Having problems with explorer 7 beta

donglefan

I updated to beta7 recently, unaware, hrm, that it was experimental.
I like the tabs but I'm having problems with one site in particular, Green Flag to get a quote for their breakdown cover deal, which is rather frustrating as there is also £20 back through quidco.
There is also a slight problem with quidco site display.
Problems as follows:
1. on quidco the headings merge into one another (does not disrupt use of the site at all)
2. on green flag, accessed via quidco, i go to the get breakdown cover quote popup screen and the form does not come through, just the headings round the form. Then I tried cut and pasting the url of the popup into the previous browser page, and then the form comes up but skew and so some boxes (the ones with information options next to them) are unclickable.
3. tried using firefox browser instead. with this, no distortion of quidco site. Go to green flag site and the popup quote window comes up with the form and all displayed options clickable BUT a different problem - you can't scroll down to the bottom of the form to click continue to get the quote.
4. contacted Green Flag and quidco who confirm the site is working fine for them.

Ideas welcome.

superscaper

That's the problem with beta software, you can suggest the problems to microsoft but that's about all, I wouldn't risk using it as a main browser though other than to just "try it out", if it was ready for proper use they'd have a release candidate to download.

leesmithg

What you missed the windows explorer 7 beta

It quite clearly says it's a beta at M$ download site.

Just rollback to IE 6

donglefan

Why would firefox be having a problem with the same greenflag webpage though - albeit a different problem?
On the whole I am liking explorer 7 a lot, although I wish the favourites were arranged in alphabetical order as in firefox.

leesmithg

donglefan wrote:

Why would firefox be having a problem with the same greenflag webpage though - albeit a different problem?
On the whole I am liking explorer 7 a lot, although I wish the favourites were arranged in alphabetical order as in firefox.

Maybe whomever or those that coded the page are amateurs!

superscaper

Yep probably poor coding. Tailoring to IE instead of trying to make it HTML compliant.

leesmithg

superscaper wrote:

Yep probably poor coding. Tailoring to IE instead of trying to make it HTML compliant.

Yes netscape was the big browser before IE.

The standards agency more or less liken the code to mozilla/netscape thats why IE users do suffer from viewing webs sometimes.

donglefan

seems like the easiest solution for me to get a quote from green flag is to use another computer.

if i want to use ie 6, how do i go back to that from ie 7 beta?

MercilessKiller

leesmithg wrote:

What you missed the windows explorer 7 beta

It quite clearly says it's a beta at M$ download site.

Just rollback to IE 6

lol well done I saw the title and thought the same thing lol.

MercilessKiller

donglefan wrote:

seems like the easiest solution for me to get a quote from green flag is to use another computer.

if i want to use ie 6, how do i go back to that from ie 7 beta?

add/remove programs I'm assuming? Or IE6 is still installed somewhere...

leesmithg

MercilessKiller wrote:

add/remove programs I'm assuming? Or IE6 is still installed somewhere...

Yes s/he can take their pick on how to uninstall it.

Start Here


I recommend the first one.