Internet Explorer 6.0 is now available for download from Microsoft. Anyone brave enough to test it should post their comments for the rest of us who are sitting back waiting to see what happens!

mmmm it works sweet in xp....

That it does - Quite impressive. I've been using it for a month with no problems :)

yer ive being using for about 2 weeks. works fine, havent had any probs with it.

bah it sux if your on a 9x / Me system theres a bug
in explorer , after you colapse tree it stays like that
you have to shut it down are reopen it.
for 9x users goto clickable

useing win2k and its working fine

the installer stops saying it cant access the site. f***ing gay internet installers why can't I just download the whole f***ing thing.

Ungoliant,

There's an option there to download it to install later. a little tick box sort of on the right somewhere when doing the 'customise' install.

My install failed twice, then rebooted with out asking me if it was ok to do so.

Now the AGN Bar works so I'm happy.

It's ghey-ed up the mouseover script on the MPU site though. It now appears somewhere out of place, like not near the cursor.

Hasn't it been out for ages now ??

It sucks that you have to use that stupid installer-off-the-net thing though - I just want to download a 50mb self-extracting thing and thats it.

Had no problems with it in XP, and the few hours that I've used it under Win2k I haven't had any problems either.

damn that link i posted is broke :(

Its been out under Preview release for current OS's and full release under XP.

yup, won't complete downlaod on my compouter either.

stopsa at about 9megs.

i've been using it here at work for a while now with MANY problems
it crashes occasionally

i just looked @ the mpu site and found a problem for you

http://users.bigpond.net.au/wart/funny.jpg

I've been using the beta for quite awhile with the only problem being the Explorer file-tree bug (mentioned earlier). Otherwise it's been more stable than IE5 or 5.5.

But it $hits me that MS have screwed around with the installer again. I can't just do a download of the files here at work because I don't have the latest NT service pack on this PC. And I don't even want the NT version - all I want is the Win9x version so I can take it home and try it there first. Stupid MS!

Mine shat itself just after the 9 meg mark....it died at the mediaplayer setup bit.
i didnt find any option to download the full thing =( can someone please point us in the right direction if there really is an option to do a full download then install, rather than a web install

I've been using it for about 2 weeks under Winblows 98 se and havent had any problems. It seems to be more stable than some other versions.. though it does seem to start up a bit slower.

I would help out, but 'a previous install is pending requiring a reboot...' no chance in hell of me rebooting for another month, did the 'oh s*** my accounts expired' monthly reboot yesterday, and ie already rebooted me once today :(

When i saw it, as i said earlier, i was going through the 'customise' install and on the right was a little click box, something like 'download this to install later (full)'

thanks
plz forgive my ignorance =)

no problems here, using XP RC2

That's interesting... I just wandered over to a Win2k machine we've got running here and tried a download there. When I tried running the setup it didn't give any customize options - it just wanted to do the straight up 11Mb install.

At least the old web install let you pick which OS(s) you wanted to download for and customize whether you wanted to install or just download.

listen to ya whingin fags
just install it and shutup

Uh... I can't install it. That's the whole problem. The stupid thing won't let me download the version I need :(

that's cos you're gay

yeah Jim we can't install it you dumb phuck. ):(

Well i don't know what your problem is. I clicked on the link above. then frantically clicked on anything that said 'download' as i was dieing for a piss.

When i got pack it's downloaded 508,240 ie6setup.exe. I run that it says i gotta agree to some huge policy statement which i just clicked. It then gave me a choice of: (from memory)

Normal Install (which included dildophic tools like Outlook Express)

and

Minimal - custom (which let me chose not to install outlook express- and had the click box i'm talking about)

SURELY SOMEONE ELSE HAS SEEN THIS OPTION TOO?

That doesn't help if it stops at 9 MB. They want to not have to download when you install it, but download a complete self contained download.

I saw the click box but it dies downloading it. it get to 20MB and says it can't download the rest.

natslovR I get an error message saying I don't have NT 4 Service Pack 6a installed when I try and run the install stub on my work PC and then it stops (and I can't install the service pack). If I try it on the Win2k PC here at work the install stub works but I get no customisation options, it just downloads and installs the Win2k version. Are you doing your install on a Win9x box?

I want to be able to download all three versions in one hit like the old installers did. And BTW, thanks Jim lotsa help :)

youse are gay

:P~~~

/me runs

sKryBe,

I'm running Windows NT Version 4.0.1381. I can't imagine that i installed many service packs.. cause i'm lazy.

I was running ie5.0.2 something prior to this as the upgrade to 5.5 never worked for me.. it always whinged about something.

yes very good Jim I'm sure you'll do well in life.

Yeah, doing pretty well thanks - a sense of humour helps a lot

jim has done verry well inlife

ok now ive installed it i have to go find 5.5.

Oh good a post that doesn't have a reference to people's sexuality, nice to see some originality for once.

I don't get any optiosn either, it just goes straight into it.

it's got past the 9 meg mark now. yay.

hmm.. to quote the installer...

Setup has determined the following components were not installed: -

Inter Explorer 6
Oulook Express
Internet Somthing or other
Something else

I then reset and it coems up telling me the previous instsll wasn't finished, do it again, same thing happens.

Reset, pressed cancel when annoying window telling me about my crappy isntall coems up.

ofcourse Internet Explorer 6 is running fine.

I am dazed and Confused.

The icon is a crappy colour blue too.

oh, notice when j00 hold teh mouse butt0n over a picceh j00 g1t a neat lil toolbar. no m0re rwight clicken'.

i hate that it pisses me off

yeah that is stupid

natslovR that's weird. Ah well, I'll try another download tonight and see how it goes on my home win9x PC.

you're gay ungoliant

The install is kinda dodgy I have tried it on 5 pcs so far. And so far none have gone on perfectly first go.

Firstly you have to untick VBScript support (it will autodownload it once its installed anyway). But even ignoring that it comes up with either install errors (ie. files are in use errors) or it doesn't clear out the "runonce" reg stuff properly ending up with you being continually told you didn't complete installing it (hit cancel and its fine.. basically its whinging that it couldn't install VBScript support).

It works ... but I wouldn't bother just yet.

whatever, it works perfectly yu fagerts

and ungolient is a homo face

jim is a lesbian

shutup faggit uncogoliunt is

jim calm down dude

SHUTPU I AM CALM BUMFACE ITS UNCOLIENT IS GAY SHUTUP

Do you people really need IE6? If your current browser still does the job then why bother upgrading to some s***heap that doesn't?

That conclusion was brought to you by Logic(tm) the latest innovation in human mental development! Beta3 now available!

that's the dumbest reason not to upgrade ever - clearly not driven by logic at all

Jim, stop drinking toilet duck, mmkay?

http://www.wireplay.com.au/cluepon/ie6.jpghttp://www.wireplay.com.au/cluepon/oe6.jpg

And?

you wish soooo baaaaad that you had it installed but your poxy hunter computer crashed cos it was too pov

haha

i'll stick with what i got atm until you can prove to me otherwise

prove what to you

that doesn't even make sense

What's the fuss - I downloaded the 13mb installer for my ME and then downloaded the XP version for later use. Took only 30 sec from Optus as well I should Add !

No.. I hadn't even bothered to download it.. because I DON'T NEED IT. IE5.5 works perfectly alright for me.

haha, hunter you're on pov dialup and you're jealous and you think that ie6 will tell microsoft about the weird s*** you probbaly get up to in your bedroom

IE 5.5 works fine IE6.0 works fine and the difference between them is absolutly jack s*** so use 5.5 or 6.0 it doesn't make a f*** of a difference you can still be a the net and swear at ppl & call them gay fudge packer's and s*** like that so, WHO GIVE A f*** WHICH ONE IT IS AS LONG AS IT WORKS?

Hahahhahaha.

Whats the f***ing decision making? Just download the bloody browser already and be done with it.

Jim, at least theres activity in my bedroom, unlike yours.

but jims not making sweet love to his hand.

haha

don't give a f*** personally.

like old ie with new icaon...ffs

bah i cbf downloading it, i hate downloading things for windows cause they have the tendancy to screw up, and cause im on dial up thats just gay, so i will stick with I.E 5 :(

if i had cable i would get it :P

Ooooooooooooohhhhhhhh I luuuuuuuurvvvv Optus Cable. Took me <1min to D/L 16 meg and took me longer to install it. Looks ok with Win98SE so far.. thought the light blue e icoon is a little sissy....... I want the dark blue one back!

Yep!

New version of IE!

toolbar/icon...

whoa!!!!

oh, a stunning new feature. which happens to absolutely spastic, is pics. well resize themselves to fit into the ie window you have open.

the size dont matter, it will go as big or small as your window.

to view its actual size you have to wait for a lil toolbar to pop up on the bottom right of it.

sigh.

strangely enough, there's a setting to toggle that feature on/off in the options! ...

Strangely enough you don't need IE6!

im aware.

im glad i dl'd this so i could turn it off.

yeah you do, for all the uber enhancements!

You call them uber enhancements, I call them bloatware.

your gay

OK, I finally managed to get the damn thing! Did the download at home on a Win98 box and it worked perfectly the first go, even gave me the option to select which OS I wanted to dl for etc. So I grabbed the Win9x, WinNT and Win2k versions in one go. Maybe it's only the win2k install stub that's fuxored...

Anyway, IE6 is much more stable than IE5 or 5.5. I could consistently crash IE5 & 5.5 (a couple different ways) but they've finally stamped those bugs out. It's probably crashable some other way but I haven't found it yet. And it's smaller than ie5.5 was so maybe it should be called 'shrinkware'? It seems faster but that's not through empirical testing. And to be honest the small improvements are useful if not earthshattering - and if you don't like 'em you can turn em off!

how does downloading another 9mb or so, make it smaller?

Something worth noting is that IE6 has abandoned netscape compatible plugins :o(

Hey, are you _REALLY_ THE CAROL BRADY?!

the install worked perfectly first time on my win2k install, and my wife's

This is the person that used to have a colour spray of Carol Brady in CS :P

Peacekeeper, have you downloaded IE5.5? Have you seen how big that download is? If you start out a windows install with the default (ie4 I think) then it's better to go straight for ie6.

I think abandoning Netscape plugins was inevitable. How many netscape only plugins do any of us use? I for one don't use any (that I can recall). We've just abandoned cross browser compatibility here at work because the number of netscape users is dwindling steadily while the IE users increase.

I know it pisses off some people but [shrugs] it cuts development time significantly.

Yep - Works fine, damn sweet - f***ing J0R Interface... and extremily stable under Linux..

Talking about Mozilla right?

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Proudly Microsoft Gh3yness free for three years.

IE = arse

mozilla = fugly/crap/s***

The problem wif installing IE 5 or above on Win2k is the fact taht, as u guys have noted, u only get one option, INSTALL, nothing else. Whereas on win9x and ME, u get all the options. Why it is like this I don't know but when I was building IE kits wif the IEAK, it told me that and I thought, well this is pretty s***. Anyway, that's why u don't get the options in win2k. It's pretty s*** but that's the way it is.

ffs my god dam IE 5 icon WILL NOT change to the newer one!! WHY?

LINK FULL INSTALL DIR

Sweeet! That was what I was looking for. Thanks Torment.

jesus you ppl sark it was so easy toi get the full installer

reckon

jesus you ppl sark it was so easy toi get the full installer

Sorry for posting the locatoin of it then ... shesssh

just trying to help a couple of people out that could find it .....