Microsoft mirrors the look and feel of other browsers while adding a few unique features.
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Tabs and more tabs
Continuing from beta 1 is the ability to use tabs within Internet Explorer. However, borrowing from what we've seen inside the Windows Vista prereleases, Microsoft has added the ability to visually display all open tabs. Unlike Vista's IE 7, you can't mouse over the open tabs to see previews of each page, something that Firefox and Opera currently allow you to do.
Am a bit confused about this public download and wonder if someone could/would,clarify something for me.If I were to download this product,does it automatically wipe out your present/permanent IE 6.0?.Thank you muchly
IE7 Beta 2 is as it says a Beta product so you should use at your own risk. Using a beta product on your main work PC is asking for trouble.
If you wish to proceed, some beta testers have suggested backing up your hardware profile specifically using System Restore (a manually named restore point not the normal one which Windows does automatically).
If you don't then there is a chance that because this is a beta there may be issues that will cause the uninstallation to fail, meaning you will have to reinstall windows.
Like all betas, if you're not prepared to deal with the bugs and potential side-effects, then stick with the current stable versions.
Quote from IE Blog:
"Can I run the preview and IE6 at the same time?
No, the preview is a system upgrade that replaces IE6 on your computer with the preview code.
As Chris Wilson pointed out, "'IE' is actually a collection of system components - networking, browser hosting, core HTML rendering, printing, etc. When we install a new version of IE, we're installing it for all applications that use these system components - including the tiny iexplore.exe itself." Because of this, we do not support the various hacks that allow side by side running of IE6 and the IE7 Beta 2 Preview. Running with these could cause issues with the stability of a system."
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/01/31/521344.aspx
It's just more MS crud used to force users to install the slow and pathetic XP SP2.
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It would be an insult to other browser makers to say that IE7 B2 preview looks anything like other browsers.
The only resemblence it has to other browsers is the tabs (sort of) and the quick search bar.
To me, IE7 resembles Windows Media Player 10, more than anything else.