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So IE7 has finally been released and the inevitable security exploits have already started surfacing. I’m very glad to see it, to be honest. The new CSS support is very welcome, even if it is playing catchup to the rest of the field.

And I’ve got it running standalone too. Jon Galloway’s IE7 Standalone works just fine with a single change to the ‘IE7 Standalone Setup.bat’ file.

Download IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe from Microsoft, making sure you save it instead of running it. Follow all Jon’s instructions but before running ‘IE7 Standalone Setup.bat’ change: IE7RC1-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe /extract:Installation /quiet to IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe /extract:Installation /quiet.

That’s it. All done. Continue following Jon’s instructions and it should all just work.

Both Signal vs Noise and What Do I Know have posted articles in the last couple of days about Firefox’s apparent surge in use… 30%+! That’s an incredible leap. However, at the moment it’s only tech sites that we know about, most notably ZDNet… The Counter still rates Mozilla down around the 2% mark, and that’s probably the best gauge of the browsing habits of the casual internet user, so, as always, all I can conclude is: know your audience. I’m keeping my fingers crossed though!