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Nice...especially tab ordering!

As with Beta 2, we’ll release German, Finnish, Arabic, and Japanese versions in the next few weeks.
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No Spanish version??

You also added CTRL-A (Select all) to the address bar and search box! ... Love you guys! Thanks :-D

Since about a week ago, I have to click on the favorites icon 3 times, to get the favorites center to open, after I launch the browser.

I uninstalled Beta 2, installed Beta 3, and still have the same problem.

Also, when feeds update, and are bolded in the feeds listing, my feeds icon in the favorites center doesn't display a star.

Both of these problems started happening about a week ago.

Is there some way I can reset something to get this to work again?

Thanks.

I just realized that these problems seem to coincide with when I installed the new version of Windows Live Messenger, 8.0.

WLM 8.0 also crashes frequently with an error referencing ieframe.dll.

FYI

I'm proud to announce that we released the beta 3 release of IE7. We fixed a ton of bugs, incorporated changes based on beta feedback, and continued to improve our security. You can read more about the release on the IE blog and get the new version here.

Great job on the Refresh All, and the favorites center that Does Not Close when I middle click a link, I really appreciate these additions.

Just one more favor, Please set Internet Explorer to automatically decide how to open pop-ups, By Default!!

This is such a useful feature!!

Thanks again.

The speed is wonderful. I hope there are more performance improvements that can be squeezed out, but this is definitely a big step since beta 2!

Okay, I nearly pissed myself when playing with the dragging and dropping of tabs. Nothing like having a feature get added that you didn't even know you couldn't live without! THANK YOU!

"You also added CTRL-A (Select all) to the address bar and search box!"

That alone is cause to cry with joy.

Beta 3 also should make downloads up to 4GB in size much more reliable.  In IE6, downloads over 2GB didn't quite work right.  

Please let me know if you see any problems with downloads in the 2-4GB range.  

Thanks!

This is the first time having bad experience with IE Beta... After installing whenever i open IE, it takes in 100% of CPU, may be due to some add-on, but in no-add on mode works fine. I had disabled all non-microsoft add-ons, but still the same result. So the only way to work is in no-add on mode.!!!!

Ram, disable all of your add-ons (open the Internet Options dialog from control panel, go to the "Programs" tab, and hit the "manage add-ons" dialog) and then slowly re-enable them one by one until you find the culprit.

Thanks!

does not install :( ok beta 2 installed fine for me and worked fine, so i uninstalled beta 2 and tried to install this one but it doesn't not install at all. it says it's installing IE core and such and then it shows a screen that says IE could not install. this makes me a little mad cause how can i test the beta if i can't even install it.

I can't install because of a registry problem with the HKCR\mailto key and HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\mailto being corrupt in the registry. I can't open them, delete them. etc. I get an error when i try. Any suggestions?

@Travis: In the registry, right-click on the keys and ensure that the Administrators group has FULL CONTROL on these keys.

@Raul: The ie7b3.log file in the C:\windows directory likely explains what failed.

I cannot access the key. It gives me an error when i click on it or when i try to delete it. It must be corrupt or something.

DOES NOT INSTALL.  I followed the directions to uninstal Beta 2 (which installed just fine).  This is a 3 week old Dell.  Beta 3 will NOT install.  

The Internet Explore Team announced on their blog the availability of the next beta version of the Internet...

Failed install.  Details from ie7beta3.log:
59.734: Copied file:  C:\WINDOWS\system32\en-US\wininet.dll.mui
59.906: DoInstallation: Installing assemblies with source root path: d:\5cdbbf8b6d7c03e1263aad81de\
59.906: Num Ticks for Copying files : 13969
65.875: DoRegistryUpdates:UpdSpInstallFromInfSection Failed for ProductInstall.GlobalRegistryChanges.Install error: 0x5
65.875: INF_REGISTRY Failed
65.875: DoInstallation:DoRegistryUpdates failed
65.922: Access is denied.
65.922: Internet Explorer 7 installation did not complete.

Select 'OK' to undo the changes that have been made.
65.922: Starting process:  C:\WINDOWS\ie7beta3\spuninst\spuninst.exe /~ -q -z
91.718: Software Update Rollback has completed with return code 0xbc2.  This rollback requires a reboot.
91.718: Internet Explorer 7 installation did not complete.

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 has been partially updated and may not work properly.
91.718: Update.exe extended error code = 0x5

does not install for me as i mentioned, here is my log as to why and i don't get it....

0.563: 2006/06/29 13:00:48.546 (local)
0.563: c:\29402a6b91a429caea1b\update\update.exe (version 6.2.29.0)
0.641: Hotfix started with following command line: /quiet /norestart /er /log:C:\WINDOWS
8.391: IECUSTOM: Scanning for proper registry permissions...
10.313: IECUSTOM: Scanning for proper registry permissions...
10.719: IECUSTOM: Scanning for proper registry permissions...
11.094: IECUSTOM: Unwriteable key HKCR\gopher
11.094: IECUSTOM: Unwriteable key HKCR\gopher
11.094: IECUSTOM: Unwriteable key HKCR\gopher
11.235: IECUSTOM: Unwriteable key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\gopher
11.235: IECUSTOM: Unwriteable key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\gopher
11.235: IECUSTOM: Unwriteable key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\gopher
11.297: IECUSTOM: Backing up registry permissions...
11.297: IECUSTOM: Finished backing up registry permissions...
11.297: IECUSTOM: Setting new registry permissions...
11.297: IECUSTOM: Key is still unwriteable HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\gopher
11.297: IECUSTOM: Finished setting new registry permissions...
11.297: IECUSTOM: An error occured verifying registry permissions. ERROR: 0x80004005
11.297: DoInstallation: CustomizeCall Failed: 0x3f5
11.313: IECUSTOM: Restoring registry permissions...
11.313: IECUSTOM: Finished restoring registry permissions...
11.328: The configuration registry key could not be written.
11.328: Internet Explorer 7 installation did not complete.
11.328: Update.exe extended error code = 0x3f5

The new RSS feature: IE7 now allows you to update all your RSS feeds on-demand as well as mark them all “READ”.

I don't see those options, where might they be?

Thanks.

O Beta 3 da próxima versão do Internet Explorer foi liberado para download. Essa parece ser a última...

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I've installed but it didn't work here. When I click on the IE logo the screen blinks and nothing happens... :(

I'm using IE 6 again.

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For all those who get failed installs with no registry problems, I had that problem too until I disabled my antivirus, spysweeper and unchecked downloading updates. I had to do the same for beta 2.

Somehow works for me.

I like how (some) buttons show destination URLs when hovered over.  Add it to the focus (TAB) event too.

Marcelo - I bet you've got a plug-in that doesn't play nicely with IE7. You should have run IE7 in no add-ons mode (available from start.all programs.accessories.system tools) and verified that IE7 runs when no plugins (like toolbars) are running. Then you could have used manage add-ons to disable the plug-ins one by one until you found the culprit that was causing IE7 to fail to load. Then you could have looked for an update to that plug-in. Just sayin'.

BUG:  Right-click on a saved Web page or archive, the default option shows as "opennew" instead of "Open" or "Open in New Window".

(Submitted to Microsoft Connect also.)

So I guess this means, that although August 2006 was slated as the Beta 3 date, there was a descision to give up on making all the needed fixes.

Guess that's why there has been no responses on the IE7 Feedback site, because, well, none of the feedback is actually going to be used.

There's an excelent post on PPK about the massive amounts of broken JavaScript, DOM, and CSS in IE7 Beta2... its not like you guys haven't known that there has been serious omitions thus far in the fixing of IE6, and now IE7.

So, I guess we have to wait till IE8 now... and since IE7 final is slated for 2007, that would make IE8 at least 2008.

So, again we all ask, come IE8, in 2008+... are we going to see support for DOM Methods like setAttribute()*, addEventListener(), and prototyping on the DOMElements*????

* = uhm, yeah, we are talking full support, not partial, including Namespaces, and it has to work on all elements, not some... not with non-standards attributes like 'accessKey' etc.

Severely disapointed.

Are we allowed to use IE7 Beta 3 in a live production network? I cannot wait until the Release Candidate.

Runs fantastic and super fast!
Great job, guys!

Love the new look of third-party toolbars (borders etc.)

Roland
(Regular IE chat participant)

My only two gripes are:

https://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/viewfeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=65110&siteid=136 hasn't been fixed yet.

And I recall reading on the Connect site when people were suggesting to re-order tabs that it this feature would be implemented in future releases of IE, i.e. IE8 and not 7.

If this is the case, is there any possible way to include the feature to middle click on a folder within the Links toolbar and have them open in a group of tabs?  This is the ONLY thing missing and I have seen this requested quite a few times on the Connect site.  Please?

@Raul: Run Regedit.  Right-click HKCR\gopher, and change permissions to give Administrators Full Control.  Setup should be successful.

@GameKid: I believe this is already fixed in the latest builds.  Thanks!

@Steve: No one from Microsoft ever said that August was the Beta-3 date.  

We're looking very closely at Connect feedback.  There are some internal snafus around ensuring that the public bugs get updated with our comments, but rest assured that every bug gets looked at.  We've taken a large number of changes from CONNECT.

We will be looking at the JScript changes you're asking for in a future release.

Thanks!

I didn't think it would ever happen, but... IE7b3 made me switch back from Firefox. It's fast, stable, and not as much a resource hog as Firefox is.

Good work, MS!

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Microsoft today released Beta 3 of Internet Explorer 7. The main changes are around the user interface,...

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Is it possible to have an option to promote a tab to a new window... or "open tab in a new window"?  Sometimes I have multiple pages open in different tabs and I'd just rather have them in separate windows so I could float them next to each other.

hi

I see that the IE Team at Microsoft have released Beta 3 of Internet Explorer 7 to the general public.I...

Here is a screenshot of the forthcoming FreeTextBox4. We'll have a preview release next week.


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@Scott, simply hit CTRL+N or File | New Window to open the current tab in a new window.

I have a request for a feature in the RC versions: mouse gestures! I'm so used to have them in Opera and Firefox that I click right mouse button and move left to get back even in IE... I takes me a second to realize it isn't supported on the Microsoft browser! What a pity!
I've found a free plug-in, but why not build it inside IE? It shouldn't be complicated at all!

@Eric,

The "opennew" bug happens on my system with Beta 3 installed as well, so I don't think it's fixed.

@Upanisad: The IE team first concentrates on features that only the product team can uniquely provide (e.g. great tabs that integrate into all scenarios) or are super-commonly requested or used (e.g. the search box).  

Mouse gestures (I love them, btw) are not a commonly used/requested feature and it's possible to build awesome plugins that support gestures (e.g. the project on codeproject.com).  Thus, in cases like this, we are more likely to work on enhancing support for plugins in general, rather than building specific ones that only a small subset of users are likely to use.

@Jace: The fix is in the RC1 builds that are not public.

Disk Cleanup borked by Beta 3.

XP's Disk Cleanup tool is messed up after installing Beta 3.

Instead of showing "Downloaded Program Files" at the top of the list, it shows:

"@C:\Windows\System32\occache.dll,-..."

The button on the lower right is also messed up, it says:

"WS\system32\occ"

When I uninstall IE 7 Beta 3, it goes back to normal.

@Eric,

Thanks for clarifying :-)

 Not sure when it happened, but I have become completely dependent on IE7. As I mentioned early today,...

> We will be looking at the JScript changes you're asking for in a future release.

No JScript, please. He was asking for JavaScript. :)

@Eric

Is there anyway you'd be able to address my previous comment?  It's regarding a bug that was reported in connect and then closed due to it being fixed yet it is still not fixed in IE7 Beta 3.

Also I do believe that the feature request of being able to open up a group of tabs from a folder on the Links toolbar has been requested quite frequently.

Thank you Eric!

Having same issue that I had with beta 2 (public), but not beta 2 (preview) - as soon as it tries to open multiple tabs, it crashes.  Internet Options in Control Panel allowed me to set it to open only one tab.  It still crashes (which didn't happen in beta 2 public).  So, now it's completely unusable.  
Here is the crash information:

AppName: iexplore.exe
AppVer: 7.0.5450.4
AppStamp: 449be0cd

ModName: mshtml.dll
ModVer: 7.0.5450.4
ModStamp: 449c16c7

fDebug: 0
Offset: 000f1f0f

Not sure if this would be helpful to anyone or not, but would really like to give this a shot.

@Nocturnal - I responded in the comments to my post as well, but thought I'd repeat here.  The entry that Filiz made was in error - we haven't fixed this yet internally, but we do know of the bug.  You can reorder favourites in the links toolbar if you go into the "links" folder in the favourites center and do it there.  It's unfortunately unlikely that we will fix the bug of being able to manipulate them directly from the links bar for IE7.

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I like Microsoft Soft weaire

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@ Matty

The new RSS improvements are detailed over at the RSS team blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archive/2006/06/29/650907.aspx

@Max

Here is what I am talking about:

http://www.randomfix.com/images/fcenter.jpg - this is where you said to make the changes.

http://www.randomfix.com/images/links.jpg - this is where the changes should have taken place but it does not matter where I try to reorder the links, it doesn't affect the Link's toolbar sub-folders.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Waisted about 6 hours today thanks to this beta not installing.  Never had a problem with a piece of Microsoft software before this.  I'm finally back to IE6 because I could not even do a restore point back to IE7, Beta 2 because all text in any of the menu items was missing.  For now I'll use IE6 and FireFox until IE7 SP1 is out.

IE7 ベータ３

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Good work guys, just one question for now: I just upgraded from IE6 and was wondering if it's okay to install the Developer Toolbar refresh from March, or if we need to wait for a new version that targets Beta 3. Thanks!

I'd really like to see IE7 set focus on the address bar after opening a net tab. It's a UI behaviour users have picked up with other browsers and since you've kept the key shortcuts and many other feature, it'd be nice to add this little candy.

Not sure if this has been suggested in the past, but if so, I do apologize. :)

ops.. by "net", I mean a "new tab". Sorry.

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andr3: The behavior that you describe is what I get after installing Beta 3. Whether I hit CTRL-T or click on the New Tab button, when it opens up a new tab, the focus is on the address bar with "about:Tabs" highlighted and waiting to be typed over.

What behavior are you getting?

I had the same problem as KerryF. To install, I had to enter Safe Mode with networking and install from there - although, when rebooting normally, half of the stuff that was supposed to start up, didn't - including my firewall and WLAN utility - so I had to reboot once more after that.

However, it does works as it should after this long task.

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Hmmm .... so you can't combine tabs into one screen and scroll them both side by side? That would be quite an interesting feature, actually. Right-clicking my tab and seeing a "Combine With ..." button for the various other tabs I have open. Don't know if it would work well for more than two tabs, but I think it would work nice for two. Then people wouldn't have to worry about opening up a new window all the time.

*shrug* Just a thought ....

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For the record, I get te same log entries as KerryF above.  XP home admin account with every other program turned off.  The troubleshooting guide is no help.  The end of the log file is:

200.281: Copied file:  C:\WINDOWS\system32\en-US\urlmon.dll.mui
200.328: Copied file:  C:\WINDOWS\system32\en-US\webcheck.dll.mui
200.375: Copied file:  C:\WINDOWS\system32\en-US\WinFXDocObj.exe.mui
200.406: Copied file:  C:\WINDOWS\system32\en-US\wininet.dll.mui
200.594: DoInstallation: Installing assemblies with source root path: e:\18cca5205a8250aea6\
200.594: Num Ticks for Copying files : 43813
206.297: DoRegistryUpdates:UpdSpInstallFromInfSection Failed for ProductInstall.GlobalRegistryChanges.Install error: 0x5
206.297: INF_REGISTRY Failed
206.297: DoInstallation:DoRegistryUpdates failed
206.485: Access is denied.
206.485: Internet Explorer 7 installation did not complete.

Select 'OK' to undo the changes that have been made.
206.485: Starting process:  C:\WINDOWS\ie7beta3\spuninst\spuninst.exe /~ -q -z
265.344: Software Update Rollback has completed with return code 0xbc2.  This rollback requires a reboot.
265.344: Internet Explorer 7 installation did not complete.

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 has been partially updated and may not work properly.
265.344: Update.exe extended error code = 0x5

@rodtempleton: Crash on new tab is typically caused by an outdated version of Google Desktop Search.

@andr3: Opening a new tab should put focus in the address bar by default.  Are you seeing something different?

@S.K.: This is an interesting suggestion that comes up from time to time.  We call it "Tab pinning" but we won't get to it for IE7, I'm afraid.

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Ha!  Guess this proves all those "August" people wrong!  Great job, IE team!

Looks great. Even seems fast under vmware! The solid line makes me accept the menu bar where it is now.  Nearly all my reported issues are resolved too. wtg.

Good work, guys! One of my new developers mentioned to me today that he'd just installed the IE7 Beta and was quite happy.

i wanna select tabs when the mouse is moved onto them:D

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IE7 Beta 3 does not work here.  Instructions that MS-MVP gave me at microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general have been fruitless.  I was just fine upgrading IE through IE7 Beta 2.  IE7 Beta 3 has me stumped.

Having told everyone that Beta 3 is available for download, I was a little short on details.
The IE...

Does Control-L finally set the focus to the URL entry field (like all the other browsers on this planet) instead of opening a total useless window ?

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I don't think mouse gestures should be in IE I think they should be in Vista as a whole.

Personally I use "Stroke it" which works system wide and is pretty responsive and very powerful.

in some forums containing the photos, I can ONLY view half of a photo instead of the whole one.

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@Jens C.: Control L brings up the "Open" dialog, as it has done for ~10 years.  

Alt+D sets focus to the address bar, as it always has, and as it does in SeaMonkey, Firefox, etc.

Alt+D not on my system  (DE-XP)  ?!

CONTROL-L ... Well yeah it brings up the "Open" dialog which is imho totally useless (*hint*hint* CONTROL-O does the same?)

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ALT-D & CONTROL-L works in Firefox & friends.

min/max-width/height is finally working with images. Superb.
As promised by Markus, a float bug is fixed, too. But there still is a problem with my :hover menu, as you can see here when moving the mouse: http://design-noir.de/webdev/

hi...

in address bar, after i type IDN and Ctrl+enter Key do not work properly...

ascii domains work fine... but Internationalized domain names only has such bug that was not last beta2.

Over at Microsoft’s IEBlog, General Manager Dean Hachamovitch yesterday announced the availability of Internet Explorer Beta 3:
This morning we released IE7 Beta 3 for Windows XP. This version includes improvements in reliability, compatibility,..

please make it customisable with background colors and pictures

@EricLaw [MSFT]

Ok, we keep hearing that you are listening, and that the bugs are being viewed, but to date, most (90%) of the bugs I have submitted, have been untouched.

Some have been there for over 9 weeks.
Let me repeat that, cause this is why we are complaining.

My bugs have not been addressed, validated, or even looked at in some cases, for OVER TWO WHOLE MONTHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They were not fixed in IE7 Beta 3, and since this is the "last" beta, before the final public release, I don't expect them to get done before IE7 is out.

From all the posts we've seen on this blog, there has only been some minor CSS fixes.

Over 5 years, and that's the extent of the bug fixes.

Yes, I am (INSERT EXTREMELY FRUSTRATED WORDS HERE)!!!!!

We're glad you tightened up security, we are glad you finally have tabs (even though they are implemented in the strangest way imaginable), and that XMLHTTPRequest is now native, but otherwise... nada?

Not a single fix for all the broken DOM issues...
Methods, Properties, Support, etc.

NOT A SINGLE FIX!!!!

"We hear you", "we know you want IE to adhere better to the Web Standards", "We want freedom to inovate"...

Sorry folks, you had over 5 years to inovate... 5 years to make a browser that supports the DOM.  5 years to include a JS Debugger.  5 years to support PNG! (trolls go home, gamma is still messed up), 5 Years to have a proper public bug reporting system (trolls go home, you can't see what target a feature is assigned to, and your bugs don't get updated, you can't search by date, you can't view attachments, you can't see more than 25 bugs on a page, you can't track by RSS, you can't get email updates on watches, etc.), 5 years to fix IE's <CAPCASE TAGS WITH INVALID=ATTRIBUTES> bugs, 5 years to fix the <button> tag, 5 years to fix the <select> tag (trolls go home, there were bugs beyond the z-order), 5 years to fix the new window spawning a clone bug, 5 years to fix the button rendering bug, 5 years to fix the JS favorite length bug, 5 years to fix the browser dimensions returned in JS to properly account for toolbar height, 5 years to fix the prompt dialog, 5 years to fix the printing bugs, 5 years to fix the selecting behaviour in the address bar, 5 years to fix favorites management, 5 years to provide a better view source tool (don't give us that, we don't know which tool to use stuff... just render it to a new window, with syntax highlighting, its childs play), 5 years to fix the CSS image popularity theft bug, 5 years to fix the frame reloading cursor bug, 5 years to fix the <textarea> rendering bug (scrollbars showing when not needed)...

TIRED OF WAITING!

@rodtempleton: Crash on new tab is typically caused by an outdated version of Google Desktop Search.

Eric: This worked.  Updated to latest Google Desktop and problem is gone.  Many thanks.

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The icons on the left hand side of the tabs are displaying incorrectly for me, ie when I'm on the BBC homepage it's showing the icon for another website.

The only other gripe that I've found since installing beta 3 is the tendency of the Links toolbar to automatically hide itself.  I check under View -> Toolbars, and it is still enabled, but completely hidden.  Turning it off and then re-enabling it, puts it on the extreme right where I can drag it over again.  The toolbar is locked, but I'm at a loss as to why this might be happening.

From the IE blog, IE7 Beta 3 has been released.&amp;nbsp;
I popped it on my machine last night.&amp;nbsp; So...

Christopher Vaughan [MSFT] - "
Marcelo - I bet you've got a plug-in that doesn't play nicely with IE7."

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Christopher I had the same problem as Marcelo... (and I have seen 3 or 4 posts from others with smae issue) I tried your suggestion and it did not help.  

What happens is when I launch the browser it appears for a fraction of a second and then closes.  I had to revert back to IE6.  I tried the upgrade twice with the same result.

I was using IE7 Beta 2 for months without any issues...

Help Me Please

Steve, do you feel better now?  

Everyone who reads this blog knows that the "new" IE team has only existed for about a year and half or so.  IE7 is a huge leap forward, and yet you give them no credit.

It's been noted in comments that they're having some delays in writing back to some of the bugs in Connect even though they're reading them... but if your bugs are as worthless as I suspect from your rant, I wouldn't be surprised if no one bothers to write back to you.  Why don't you post the URLs to your bugs so others can validate them?

Good job guys!
One annoying thing that's IE7 only is that I used to use Alt + D to get to the address bar then TAB it to the search field in IE 6 and still do in FireFox. Now in IE7, I need to tab twice because the Refresh and Stop button is in the way. I have no idea who else out there use this feature (Alt + D), but to me it is invaluable.
A couple of post talked about their liking of the CTRL + A selecting entire address bar feature, I think this can readily be done with Alt + D regardless where the focus (where the mouse last left clicked) is.

Again, good job guys!

@Nik: Our accessibility folks had us put the buttons into the tab order to make IE easier to use for keyboard-only users.  However, there's a great workaround: Use CTRL+E to jump directly to the search box.

From what I see, I like the new improvements, but I think that they've at least added some new problems.

I like the new Office 2006 style buttons, but they seem out of place with the rest of the buttons using the old style.  I can understand that the back, forward and favorites buttons should stand out, but the menu buttons and command bar buttons just look terrible when they're set up differently from the go/reload, stop and search buttons.

I don't like the command bar personally.  I can't turn it off as an option, and if I try to remove all the buttons from the command bar, it simply repopulates it with a default set the next time I open IE7.  So instead, I've got it set up with one button, that I rarely use.  Incidentally, that one button is the encoding button, and unfortunatly, nine times out of ten, the encoding button doesn't work.  Most of the time when I attempt to use the encoding button to change the encoding for a web page it doesn't bother to change it.  It appears as though it only wants to change to a select set for a given web page.  Perhaps the encodings it finds most likely to be correct, though I am usually using it because IE couldn't find the correct encoding in the first place.  I may be wrong, but my expectations with the encoding button is that it should work like the View>Encoding menu.  They look the same to me, so I would expect similar functionality.

Given the choice, I would probably prefer to simply turn off the command bar and save the space for more tabs, but the encoding button does have it's uses some days.

Also, I suspect I have some bad registry setting somewhere, as the toolbar background seems to be set for something resembling transparent, and black for most of the tab bar.  But it would be nice if something would fix that when I install IE7.  I'm assuming it's rather localized, since my friend, with a new XP install, doesn't have this problem.

The tabs setup still seems to feature the same odd method of opening new tabs.  If I open a handful of tabs from a page, the first one opens to the right of the base page, then the second one to the right of that.  But if I go off and play with one of the new pages, then come back to the first page and open more new tabs, they pop-up right next to the originating page again, instead of continuing at the end of the list of pages opened by the first page.  Perhaps a diagram would better explain this...

Start with a page                     [P1]
Open a new page                       [P1][P2]
Open a second new page                [P1][P2][P3]
Do some stuff
Come back and open another new page   [P1][P4][P2][P3]
Open another new page                 [P1][P4][P5][P2][P3]

I can kind of see that this mechanism makes sense, but I since I can remember that I opened a series of pages from a page, I expect new pages from that page to follow the trend created by the first pages.

Another oddity I've noticed, is that I can set IE7 to force new windows to open in new tabs.  I can also set several search engines to open results in new windows.  In my mind this should force each result I click on to create a new tab.  Instead, I find that IE7 will reuse the tab that was created by the first popup from that domain.  This is exceedingly annoying when it insists on changing a tab in a window that I'm not currently looking at.  It would seem to be more sensible to have all popups get their own tab, as I would expect each new popup to have it's own window if the popup to new tab feature were not enabled.

I wonder about the add-ons management some days as well.  I see a delete button to remove add-ons, but it never seems to be an available option to use.  Also I think it might be nice to enable certain add-ons for one time use, without having to enable the add-on, restart IE7, and disable the add-on when finished.  A good example of this is Flash, the majority of sites I visit, either don't use Flash, or use it as a new way to create popup ads to annoy visitors, so in general I'd like to disable Flash.  However, I occasionally find myself at a site that has a legitimate use for Flash, and it can be a pain to re-enable it to view a single site.  Perhaps a bar similar to the one for file downloads, and ActiveX controls would be applicable to this situation.  If the user has disabled a given add-on, and a site wishes to employ that add-on, the bar could pop-down offering the user a chance to enable to the add-on for that site, or visit only.

Overall, I think that the IE team has done a good job thus far with the betas, though obviously I think that there's more work to be done here.  I think that if the silly authentication picture thing gets fixed then I'll have little reason to fight with the OS incompatibilities of Firefox anymore.  And of course, I'd also like to see more standards compatibility.

@Padraic: When you say "authentication picture", can you elaborate on what you're referring to?  The bug described here: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/06/01/613132.aspx is fixed if that's what you're asking about?

No big deal, but is it just my computer or the Open Folder option from the finished download dialogue fails to perform?

@EricLaw
Yes, that was the one I was referring to.  I'm glad to hear that it has been fixed now.

Do you think it possible to enable in the search bar the CTRL + Backspace function to backspace by word? Now if I do CTRL + Backspace, it gives me a rectangular character. I just this is a very nice function in all other places in Windows.

the highlighting is off when one searches for text on a page that is magnified. Think this can be fixed?

Another thing about the magnifying tool: say I am reading Wikipedia, I care more about the text than the pictures, and I don't really like reading small font, if I enlarge the page by CTRL + + or CTRL + mouse scroll up, IE enlarges the pictures too, which doesn't cause much trouble except the horizontal length of the page is also increased, I had to really scroll horizontally to view the text or I have to compromise by not enlarging the page too much. Any chance that the final product may offer two kinds of page zooming?

Finally, is there a reason why the page zooming using CTRL + mouse wheel has been reversed, i.e., IE6: CTRL + mouse wheel down to enlarge/mouse wheel up to shrink; IE7: the reverse.

WHAT HAPPENED?? I just upgraded IE7 beta-2 to beta-3. It now takes 10-15 seconds to load. I'm going back to IE-6 until this is fixed, or dumping IE entirely.    

Microsoft has released beta 3 of Internet Explorer 7, and you can get it here. As you'd expect from a third beta, it's got a bunch of bug fixes, but there are also some changes to the way it looks....

I HATE IT...HATE IT... HATE IT!  Now "Delete Temporary Internet Files" deletes ALL web site FAVICONS :(
My desktop is a mass of bland-looking squares which I'm forced to read text to find the desired shortcut.  

Does anyone have a list of all the html and css1/2/3 that is NOT by internet explorer 6  and/or 7?

It would make my work as web developer so much more easy.

Martin T

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"Restore Tabs" not Active in Beta 2 & 3?