Here is a link to some 20 screenshots of the new IE 7 browser for those interested.

Personally I generally use Opera, but will doubtless give this new IE one a tryout when it's released.

This post has been edited by HTML_Guru: Oct 25 2005, 03:59 AM

Could that possibly look any more like Firefox?

Yes, if they switch the toolbars to the correct place.
Why did they switch their locations just because of some adware toolbars? I think they should have just looked for a way to fix the problem, not work around it.

Oh, and also: What is that little midget tab next to the Google tab? It's on the top left side of the home button. Is that a bug?

So atlast the tabbed browsing is supported now, thats great. I thing that it would surely give a good competition to FIREFOX now. The sucurity must have improved.
I wont try it until the final version is released (still in beta stage).
If someone has used it then please tell if it is better than FIREFOX and OPERA. Till then I am happy with version 6 . I personally dont feel that IE6 is bad either as everything has both sides (the good and the bad) .

Hahaha.. right said saxsux I so wish that the Firefox group sues them for it If only they could...

Szupie - it wouldn't take much to place the toolbars in the right place - a simple drag & drop should suffice. Also I think that midget tab is a placeholder for any new tab that you might open. Some sort of a BLANK tab with no page title.

IE7 still doesn't have ad-blocking then. Still one thing to pull users to firefox aswell as the ways which you can speed the browser up. Lol, I wonder how long it will be before a security hole is found in ie7 final

szupie, I think that poorly-designed button is a new tab button

a friend of mine is taking a networking class in the city....the class gives him a free msdn account and he has access to all the software the school has....one of which is the vista beta 1 he just downloaded it a couple days ago and burned it to a dvd. i installed it on my p4 2.8ghz and it ran supprisingly great....but the point is that it came with ie 7 beta....when installing it says loading file ie7beta..... that spured my interest....i am not, however, exactly sure that it is actually ie 7 because it doesnt seem to me that they would put it in vista...but w/e...maybe they did and maybe they didnt...

does anyone else know this ?

ebbinger_413: They (the microsoft people) said they were going to include IE 7 in the Vista, so I think that having IE 7 in your vista beta wouldn't be impossible. You could tell IE 7 from any other versions easily though, since it has the tabs function.

microscopic^earthling: No, I meant the toolbars were in the wrong place vertically. See how the File, Edit, View, ... menu isn't at the top? I don't think you can change that in IE 7. But I don't know, I don't have an account to download it.


And about that midget tab thing... I don't think that would be a blank page, since it's so tiny and unlike a tab. And I don't think that is a button either, since it's so... empty and "undesigned". If one of you is right, and that is a blank tab/a new tab button, then the Microsoft designers suck.

LOL, I think they're trina make it look as different from firefox as possible.

I have a question to anyone who has a copy of ie7 and that is, does than funny pink window occur everytime you load GooGle.com or other search engines? It looks like something that is built into the ie7 not google source code because the pink window goes into the scrollbar and the "links bar".

I think you CAN - remember IE6 ?? Apparently you coundn't move the toolbars there either - but if you right-click on the toolbar, in the context menu, you'd come upon an option titled Lock the Toolbars. If you unchecked this, you can drag and drop the toolbars anywhere you like and then lock them again to fix them permanently.

I don't think they'll take this feature off in IE7 - coz these toolbars aren't really the old toolbars. Rather they're what is known as CoolBars - a development component you'd come across quite frequently, if you use Visual Studio. Coolbar's are the old toolbar replacements with Drag & Drop capability and FLAT-style icons. That's what makes them so cool I don't think MS would go back to the old fixed toolbars and give up on the drag & drop functionality of the coolbars... after all this allows you to place your bars anywhere on the screen you like - and MS is rather well-known for incorporating such flashy gizmos in their softwares (rather than working on the "better functionality" part)

So there..