IE 7 Beta 3 Gets Closer to the rivals

Microsoft released the IE 7 beta 3 to compete with rivals Firefox and opera. readout the article form eweek.

Microsoft made some fairly minor changes to IE Beta 3, based on feedback from testers of previous IE beta builds, company officials said. Among the changes:

An optional addition of an e-mail button back on the IE toolbar The ability to reorder tabs by dragging them The ability to scroll horizontally while zooming Automatic update of all RSS feeds simultaneously Increased user control in marking RSS feeds as "read" Improved compatibility with existing Web sites and applications through adjustments to IE 7 layout rendering bugs Inclusion of all IE security fixes made in Microsoft's June 13 Patch Tuesday update. Microsoft is still aiming to deliver the final version of the standalone IE 7.0 around the same time as Windows Vista is released to manufacturing, which is still fall 2006, according to Microsoft officials.

On the other side Firefox released the Beta 2