Fix for IE7 Beta 3 Install Problems
I finally succumbed and installed the latest beta of IE7 to check out the RSS features, or at least I tried to. Six attempts and no joy. I tried everything and more in their troubleshooting document. I went on to the support site and there was a link to the IE newsgroup. And within two minutes I had the solution!
So much for TechnoGoogleYahooBlogosphericRati, good old 1980′s NNTP News got me the answer.
In case you run into the same problem, don’t worry about any of that Registry editing, just download the installer, reboot into Safe Mode with Networking and do the install from there, reboot again. Problem solved.
First impressions?
- Very similar to Firefox
- For some bizarre reason the menu bar is below the address bar
- Are they running Cleartype now or is that a Vista feature because the font rendering is fabulous?
- Bye Bye Maxthon for all my non-Firefox browsing I think.
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6 Comments for this entry
Conor O'Neill
Well it’s there and they ask if you want to enable it or not but I haven’t had the opportunity to try it. I’ll wait a day or two for one of those Paypal phishes to come in to my Inbox and test it then.
Mark
And at the rate they appear you won’t have too long to wait. 
Conor O'Neill
Yup, just tested it and it worked like a charm. Not sure if it catches phishes in principle (text not the same as URL) or just based on sites it knows about. It called the site I tried to connect to as a "reported phishing site" rather than stopping the link as soon as I clicked on it
Mark Dowling
I agree – Firefox’s bookmark toolbar RSS, its better context menus and tab functions (not to mention the X per tab on 2.0) mean I won’t be leaving FF any time soon. But that font rendering is *very* easy on the eyes even on CRTs. If there was a facility like in Mozilla where you could have a Navigator style interface so that IE7s toolbars could look like IE6 I think it would be very popular in my office.
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Mark
What’s the anti-phising filter like? Any good?