IE - 7 Beta 2 - DOES IT WORK?????

[Ianab]

My theory on software beta versions... You can allways tell the pioneers, they are the ones with the arrows in their backs :eek:

If you want to try out Beta stuff on a test machine and see how it works, great. But I'm not going to be a crash test dummy on my main or work PC.

I expect I'll 'upgrade' to IE7 some time AFTER the SP1 version is released, at least that way most of the bugs will be fixed

Cheers

Ian

[duckman]

If you want the very latest :eek: download IE 7 Beta 3, but before you do it might pay to read this.

Forewarned is forearmed.

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/06/29/650033.aspx

Cheers,

[Gra]

I went to Microsoft.com & they have IE7 beta3 - interestingly enough they direct you to turn off your anti-virus & firewal programs before installing & then insist you be on line to download 'updates' - (when you have the latest version from them???:confused: :confused: ) - if you aren't online or have AV & firewall on it falls over half way thru' installing.

I'm betting there aren't too many folks out there who are willing to go online with no AV or firewall - one magazine reported it takes about 30 seconds for 'someone' to start loading malware of some sort onto your system if you don't have a firewall & AV running.

I use both IE & Firefox - IE handles sites that update regularly & include the date as part of the URL MUCH better than Firefox, while Firefox handles sites such as these forums MUCH better than IE. "Horses for Courses". And I have great trouble getting Firefox to download its own updates for some reason - it keeps reporting updates but then refuses to find them:confused: :confused:

You can get a firefox extension to open pages in an IE tab. I have issues with some pages for work wont work in FF, but I right click on the tab and select "switch rendering engine" and works. Saves having multiple windows open..