Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 preview

[Nocturnal]

I tried it on a test box, it's a mess. They implemented the menu and buttons from the Vista version. It's a totally complete redesign of the GUI comapred to beta 1. The amount of ram it uses up on some web pages is just insane. I went to www.newzbin.com which is a Usenet resource page and my PF Usage sky rocketed to over 1.5GB. My CPU Usage history is a mess. With beta 1, it was rather stable. With beta 2 the CPU Usage goes haywire.

Another thing they didn't get right is when you open a favorites group in tabs, about ten or more, your computer comes crawling to a halt. Your resources are maxed out. I did this with FireFox and my resources were untouched. MS is doing something wrong if FireFox can do this without taxing your system resources.

The box that I'm running IE on is no slouch either, 1GB memory, 2.2GHZ CPU, it isn't slow by today's standards, not really. Anyway, has anyone else gotten to try this piece of crap out yet? I've heard people say how fast it is, no problems, etc. It is slow and eats up a crap load of resources. Reminiscent of Norton products. I mean if they really think they are this close to releasing a beta 2 to the public, they have a whole world of hurt coming their way. I truly hope this is far from the actual beta 2 code because if it is, nobody is going to want to switch back from FireFox to IE.

Oh yeah, it doesn't render this forum properly either. Beta 1 had no problems whatsoever.

Yes, I do know that this is a beta product and that I should treat it as such. But, when you are testing the beta 1 and then you install this, things should go from good to better. Not good to worse. That's my logic behind this mini-review/rant.

 

[mzkhadir]

I have tried it myself, slashdot does not load properly, sometimes AT doesn't load properly, Gmail has issues. But its still beta.

 

[Nocturnal]

Have you tried the beta 1 though? How can they go from something that worked so well to something that basically doesn't really work well at all. On top of that, call it a beta 2 preview. LOL!

 

[theMan]

im sure they will sort it out, but why did they release it? wtf?

 

[Nocturnal]

I don't think it was released. It was leaked.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Have you tried the beta 1 though? How can they go from something that worked so well to something that basically doesn't really work well at all. On top of that, call it a beta 2 preview. LOL!

Have you ever written software?

Imagine you have a car, let's call it the "beta 1". It works ok, but it's a prototype, and it's still being developed.

Imagine the engineers decide the car isn't fast enough, so they pull out the working engine and replace it with a prototype engine that's faster, but breaks down a lot. The car is worse to drive because it stalls all the time. It might take a while before the new engine is working as well as the old engine was, but when it's done it will be faster and better.

Software works the same way. If you want a car (or browser) that doesn 't crash, wait until they're finished building it.

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
It was leaked.

Well there you go. For all you know, they could have accidentally cut that build while some developer was halfway through a large checkin. It's not too hard to mess something up and any build that hasn't made it through a proper test cycle can't possibly be taken seriously.

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Have you tried the beta 1 though? How can they go from something that worked so well to something that basically doesn't really work well at all. On top of that, call it a beta 2 preview. LOL!

Have you ever written software?

Imagine you have a car, let's call it the "beta 1". It works ok, but it's a prototype, and it's still being developed.

Imagine the engineers decide the car isn't fast enough, so they pull out the working engine and replace it with a prototype engine that's faster, but breaks down a lot. The car is worse to drive because it stalls all the time. It might take a while before the new engine is working as well as the old engine was, but when it's done it will be faster and better.

Software works the same way. If you want a car (or browser) that doesn 't crash, wait until they're finished building it.

Understood.