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IE7 Released and Available for Download
Luis Escalante writes "After over a year and a half, IE7 has been released to the public as of Monday afternoon. Download it directly here. Word hit the streets after several mangers of the IE division posted on the IE blog."
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of course, I would have prefered them to have released it before I bowed to management and hacked around all the non-standard shit in IE6 which IE7 fixes. urg!
How we know is more important than what we know.
I'll use Firefox (and OPera, if a plugin for Stumbleupon is released for it) for the rest of my life. Failing that, I'll use the worldf's most secure broswer: Mosaic 1.0!
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Word hit the streets after several mangers of the IE division posted on the IE blog.
It's official--IE7 is the web browser used by Jesus!
"Yay, finally half of my incoming support calls will vanish without me needing to make a housecall to install Firefox first."
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
So can the WMP-inspired interface be made to go away, and the interface made to look like a real Windows app (with the menu bar, and IE6-style controls etc?)
I think I'll stick to Firefox, thanks.
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
IE6 keeps crashing due to all of the spyware/malware/trojans that installed themselves.
;-)
Agent: Thank you for calling tech support, how can we help you? Customer: I just installed an update to IE and my internet is now broke. Agent: *sigh* You're only the 500th person in the last hour to call, there's not much we can do call M$ since their sad attempt at catching up with the times is too little too late and to boot it wasn't done as best as possible. I suggest you use FireFox instead! Customer: What's FireFox? Agent: You know how girlfriends are better than wives? Customer: Uh... sure. Agent: FireFox is your sexy girlfriend, while IE is your ugly wife. Customer: Thanks for the help!
It is important news because we are the people who will have to help family and friends after they upgrade if things go wrong. Now at least we know that if mom calls tomorrow what it will be about...
(Yes, strictly speaking 5 years is "over a year and a half", but the point remains.)
... when the Linux port will be available? ;)
*ducks*
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Once again, competition wins. Microsoft, after leveraging their monopoly power to win the browser wars, had summarily decided that there was no longer anything else in IE that needed work. IE was effectively frozen for years, bugs and all - cracked open, by stern policy, only for security fixes.
It took a free software effort with no hope of profit to do so, but MS has at long, long last bestirred themselves to code again. This has once again demonstrated the baseline of what MS' monopoly will do. Since it is not economically feasible to confront MS's monopoly powers, the commercial market for product X (browsers, office apps, OSs, etc) is effectively destroyed (sorry Opera), but at a minimum, MS is forced to compete against what the community can develop for free.
Never forget - human beings are lazy by design, and so are our organizations. No business, no politician, no religious leader, will exhibit much virtue except under threat. This is why competition and democracy have been largely effective as policy.
Whether MS wins or loses the browser war (or these days, the browser cold war), or the OS war, we have already won, because we have pushed them to innovate, to make their products more stable, more credible, and more powerful.
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Actually, there will be quite a few people downloading it. I upgraded to IE7 beta to test out my pages on that. Now I'll upgrade to the final. Sadly, you still can't ignore IE.
chirp...
www.ie7.com
Is all I have to say as a developer and business owner. Add this into the mix of shit I have to fix.
Plus, watch out, it is reported that it will be a forced update November 1st. So less time than normal to ensure the final version is kosher with your web apps!
Does IE7 not render Slashdot right.
I sometimes get the comments overlapping eachother.
Only reason I have FF loaded is for Slashdot.
It matters for web developers. A LOT. The faster IE6 can be ignored (it won't for years for mass scale sites, but for smaller stuff, web applications, etc it will be able to soon, relatively speaking), the least likely web developers will be to go totally bonker. I do feel for the ones that DO have to support everything from Netscape 4 and up though, it will be a nightmare to support in paralelle with IE6.
How come this is on Slashdot before news about Flash Player 9 for Linux?
Let's see now.. It's the world's most widely used internet browser. It's probably the most commonly used application in the world. It marks the date when Microsoft finally started to worry about Firefox. It is a huge improvement over IE6. Yeah, I guess that makes this news more important, despite the fact that Slashdot is more Linux oriented.
Last but not least, your complaint is ignorant because not only is there no such thing as a race for news, but a lot of people might find the IE vs FF wars more interesting, too. You know, almost 90 percent of the world's users browse with IE, so there's a pretty good chance that at least a few Slashdot users will enjoy this story.
Full Tilt
I completely agree that not having *all* of the CSS support is a bummer. However, it is a minor piece of the puzzle in the grand scheme of things. You can't count on all of your users having an updated browser. You (in general) have to code to the lowest common denominator. Sites are just now starting to drop support NN4, but IE5 is still a big player. So...this is actually a headline for about 3-4 years in the future when people are considering having to accomodate IE7 and its shortcomings, and consequentially considering dropping support. Today, I still sit in backwards compatibility hell...tomorrow doesn't look good either.
When I have a kid, I want to put him in one of those strollers for twins and then run around the mall looking frantic.
Yep. Now we just have to see how quickly IE7 and the rest supplant IE6.
Personally, I'm hoping that anyone who can't install IE7 will instead try out Firefox or Opera. And anyone who can install IE7 will do so quickly, or switch quickly.
Unfortunately there are plenty of people who can't install *anything* because IT locks the machine down, and plenty of people who won't install anything because they're afraid they'll break something.
Still, the sooner IE6 disappears, the easier things will be.
Kernel Krunch - Part of a Complete OS
even if we don't like IE 7 (I use Opera), it is much better than IE 6 and for us who work in a company where some previous systems were tweaked to work on IE better, this new version would certainly be a welcome change. (or a welcome headache, whichever comes first)
There are many web developers here. IE7 will affect them much more than Flash for Linux.
Rather "matter that stuffs", if you ask me.
The Microsoft Way (not to be confused with the street) is to have the poor browser do a whole lot of thing a browser never was meant for, including being a distribution channel for executable libraries, a pretty border around other applications (which in turn can embed IE (which in turn can embed other apps (et cetera))), and a trust inheritance engine that hides the trust chain from the user.
This overloading wasn't exactly what admins meant when they told Microsoft to go stuff it.
Response #1:
Hmmmm....did you try installing Wine-dows Genuine Advantage?
Response #2:
"Please verify that you have proper permissions."
You have to ask Bill G really nicely.
You'll be glad to know it's possible to block the automatic update to IE7.
Flash 9 for Linux is newsworthy, too, but this is a new version of the best Firefox download tool available on Windows!
Fortunately, he's not the only one. IE6 comes standard with Win2k SP, WinXP SP2, and Win2k3 server, so it'll be supported (on those platforms) as long as they are. That means if you're using Windows 2000 SP4, IE6 will be supported until 2010. For WinXP SP2, you'll have to look up the date.
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I find it very telling that the first /. discussion I open in IE7 was totally garbled and required to reloads to get it looking right.
You're probably thinking of this table.
I may be paranoid, but on a new install of Windows, I usually use FTP to get Moz builds. Just in case I mistype the name or something and hit a site with malware.
If IE5.5+ supports "filter: alpha(opacity=50);" why couldn't they be bothered to add "opacity: 0.5;" CSS supoprt to IE7. At least they got the Alpha PNGs working good enough now. Also the still renders with tons of extra padding you can't get rid of, even with padding: 0px; so buttons still show up super large in IE compared to all the other browsers.
Morphing Software
Hmmm, I can't seem to find the Mac version. I guess I'll have to keep using 5.2. I don't see it for HP-UX or Solaris, either. I wonder if this is a mistake, or if those rascals at Microsoft are up to something?
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
'previous systems were tweaked to work on IE better'
this is exactly where most of the problems are going to arise - custom applications / systems that rely on IE quirks that should never have been there in the first place.
from what i've heard, this new IE is going to break most of these custom IE applications - consultants, prepare your RFP's!
Microsoft updates == consultants dream, everyone else's nightmare
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Hmm... Number of people worldwide who use Internet Explorer vs. number of people worldwide who (a) use Linux, (b) want to have Flash animations in their browser, and (c) are OK with installing the proprietary Flash player.
I'd say based on numbers alone, the new IE release qualifies as "stuff that matters."
(P.S. Thanks for the link -- that's great news!)
It's completely telling that the first comment on that page, is a comment by a guy who's worried IE7 is going to trash his computer.
If that's the first reaction people have, firefox has a pretty good chance.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
I... (gulp, I know my karama is going to go to hell for this)... think IE7 is a nice step up. The two things I'm happy to see are transparent PNGs and the font rendering is much nicer. If that was all IE7 provided, then at least we can sit back and say all of our websites just got a facelift. Not exactly a bad thing.
Karma: Neutered
Did anyone notice its Windows Internet Explorer 7 and not Microsoft Internet Explorer 7?
Nope, I did. Immediately denied. Why else would I be whining about it?
Yeah because my grandma is just dying to start all over again and learn Linux.
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Guys, you've gotta try this tabbed browsing! Have you ever seen anything like it before?!?
*wink*
1: Opening Multiple Tabs (more than 20) Crashes
2: UI is TERRIBLE - why???
File / Edit / View menu:
Displays below the address / nav bar, a break from convention from every windows app Ive used in the past. A break from convention is good if its progress, this is just change for change sake, it flat out doesn't work!!!!
Command Menu:
Uses Real Estate that could be used for tabs. I want my home button beside my back and forward buttons. I cant convert to a classic view instead of the half baked attempt at a UI, or change
Navigation (back forward reload etc)
Should be grouped together.
I could go on. The fact is, Microsoft have locked me down with this software to a specific experience regarding its UI. I cant change the size of icons, nor the position of toolbars etc. Why not MS??.
Its a joke, and I havent even started playing with CSS in it yet. I was hoping for MS to listen to the cries of the RC users regarding toolbar management, they obviously didn't "hear us"
I've stayed with the `!important` in CSS and used that javascript hack to display transparent PNG. Other than that, I should be fine.
if you steal from one source, that is plagiarism, if you steal from many, well, that's just research.
Dude, Flash is one of the few things that sucks worse than IE. On any OS it's buggy, poorly designed, and frequently misused. When Flash is cleaned up and opened up enough to be fully intergrated into IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari in the least then it might be worth caring about. The general concept of plug-ins has proven to lead to a sucky web browsing experience even if the average user isn't aware that it's these crappy plug-ins making their browser crash, run slow, give confussing plug-in required messages, and sites that are poorly indexed by search engines, have strange hard to use interfaces, and difficult to use for people with accessibility needs.
Just say no to plug-ins for things like Flash. They can be useful at times but in the vast majority of uses they are only used because programmers are to lazy, stupid, or harried by lazy stupid bosses to use more compatible solutions that do the exact same things.
IE7 isn't that big of news to us geeks but it is a huge relief to us as it goes mainstream - it isn't as good as Firefox, Safari, or Opera but it is worlds better than IE6 and will make it much easier to develop nice websites without having to disable everything cool because it doesn't work in IE. Of course it'll be a few years before the majority of users have updated but at least the process has begun.
If only Microsoft wasn't so lame as to make it difficult for developers to run IE6 and IE7 side by side.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
C:\funpath>ftp ftp.mozilla.org /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/win32/[IN SERT LOCALIZATION HERE, SLASHBOT]
Connected to manna.mozilla.org.
220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1)
User (manna.mozilla.org:(none)): anonymous
331 Please specify the password.
Password: [anonymous@]
230 Login successful.
ftp> cd
250 Directory successfully changed.
ftp> ls
[IMAGINE LIST OF MOST RECENT VERSION HERE, SLASHBOT]
ftp> get "[FULL NAME OF FILE SLASHBOT IS TRYING TO GET]"
200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for [FULL NAME OF FILE SLASHBOT IS TRYING TO GET] ([SIZE OF SLASHBOT'S FILE] bytes).
226 File send OK.
ftp: [SIZE OF SLASHBOT'S FILE] bytes received in [TIME]Seconds [SPEED]Kbytes/sec.
ftp> bye
221 Goodbye.
C:\funpath>.\firefo~1
Welcome to Mozilla Firefox
Still, the sooner IE6 disappears, the easier things will be.
I don't see IE6 going anywhere anytime soon. IE6 is the end of the line for Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP pre-sp2. A lot of people are running those operating systems and aren't going to be changing anytime soon. Heck, even IE5 still seems to be clinging onto 3-5% of the market, despite the fact that it's over 5 years old.
I wonder what is it that she knows about Windows? Does she double-click icons in some other way? Or is it that she can't switch because she is a devoted gamer?
So, if I install it, can I uninstall it without the use of system restore?
I may be more paranoid than you, but I usually use wget to download NcFTP to get Moz builds.
Be forewarned that installing this version of IE7 is nothing like installation of RC1.
The 14 MB download seemed a bit large, but acceptable for MS. But I wish it warned me about the time for intallation.
First, the installer started up and did its normal thing. It downloaded updates--kind of odd for something released today--and tried to install extra software. Then I figured things were about done. In grand MS tradition, it required a computer restart--annoying, but I'm used to it from MS.
Then came the real trouble.
During the restart the IE installed hijacked the entire computer for 10 or 15 minutes. I wish it warned me before the restart that this it was going to coninue installing before I could use the computer--then I would have waited to restart until I had time. For 10 minutes the installer reached into the depths of my computer and sold its soul to Microsoft, and that was all before it installed the "Core Componants" of IE7!
Then it forced a computer restart, and then the computer was finally usable by me again (after another little pieces of work by the installer).
On top of all this, the installer never gives any indication as to how far along in the process you are--so you have no idea that it will be another 15 minutes or more while the installer copies the entire contents of your hard drive onto MS servers. I guess I've been spoiled by Opera--2 painless minutes and it's over. Basically; if you really want IE7, do it when you have time. Get dinner or something while its installing.
Just a warning.
Apparently this is no longer the case (though I havent tried it to confirm) and you can actually run it under wine (with a little bit of work).... http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/news/28
I think the good thing about the whole IE7 scenario is that most news articles (other than the MS funded ones) mention the competition between Firefox and IE. This could potentially lead to new people discovering FF.
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Web dev is an understatment. When I release this beauty upon the tubes, well not sure what is going to happen, but hopefully it will be good.
Actually I'm designing a site from the ground up. Trying to do everything* right. Semantic markup, accesibility, proper source ordering, user customizable/specifiable everything...AND trying to accomodate most all browsers or degrade nicely. Its currently just me, but I've got a few other people that are about to come in and start working on it as well.
I'm doing this on the side, so no I wouldn't be out of a job, just gain a lot of spare time. Actually even if I could guarantee that all of my users would use the same 100% standards compliant browser I'd still have to make some of the same decisions...layouts, color schemes, etc. not to mention just implementing features...
I've mainly been focusing on making sure my markup is *perfect*. CSS can't do everything, but the nice thing is that if done correctly, you can turn CSS off and still be able to use the site. Same goes for javascript. My first version will require no javascript and all future core features will be able to run without it as well. AJAX and all this "Web2.0" hype is going to take a backseat to functionality, they'll be added as needed in future releases. I also like to test the experience from using a PDA. What's nice about this approach is that my "full" version and "mobile" version are the exact same codebase.
To top it all off, it has been developed entirely using...drumroll...vi(m).
Every "web dev" should do what I am doing at least once, so they can understand how sites work and not use their WYSIWYG "tools" as crutches and actually understand (x)HTML, CSS, and javascript. Dreamweaver is killing the web!
When I have a kid, I want to put him in one of those strollers for twins and then run around the mall looking frantic.
I ran into a nasty bug the other day on a site I'm developing at work. The gist of it is that certain tags ([span] and [a href] tags) shift around strangely when zooming in and out. For an example, go to www.flickr.com, search for something that returns several pages, scroll to the bottom where the pagination links are, and zoom out to 90% (CTRL mousewheel). As of the last IE7 release before this one, IE7 zoom renders flickr's pagination links virtually useless. The work around, which only partially works around the problem, is to define a site wide CSS style of "zoom: 1;" for your tags. This is only a partial fix and causes other irregularities on your site when zooming. Seeing how this occurs on the latest release of IE7, I doubt they've since fixed the problem. Way to go IE team!
The real fix is to revert your entire layout into tables and not use divs and spans. I just put "zoom: 1;" in my style sheet then marked it as "WONT FIX" blaming IE7 and the fact that reverting to tables is a dumb idea (especially when only a fraction of users will depend on the zoom tool).
Faith is a willingness to accept something w/o complete proof and to act on it. Reason allows you to correct that faith.
Oh! Ie7! My bad!
Most of IE 7 seems to be functionality already found in Firefox, but I do like the new Quick Tabs feature (Ctrl-Q). This shows a mini version of all the tabs currently open and allows you to select one, in a similar way to Expose on OS X.
No, no no.. It is that grandma doesn't do much of anything but cause problems with her windows allowing me to come over and fix it. I look like a genuis and I am pretty much guarenteed a place in her will.
Fist, I try the trained monkey thing were I just click things and see what happens. If that doesn't work, I try looking for help on the interweb, If that doesn't work I'll post something on a message board or maybe microsoft's help and support mailing list, If still nothing after a day or so, I just reload everything and talk about how tuff it was. I might even throw out some scarry words like virus, spyware and malware. Generaly it isn't any of them but grandma has heard just enough of it on the eveniing news to know it is something to be reconed with.
Now everything works and I'm the hero! You see, If i install linux, I would likley loose the chance of being the hero, possible the spot in her will, and if something actualy did mess up, I would have to call someone who actualy knows something to fix it. So windows is good, linux is bad.
Agreed. Not much manouverability on the toolbars. The Favourites button, which when clicked opens up your faves as a nested scrollbar, ADDS two more clicks for each Fave. The icons look strangely like they were designer by Amine artists. But the tabbed browsing is okay, and the onboard Google is good, even though I've kept my G-bar for the extra options. Hm. Back to Firefox we go.
DO NOT install this in virtual pc under Windows 2003 Enterprise (or possibly XP). On boot the Virtual Machine User Services crash immediately (not sure what this affects) and Internet Explorer will crash immediately on start. Without IE6, I have no way of getting Windows updates...
Especially don't do it if your Windows license is from MSDNAA (academic) because you only get 1 activation which is not renewable. In other words, I'm screwed. (Mac user, just have Windows for testing my web sites in IE, and no I will NEVER pay to get a copy of M$ Windows)
Microsoft uses atdmt webbugs to keep track of the number and location of downloads. atdmt will simply redirect you.
9 DC1-848C-4BF2-8335-86C573AD86D9/IE7-WindowsXP-x86- enu.exe
Ah. Courtesy of elinks, on the server, which bypassess the rubbish-zapping proxy:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/8/8/3888
Download to your heart's content, knowing that you won't affect Microsoft's browser count one bit!
Prediction for end of Universe #42: Fencepost error in Quantum_bogosort.cpp
RC1 froze the rendering engine until release. What's the big deal?
I double-boot Windows and Linux at work. I use mostly Linux (SuSE) and their automatic update feature is quite painless - you only have to reboot on kernel updates, which aren't that common. However, it always pisses me off when I restart to Windows and I have to restart another 10 times to install all patches that came out in the meantime. This is godawful embarassing, no matter the excuse, especially for a 'modern' operating system.
Actually, the change isn't as major as I thought. According to an IEBlog article:
:).
"In addition, users will no longer see the so-called Mixed-Content prompt, which read: This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to see the nonsecure items? IE7 renders only the secure content and offers the user the opportunity to unblock the nonsecure content using the Information Bar. This is an important change because very few users (or web developers) fully understand the security risks of rendering HTTP-delivered content within a HTTPS page."
So basically, if pages previously displayed the Mixed-Content prompt, now they'll act slightly differently. But there's very few serious corporations or online services that display that error message, so I believe the impact on F5's revenues will be minimal. Oh well, I thought I was on to something
my blog
I'll bite...
And yet, Linux continues to be the same impossible-to-use monstrosity it has always been.
My wife and kid do fine with it, thank you very much, and we do a lot more with our computers than most folks I know.
It is truly fascinating how the open source community can stand there like deer in the headlights congratulating themselves on how their most powerful competitor is learning so much from them. Microsoft is now creating open standards, open formats, even open source applications - not one hundred percent of the time, but hey, they're doing it! They're starting to look more and more like us.
You are correct, not 100% of the time. In fact, not even 0.1% of the time. But if they open up at all, that's a good thing. It's not a competition in the traditional sense of snarfing up market. It's a competition to be Free, which is a win-win, always. If they become more Free, good. It's not like Free has to try to be less Free in order to 'compete'.
Hey, wait a minute. Why don't we look more like Microsoft? Where's our readily accessible documentation localised in dozens of languages?
Here.
Where's our toll-free licensing hotline?
Not necessary. We don't compete on their terms! But if you must, this will do...
Where's our reliable and knowledgeable tech support team?
Choose your interface. I like this. BTW, it is very difficult and unwieldy to get MS tech support (human, not website) for the average user. I have never heard anyone say, "Gee, MS tech support is so reliable, knowledgeable, and easy to use!"
Our software assurance subscription that actually sends a disc in the mail when there's an update?
1990 called, they want their software distribution model back!
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
You know what really bugs me? That last one. I used to pay $4.95 a month for a quarterly package of three major Linux distributions. I liked that. So how come now I only get that from Microsoft?
Apples and oranges. MSDN releases are limited. Linux distributions are free to use as you please.
Honestly, people. Why is Microsoft getting so much better, while *we're* really starting to SUCK?
ROTFLMAO!! We continue to get better all the time, certainly at a faster rate than the 'competition'. I would know, I actually -use- Free software, instead of trolling about it.
And on a more pressing note, just look how much closer those headlights are getting! So how many seconds to *SPLAT*?
There is no splat. Free is pretty tough to make go away.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Here's my experience:
:(
1) Install IE7 since it's out of beta - downloads and installs in about 2 minutes.
2) Reboot PC - 1 minute
3) Enable menu bar - 2 minutes trying to get it to move to the top. Nope
4) Try to change search engine to Altavista - 2 minutes - exception thrown just typing a letter in the search menu.
5) Remove IE7 - 2 minutes
6) Reboot - 1 minute
(I guess I might have also added the about 5 minutes svchost ran my cpu to 100% after the first reboot)
How horrible.....
> It marks the date when Microsoft finally started to worry about Firefox.
I keep reading that, but there is no evidence for that. There is more simple explanation, why IE7 is released in 2006, and it is supported by evidence. MS has released a major new version of IE with each new major version of Windows. Vista + IE7. Simple.
We hear reports of huge numbers of corporate machines using a warezed XP key to allow them to install Windows en masse; huger numbers of people in countries in Asia, etc. that can't afford an official copy of XP and so warez it.
How widely will IE7 be installed? I think a relatively large percentage of the Windows userbase will be unable to install it because of the WGA stuff. You might end up with a long term 50/50 split between IE6 and IE7.
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
I don't know about patches, but the first vulnerability has been announced :)
Dude, Flash is one of the few things that sucks worse than IE. On any OS it's buggy, poorly designed, and frequently misused.
I don't think I agree with that analysis. With the arrival of things like YouTube and Google Video, it's starting to be used properly and implemented well. These companies get large numbers of people using their services mainly because they can pretty much assume Flash 7 is installed on the vast majority of browsers and they know they have it available. Would streaming video over the net be anywhere near as popular if they required an MPG-compatible embedded media player? I rather doubt it; we had those before, and they never got as popular.
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
The results (Mem Usage/Peak Mem Usage/VM Size):
IE 7: 153/162/130
Fx 2: 96/113/85
It looks like browser users who don't like memory leaks should start complaining about IE 7. Actually, IE 7 didn't even finish the test; the Flash plug-in crashed before it was done. Otherwise, memory use probably would have climbed even higher.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
You have to validate your copy of Windows. What B.S.! I was about to install it on my test computer here at the office, but since it requires validation before you install it I have the smoking gun I need to push Firefox as the next web browser here at work. Thank you Microsoft. In doing something so wrong, you actually did something right. Cheers!
One day the toilets of the world will rise up... And I'm going to nuke them.
In http://pmt.sourceforge.net/gamma_test/
on a normal PC, the GIF, JPEG, sRGB patches and the unlabeled patches
should match gamma=1/2.2 but they match gamma=1/1.96 instead.
This foils attempts to match images with backgrounds and images in other formats.
The workaround is to remove the gAMA chunk from PNG files while preserving
the sRGB chunk.
I know that this sounds like a troll, and you can mod it that way if you want, but it did really happen.
I already had RC2 installed on it. I downloaded the exe linked from the article and ran it.
It uninstalled the old IE, rebooted, worked on installing for about five minutes, then rebooted.
After that, it would get to the desktop without the menu bar at the bottom and show errors:
lsass.exe
The application failed to initialize properly. (0xc0000005) Click OK to terminate the application.
It had the same error for services.exe, and show them both twice.
After that, it does nothing.
This is just a warning for people. It screwed up mine, I assumed it was screwing up others, too.
It looks like IE 7 doesn't support Windows 2000. That's pretty bizarre especially when you consider that Win2k is still heavily used in companies. (... and me)
To er is human.