Sunday 22 January 2006
Gareth: IE7 Beta 2 has leaked, and it's not terrible.
gareth:
Their implementation of a tab switcher looks pretty cool. Reminiscent of.. . er, that Mac OSX one for switching current open windows. I forget the name.
gareth:
It feels weird to go from Firefox, with all it's amazing functionality and extensions to IE. Although IE is much faster loading, and takes a bit less memory.
gareth:
Oh, and in case anyone was wondering, this is build 5299, one of (if not the) newest builds. Should be quite close to the real thing.
gareth:
It has a couple nifty features - a "restore last tabs group" function as well as the standard IE popup blocker. There is also an intergrated anti-phishing function that seems a good idea. Although it seems only to be a function that checks the url against a Microsoft database of reported scam sites. Having Microsoft receive the url of every site you visit is a but unnerving, in my opinion. Although the feature is completely user-controlled (hopefully!)
gareth:
Here is the white paper on Microsoft's Anti-Phishing plan.
