Microsoft unveils IE 7 Beta 2 features
The Internet Explorer development team has revealed details of upcoming key features that will land in the next beta of IE 7.
Among the features demonstrated this week at a Microsoft Professional Developer Conference presentation, then outlined on the IE team's blog, were Quick Tabs and Page Zoom.
The former, wrote Chris Wilson, an IE 7 developer, lets users view and manage tabs -- IE 7 sports a tabbed interface, similar to the one Firefox and Opera have had for some time -- with a live thumbnail view of all tabs. Page Zoom, meanwhile, allows users to zoom in on text and graphics of web pages. Other new features, said Wilson, will include something he dubbed "ActiveX Opt-in," that will set most ActiveX controls (even those already installed) as disabled by default. Users can selectively enable controls as necessary.
ActiveX controls take the blame for many of IE's security woes, with both malicious code and spyware/adware using ActiveX, and vulnerabilities in it, to install themselves on PCs.
L33tdawg: Don't forget to check out Tony Chor's presentation on IE Security: Past, Present and Future at the upcoming HITBSecConf2005 - Malaysia. Tony is set to present some new features not seen in Beta 1 of IE 7 including the new Phishing Filter. You DO NOT want to miss this!
