IE11 for Windows 7 Globally Available

DonaldMII said:

2 questions, 1. when will the 64 bit capability be activated in IE 11 for windows 7.

2. Will I lose any functionality by using it (like not having the Flash player in the older versions)?

Thanks in advance.

Donald

UsernameIssues said:

Welcome to the Seven Forums.

I'm pretty sure that IE11 is just like IE10 in that (on a 64bit system) IE10 always starts in the 64bit mode.

See this long post for more info:
MSE worries

It is as I thought:
IE11 (on a 64bit OS) will create 64bit children if EPM is turned ON.
IE11 (on a 64bit OS) will create 32bit children if EPM is turned ON, but a 32bit plug-in is needed.
IE11 (on a 64bit OS) will always create 32bit children if EPM is turned OFF.
The "children" do the surfing.

Flash works fine too.

UsernameIssues said:

pbcopter said:

Hi Night Hawk

What I am talking about is the highlighted text, blue arrow box and context menu that is shown in Post # 12

This does not work in IE 11 with zoom set to anything but 100%.

I agree with Night Hawk. Maybe you have a video driver issue:

Attachment 292986

This occurs on three systems all with different graphics hardware (AMD and NVIDIA).

I have found, however, that what happens when the zoom is anything but 100% , is the blue arrow box becomes separated from the input area of the screen. If I move the mouse around the highlighted text, I can find the input area and the context menu appears.

I did notice that the blue box was missing from my screenshot, but I figured that it was due to the video driver used in VirtualBox VMs. I'll install IE11 for the 6th time and play with it some more

I included a screen shot of the phenomena at 100% and 125%

You are correct.It does seem to be a bug. Not that I ever use the blue square.

This is IE11 at 125%


I also tested IE10, IE9 and IE8 on that same page - with the same text selected. Those three versions worked as expected.

I also noticed in IE 11, that when I click on an attached thumbnail, like those above in this thread, I get the black screen with the rotating "spoke wheel" which then freezes. I must select the X to leave that screen and the next time I click on the attached thumbnail, the picture will appear.

You can no longer arrange the Favorites Bar, with a combination of internet shortcuts and local shortcuts, like you could in IE 9 and IE 10. It will put local shortcuts to the right of the internet shortcuts. They can not be intermixed.

I'm beginning to regret upgrading to IE 11.

pbcopter said:

I'm beginning to regret upgrading to IE 11.

You can uninstall it: Remove an update
The system will automatically roll back to previously installed version.

hexaae said:

pbcopter said:

I'm beginning to regret upgrading to IE 11.

You can uninstall it: Remove an update
The system will automatically roll back to previously installed version.

Thank you but it was just a comment on my part.

pbcopter said:

I also noticed in IE 11, that when I click on an attached thumbnail, like those above in this thread, I get the black screen with the rotating "spoke wheel" which then freezes. I must select the X to leave that screen and the next time I click on the attached thumbnail, the picture will appear....

I was not able to reproduce that. All of the images on this page opened via IE11 using left click or right click > open in new tab.

pbcopter said:

...You can no longer arrange the Favorites Bar, with a combination of internet shortcuts and local shortcuts, like you could in IE 9 and IE 10. It will put local shortcuts to the right of the internet shortcuts. They can not be intermixed.....

I deleted the two items that MS puts on that bar - so maybe doing that messed up my testing. I was able to bookmark this thread and create a "local shortcut" to notepad. I could swap them around left to right. I'm not sure if that is what you had in mind for a local shortcut.