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Postby Locke » Fri Mar 24, 2006 5:20 pm

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/default.mspx

Well it seems they took all the good parts of Firefox (Tabs and RSS) and added their "unique" M$ spin on it.

I'm downloading it right now to check it out, though Lifehacker had some problems with it.

Here's to reverse engineers?

Edit: well after restarting it loaded pretty quick (faster than Firefox but thats a whole different story.) One thing that stood out is the total not-IE but kinda Opera/K-Meleon feel to it. Everything is a symbol now...pretty cool.

Another thing, it's fast. Weirdly faster than a fixed up Firefox.
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Postby Arnobius » Fri Mar 24, 2006 6:10 pm

http://www.agnitum.com/news/securityinsight/december2005issue.php

Here's a comparison the company of my software firewall (Outpost) did.

Give it whatever credibility you prefer.
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Postby glitch1501 » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:53 pm

i was pretty impressed with the ie beta, its alot better than what they had, and i even like the ui, but without extensions, i probably wont use it

but it is faster at rendering pages than firefox....but the firefox 2.0 alpha is also available...:)

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Postby Locke » Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:21 pm

glitch1501 wrote:i was pretty impressed with the ie beta, its alot better than what they had, and i even like the ui, but without extensions, i probably wont use it

but it is faster at rendering pages than firefox....but the firefox 2.0 alpha is also available...:)


Really? Care to share the link? ;) A thousand thank yous good sir!
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Postby glitch1501 » Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:53 am

here is the ff2.0 alpha link, usually for dev's though
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0a1.html


here is a ff2.0a vs. ie7 memory comparison
http://oomny.com/2006/03/24/internet-explorer-7-beta2-and-firefox-2-alpha-memory-comparison.html

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Postby Locke » Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:02 pm

Weird, i'm using IE 7 more than Firefox. Mainly because after downloading Bon Echo, it loads up as 1.5 but without any Apps/Extensions.

Anyone had this problem?
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Postby shooraijin » Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:21 pm

I'd be surprised if it loaded them, actually. The version code is probably different than those listed as compatible in the Extensions' information files.
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Postby blkmage » Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:13 pm

At MIX06, they made a CSS Zen Garden layout to show off the CSS improvements they made to IE7. About time, I say.

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/03/23/559409.aspx
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Postby glitch1501 » Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:18 pm

that looks nice :)

yea i am pretty sure extensions wont work with bon echo...

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Postby TurkishMonky » Sun Mar 26, 2006 2:40 pm

extentions make or break a browser according to me.. .so i'll stick with my trusty FF 1.5, and let IE 7 rest peacefully as an extention of firefox (IE Tab!) for getting windows updates, and other microsoft-controlled extention pages...
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Postby Bobtheduck » Sun Mar 26, 2006 4:03 pm

I don't want to change browsers :sniffle:

Who knows... Maybe they'll win me back...

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