IE7 Beta 2 SUCKS

Ok, that does it. I just removed IE 7 beta 2 from my laptop. This is by far the worst version of internet explorer I ever used. It sucks by all means. The kind of bugs I faced are so annoying to the extent that they made me feel I wanna smash up my laptop.

Some of the bugs I found are:

1. IE7 and XSLT
    Thanks to firefox, I was able to open and read my chatlogs.

2. IE7 steels focus while opening a page.
    This is REALLY annoying. Imagine you're working or reading something, and all of a sudden IE just pops up taking focus, it gets worst when you're typing something.

3. Cannot view the history of other days other than the current day.
    Oh yeah, its true, no history...the only history you can view is the one of the current date...what the....

4. If a request takes a bit of time, IE7 times out.
    This is by far the worst bug ever (not sure if its a bug, but I do consider it as a bug). If a request takes a while, IE just times out saying that the page cannot be displayed. Try debugging your web applications with that, its almost impossible, it will timeout each time you try to debug your web application in vs.net.

I uninstalled IE7 beta 2 and went back to IE 6. The only thing thats making me not use firefox is that it takes a lot more memory than a browser should.
I really hope they get these issues fixed by the release, or I will be forced to shift entirely to firefox.

Published Tuesday, March 21, 2006 10:55 AM by admin
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# re: IE7 Beta 2 SUCKS @ Monday, April 10, 2006 11:21 PM

Hi this is mogly from hyd, i have one Question on Webparts
wen we have some server side controls in the webpartzone and html controls on the another webparts zone, so once we move the webpart from one place to another then only the server controls vaule will be retraived not for HTML controls.

can we retraive the values of HTML also !!!

plz help me for this Q.

I have some HTML Check boxes on one webpart and Server side Check boxes on one webpart, so wen ever thier is change position of webpart the whole page reloads but only the value of server side check boxes will be retraived and not for values of HTML check boxes,


please reply to this masage or to tara_tharanath@yahoo.com, tara_tharanath@Hotmail.com,


Thanks & Regards
Tharanath Umesh

ASP.Net 2.0 WebParts

# re: IE7 Beta 2 SUCKS @ Friday, April 28, 2006 9:40 AM

Yeah, now that I have my IE7 installation actually working, I agree that it's actually *worse* than any of the pre-releases. The timeout issue totally sucks. I also had the focus stealing issue you mentioned in all the pre-releases, and sure enough it still happens in B2.

Come on Microsoft...wake up and fix this crap!

jayson knight

# re: IE7 Beta 2 SUCKS @ Thursday, May 04, 2006 3:35 AM

Hey Jayson,
I downloaded and installed the latest beta release, I guess the march release..they fixed some of the bugs I mentioned. For example, the XSLT issue was fixed, the history thing was fixed, and most importantly, it doesn't timeout any more.

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