Thursday, October 19, 2006

IE7 Pain

Yep! Microsoft has done it again. They never fail at bringing you pain. This time it is the final release of their new browser - the Internet Explorer 7.

Since the beginning of my adventure with IE7 I have always had problems with it. At first I have paid two visits to my bank to change my online account password because for some reason i have been unable to log in with a message that the password was incorrect - thrid try and my account had been locked out. At first I thought that it is possible that I have forgotten it. The bank changed my password so I could log in again. But guess what? The new password which I have tested on the computer in the bank did not work at home! It took me a while to figure out that it was the new IE7 (BETA 1 I think) that was causing the problem! This was fixed.

Next there came the problems with "Navigation Cancelled" or other messages that prevent me from browsing sites. Strangely enough, refreshing such a page helps. Sometimes I had to refresh twice but mostly I can handle the problems.

Then came the final release! What a glorius day. I had a release candidate installed by the time I have downloaded the finall version, but I hoped that the setup procedure would handle this situation. This hope was against my previous experiences with Microsoft products which are generally hard to upgrade from the BETAs to finall releases. And then it came. The pain.

I have run the setup file. First validation of my copy of Windows - everything ok. (BTW: I was supprised that there was no validation before downloading). Then I've got a message telling me that I have to restart my system, because of the previous version has been installed. So I did. After a SECOND validation the installation procedure told me that it is downloading some updates for Internet Explorer 7. Hmmm. Updates already after few days? Ooo Ok.

Then the sceond restart came! What the hell? Two restarts are required to install a browser? Hmmm. Even Windows requires only ONE restart if I remember correctly.

After the restart I've been welcomed with a taksbar unlike my previous taksbar. IE7 has decided that I don't need my Quick Launch and my custom toolbar with shortcuts that I'm using for my software. Hmmm. So now IE knows better.

I'm afraid what else might be missing. One thing I have noticed is that IE also messed up my favourites toolbar...

Pain!

It maybe the time for

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Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:31:51 AM (Central European Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [4]  |  Related posts:
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Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:40:39 PM (Central European Standard Time, UTC+01:00)
I feel your pain! Yesterday I installed IE7 and was browsing through ASP.NET's videos. I clicked on a video and I received the contents of the binary file instead.
Denny Love
Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:25:32 PM (Central European Standard Time, UTC+01:00)
I personally use Opera as my primary browser, but since I do web development I also need to have other browsers installed - so I also checked out IE7. Because Windows likes to assume that IE is the only browser you could ever want to use, I had to jump through some hoops to get *everything* on my system to respect Opera as the default browser.

Installing IE7 graciously went and undid all these changes for me. Apparently it's difficult to code a dialog to ASK if that's what I want. It also seems that my system stability has gone downhill, as my system resources disappear into thin air and I've needed to restart several times - where previously I had typically only rebooted my system once every couple of weeks.
Mike
Friday, October 20, 2006 4:26:13 AM (Central European Standard Time, UTC+01:00)
I use firefox. You should try it. Should fix your probs...
Susan
Friday, October 20, 2006 8:31:32 AM (Central European Standard Time, UTC+01:00)
I'm doing web development and I need all the browsers - or rather rendering engines. I needed IE7 only for the engine. I use Maxthon on a daily basis and I find Firefox too slow and too clumsy. I also prefer to see web pages as most of them were ment to be seen - optimized for IE. I would gladly switch to a web browser which would be written in .NET - I wonder when one will appear - and I mean the renreding engine and not a .NET application encapsulating some IE webbrowser control.
We need the .NET html rendering engine!
Michal
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