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Phaelax
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Posted: 24th Jan 2006 05:11
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Dave J
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Posted: 24th Jan 2006 05:20
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Looks ok, nothing special.


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Posted: 24th Jan 2006 05:21
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Yah, it looks light a slightly re-arranged Internet Explorer. Though, it does look cool (finally tabbed browsing)

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JoelJ
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Posted: 24th Jan 2006 05:48
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ick, missing menus, they leave the unused FORWARD button but remove the used STOP and REFRESH buttons? what the crap.

but it's improved a LOT from the orriginal, should be interesting to see later

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Posted: 24th Jan 2006 05:55
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The refresh and stop buttons are after the url box thingy.

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Posted: 24th Jan 2006 06:00
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well, that was a stupid idea...

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Posted: 24th Jan 2006 10:01
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Looks nice - if it can store passwords and things like that, it'll probably replace Firefox here.

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I dislike password storage... you always forget your passwords b/c you never actually type them anymore, so if you are away or something goes wrong with the password thingy, you are stuck b/c you can't remember your passwords. So needless to say, I don't turn on password storage for any programs anymore.

Same thing happens with my cell phone, I just say "dial home" and it calls home like magic, but the other day somebody asked me for my home phone number, and I had no clue what it was b/c I never actually dial my home number.

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Van B
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Posted: 24th Jan 2006 14:02
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I don't think there was anything wrong with having decent sized refresh and back buttons, but looks like they've went all feng shui on us. Personally I'd rather see a massive improvement in security features than any improvement in looks.


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Posted: 24th Jan 2006 21:14
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I vote i get my refresh and stop button back to where it belongs...

my crap that was a stupid idea...

I was actually almost to the point in saying "IE will replace good ol' firefox here" and NO they ruined it, and I also really need some beautiful mouse gesters...

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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Posted: 24th Jan 2006 21:30
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ayone got a cached pic of it? the bandwidth is exceeded on that site

where i went on holiday to
www.portaventura.es and also http://themepark.nl/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=UBB7&Number=661483&page=0&fpart=all
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Posted: 24th Jan 2006 21:49 Edited at: 24th Jan 2006 21:50
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here are some general Vista screenshots, including a few IE7 ones.

http://www.only4gurus.com/v3/longhorn.asp


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Posted: 25th Jan 2006 03:39
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I'm willing to make a safe bet that like all things Windows, the toolbars and buttons can be rearranged and customized to suit your needs. But I'm sure you all already knew that, right?


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Posted: 25th Jan 2006 04:03
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Windows Vista is great
someone gave me a leaked version, so i got to have it installed for a whole 30 days because of their wonderful "register your product in 30 days" nag they have. But it's not worth having other than just to see how it is anyway, no drivers or anything.

Quote: "I'm willing to make a safe bet that like all things Windows, the toolbars and buttons can be rearranged and customized to suit your needs. But I'm sure you all already knew that, right? "

yeah, i was hoping they'd have something like that...

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Posted: 25th Jan 2006 05:01
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This is neat. Should I stop using FF yet?

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Posted: 25th Jan 2006 06:08
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Quote: "This is neat. Should I stop using FF yet?"


I've been asking myself the same thing.
my question is, what about Extensions and Visual themes?
MS is pretty good with freaking LOCKING visual themes (windows XP Themes anyone?)

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Posted: 25th Jan 2006 06:13 Edited at: 25th Jan 2006 06:13
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I wish. but I hate installing those themer progarms (for XP). So I hope MS will eventually make XP fully skinable. (and IE7)

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Posted: 25th Jan 2006 09:14
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Hmm. Can't see pictures. I assume it's leaked images of the beta 2? Hopefully you can move things around, because beta 1 can't, and even though I *hated* the layout in the beginning, after several months of using IE7 beta 1 I'm kinda used to it now. Any ideas if they have implemented an FF style "open all in tabs" option to folders in favourites? One of my fave things in FF basically. Just right click on my online comics folder and they all load nicely into loads of tabs. Lovely.

Oh yeah, anyone else using beta 1 notice that it's taking bloody ages to start up these days? When I first got it it would start instantly (much better than FF), but now it seems to take several seconds when started for the first time after boot up (much worse than FF). Well annoying.

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Posted: 25th Jan 2006 17:51 Edited at: 25th Jan 2006 17:51
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Quote: "When I first got it it would start instantly (much better than FF), but now it seems to take several seconds when started for the first time after boot up"

maybe it's because of a large history, more bookmarks, more cache, etc.

Quote: "I wish. but I hate installing those themer progarms (for XP). So I hope MS will eventually make XP fully skinable. (and IE7)"

they have cracked the theme DLL thingy, so you can just replace it and then install the themes,


beautiful, easy, and no windowsblinds crap software to manage it...

don't ask me where i downloaded it, i can't remember , but I do believe i have the install folders for the OSX and Vista themes, and the OSX one cracks the dll for you and everything

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Posted: 25th Jan 2006 18:05
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nice

where i went on holiday to
www.portaventura.es and also http://themepark.nl/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=UBB7&Number=661483&page=0&fpart=all
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Posted: 25th Jan 2006 19:24
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MS's reason for locking visual themes is sensible - can you imagine how much grief their customer support would have if people could use any old theme?

All it takes is one 12 year old and a badly written theme to wreck a pc and you'd have thousands of complaints like "my windows are disappearing" etc.

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Posted: 25th Jan 2006 21:37
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good point

but still, they should have an option to enable custom themes and stuff ...

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Posted: 26th Jan 2006 06:14
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And have it password protected.

Wow. DO you know what I could search google for it? That would be SO COOL.

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Posted: 26th Jan 2006 07:53
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Quote: "I don't think there was anything wrong with having decent sized refresh and back buttons, but looks like they've went all feng shui on us. Personally I'd rather see a massive improvement in security features than any improvement in looks."


Upgrade to Windows XP Service Pack 2, don't use an administrator account for day-to-day work, and disable ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer. That should cover most bases.

Personally I turn IE's security settings up to maximum (disabling scripting, ActiveX controls etc.), which deals with those programs that have to use IE's components to display HTML (eg. Windows Media Player, Windows Explorer), then I use FireFox as my main web browser.

Under Windows Vista, I believe that new users are no longer created administrators by default, and Internet Explorer runs with fewer privileges that normal applications. This limits the damage that can be done even if a vulnerability is discovered in explorer that allows arbitrary code to be executed.


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Quote: "Personally I turn IE's security settings up to maximum (disabling scripting, ActiveX controls etc.), which deals with those programs that have to use IE's components to display HTML (eg. Windows Media Player, Windows Explorer), then I use FireFox as my main web browser."


That's a great idea! I always leave mine at the default state because when I used to use IE, I hated how it rejected many websites. Now that I haven't used IE for years, there's no point in letting other programs that use the WebBrowser control wreak havoc on my system.


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Quote: "maybe it's because of a large history"
Nah, turns out the computer I use IE7 on is totally stuffed. Just bought a new one today instead.

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Quote: "I don't think there was anything wrong with having decent sized refresh and back buttons, but looks like they've went all feng shui on us. Personally I'd rather see a massive improvement in security features than any improvement in looks.
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yes! why doesnt anybody understand this! ive seen millions of menu's and a menu with any other wrapping is still a menu, I want to see massive security upgrades, a message telling you a connection timed out instead of spending 10hrs loading a page , some tabs, and a more visible cache. the plasticy shiny gui button thing is not cool, and im not fascinated with It.

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Posted: 27th Jan 2006 03:21
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It's a bit hard to show a screenshot of a security upgrade. Just because you can't see it in a picture, doesn't mean it's not there.


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Quote: "It's a bit hard to show a screenshot of a security upgrade"

true but it's also a bit hard to believe that MS would work on Security first, good looks second they're all into the, "make it look good, get people to use it, fix problems"


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Bleh. Looks like yet another Firefox clone.

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Yah it does. and Joel, could I get the themes, I beleieve you just have to have a modified uxtheme.dll . So, since I've done that already, I just need themes to go with it.

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I once spent a day system restoring after I botched a uxtheme patch!

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I'm proud to own Object Desktop and WindowBlinds. Version 5 has per-pixel alpha and pretty special effects like glowing buttons.

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which i hate so much.
ex:
my desktop

Dont code slowly be SWIFT about it!

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Posted: 29th Jan 2006 02:25 Edited at: 29th Jan 2006 02:27
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I find it funny that big, corporate M$ is scrambling to include *coughripoffcough* features in their web browser that Firefox users have had for years.

I'll stick with the original, thank you.

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Posted: 30th Jan 2006 00:34 Edited at: 30th Jan 2006 00:35
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refraze, dont use your desktop folder as a storage area for files and folders, it has been known to be a system killer. or at least it used to be. Shortcuts galore, no problem.
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Using it right now - very impressed.

To those who say 'firefox clone' - how else are they going to improve it, hmm?

And those wondering about security obvioulsy haven't been following IE7 or Vista at all.

Anyway, the browser itself: Like I said, very impressed. It actually loads WAY faster than Firefox 1.5 or 1.7x beta, which I'm using, the tabbed browsing is nice and functional, and page loading is actually a little bit smoother than Firefox; it looks like it updates with every new bit of data. There are definatly glitches in this beta - input boxes don't scroll w/ text put in it, some fields don't display right (like this posting box)... and of course it lacks Firefox's million and one awesome features. But once it's finished, I would strongly consider switching from FF.


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