best browser ever?

You make better internet users.