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April 25, 2006
Internet Explorer 7
Microsoft Corp. is releasing a new test version of Internet Explorer, the market-leading Web browser that is facing competition from smaller players.
Personally, I haven't used it in two years, except to access the MS update site. I just like Firefox a hell of a lot more. It is, of course, beta, and use at your own risk.
The new beta, available Tuesday for free download to English-languages customers, includes fixes for problems that were causing Internet Explorer 7 to stop working, said Dean Hachamovitch, general manager in charge of Internet Explorer development.
Which sounds vaguely promising. New. Improved. We fixed all the bits that stopped it working. We think.
Testing it out now.
Update:
Well, that wasn't good. Aside from crashing four times in an hour, the interface is horrible. The address bar is locked at the top of the page. The home button moved way over to the left of screen with almost all other menu items huddled on the right (this is especially bad on a wide screen, along with a new, graphical replacement for the File-Edit-Tools menu). It still isn't CSS standards compliant. It doesn't handle PNG or JPEG2000 images.
Update:
Page up and down work only intermittantly to scroll the page. Five "Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close" so far today. It has also refused to load any sites until closed and restarted six times.
Back to Firefox.
Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at April 25, 2006 02:31 PM
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