IE7 beta2 preview

[tedster]

How about that -- beta+2+preview all in one offering! At any rate, Microsoft has released a consumer level beta of IE7.
[microsoft.com...]

Warning -- there's some eye bending Flash and darned little information on that page.

[drhowarddrfine]

IE7 does not work with Juno according to consumer emails received today.

[Xuefer]

i've notice the "send utf-8 query strings", anyone have a url with querystring not urlencoded and BC problem?

[Krapulator]

Anyone had any problems with CSS hovers not working?

[Xuefer]

i found one
my quick search for "g" is [google.com...]
it has to be &ie=UTF-8 now but i wonder how it affect existing urls on the world

[Hester]

You won't have to install the stand alone IE6 if you have it now. You can probably successfully remove the IE7 (update) in the control panel's add/remove as described earlier in this thread. This will make IE6 your browser again.

No, I want to run BOTH at once, for testing purposes.

[Xuefer]

why not install ie7 but make IE6 standalone instead? i can run both this way, but dunno if there's any other problem. but it's still said that u might not able to run ie7 coexisting with ie7.1 if there will be one.

[robzilla]

Robzilla re: uninstall

Either use Add/Remove Programs and make sure that "Show Updates" is checked

This worked - thank you! No more cleartype in Outlook Express and Yahoo Messenger, no more links that do not work. I'm happy!

[Ned_Kelly]

I'm just about to install the b2p on my laptop (no way am I putting it on my dev machine), I've noticed a lot of people complaining about rollback issues.

As for the general operation and rendering if you are noticing problems I strongly suggest you report them, MS can't fix what they don't know about, for example:

Anyone tried to create a new Adwords campaing using IE7? I can't get the part where you add countries to work! I'm trying the lowest security settings and clicking the "add" button still does nothing. ARGH!

I have the same problem as mykel79. You can't select countries in adwords. I guess we'll have to use firefox a little more since it seems from reading these posts that you can't uninstall IE7 very well either.

This is an obvious issue, one that should be reported (even if it has already been reported once), we don't need another broken browser from MS so report issues to make sure they now about them before final release.

If you find CSS bugs you should check out Eric Meyers post to find out what you can do:
[meyerweb.com...]

Any other issues check out:
[blogs.msdn.com...]

Cheers!

[Xuefer]

anyone use gmail chat (not gtalk) with MSIEb2p? i see the connection is lost periodly, followed by a reconnect "and we're back"

[drhowarddrfine]

we don't need another broken browser from MS so report issues to make sure they now about them before final release.

It's already broken. It doesn't support the DOM after 1998. It doesn't support XHTML. It doesn't support enough of CSS2.1. It will not support CSS3. It only fixes seven bugs from 1998 and adds two CSS tags.

[Xuefer]

[msdn.microsoft.com...]

Timeouts were changed in IE7 B2P and a page which takes more than 30 seconds to __render__ will result in a “page cannot be displayed” error page. This is a known issue and we will make a change for the next public release.

so far i can tell from the test of gmail, it's not "render" timeout but a "data recieve timeout", when no data arrives within 30s, it's timed out, whenever 1 byte is recieved, the timer is reset.

anyone know the old timeout before ie7b2p?