IE7 launched today

Post by **117** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:13 pm

Microsoft has made Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) available to the general public.

The new version is the first upgrade to the web browsing program for more than five years.

New features include tabbed browsing, the ability to search the net directly and an anti-fraud system to thwart phishing attacks.

The new program is available as a free download on 19 October, but many will get it as an automatic update to Windows XP in November.

full story

IE7 download page

Post by **fac51** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:08 pm

heads off to update

Post by **117** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:13 pm

hehe a few hours in, and it's exploited already

Post by **117** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:39 pm

Sooooooooo then, i've installed it, it downloaded updates (wtf? it's only been available a few hours, how can there be updates already?), it promped me to restart, I restarted, I opened IE7, it immediately tried to connect to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74005, it crashed, I started it again, it did the same

vinnieza · Post by **vinnieza** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:31 pm

doh. Downloaded, but it still has that threat?

Post by **117** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:36 pm

Post by **fac51** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:13 pm

working fine here

arfur · Post by **arfur** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:22 pm

It looks out of focus to me.

I need to get FF 2 as well.

Post by **fac51** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:26 pm

that's because it has ClearType enabled by default arf. disable it in options :alt:

arfur · Post by **arfur** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:43 pm

ta just noticed it has done everything

Post by **117** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:20 am

couldn't get it working last night at all, removed it from firewall and re-installed to no avail