Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is the most recent version of the Internet Explorer 6 core technologies in most Windows OSes.Total download size for a typical installation is approximately 25 MB. However, because setup downloads only those files that are necessary for your computer, this size can vary between 11 and 75 MB. In the beset case, users who have already applied the WindowsXP SP1, might only need to download a few KBs.
Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 Released
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This interests me… I started out on win98 so I’ve downloaded IE a lot of times…
Up until IE 5.5 Service pack 2 the text said “because setup downloads only those files that are necessary for your computer, this size can vary between 11 and 25MB”
But on the release of IE 6 that changed to 75Mb
Longest running Typographical error yet? I have never had to download more than 20Mb of browser at one time…
Just to let you know, I installed the SP1 of IE just now and I lost all my cookies.
When I installed the XP SP1 the other day, the cookies were left intact.
Just in case you hadn’t noticed, XP SP1 is also availiable on windowsupdate as of just a few hours ago.
The IE update is only 845kb with Windows XP 2002 SP1. I guess the EULA alone is 800kb 😉
BTW, the update puts a shortcut for the Windows Media Player into your quick launch toolbar (I had that Media Player shortcut deleted, but the update put it in again) and adds the usual favourites into your bookmark folder … It’s anoying to have to delete all this stuff after every update.
Cheers
Does anyone know if SP1 fixes the annoying bug where bookmarks launched from the links bar load in the wrong browser window if you have more than one browser window open? They had fixed this in one of the 5.5 service packs, but broke it again in 6.0.
I love Internet Explorer, but this particular bug is really annoying
It did not do that (WMP, bookmarks) for me at all. Are you sure that you did not install also the Windows Media Player 9Beta as well, by mistake? (it is available via windowsupdate too you see..)
Im using winxp sp1 and i downloded the “installer” 400KB (or so) and it took about 10 sec on my dsl the “update” took about 5sec (for download)
just a thought
IE6 SP1 still can’t handle transparent PNG files.
Screenshot:
http://cw.walla.co.il/community/2002/9/10/7159819/ie6sp1_vs_moz.png
Test page:
http://entropymine.com/jason/testbed/pngtrans
If only Mozilla had proper BiDi, my choice would be easy… hey, a rhyme! 🙂
It’s downloading 11548KB now…
Eugenia can you make a poll on:
do you read the EULA yes / no / only for fun?
Wasn’t somebody complaining about this just the other day? It has been an issue for a long time now. Since PNG usage is becoming more wide spread, I really think MS should fix this.
Does anyone know if SP1 fixes the annoying bug where bookmarks launched from the links bar load in the wrong browser window if you have more than one browser window open? They had fixed this in one of the 5.5 service packs, but broke it again in 6.0.
I love Internet Explorer, but this particular bug is really annoying
Grrrrrr. That one irks me to no end. It only happens to me with links in a folder/menu on the Links bar, not ones on the bar itself. I hope they did fix it, but I don’t see it listed on the official list of things fixed at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q326489
Microsoft thinks so too. Or at least part of it does. When I spoke to one of their developers at the Web conference a few years back he swore it would be in the next version. Sure.
Office and several other groups rely on PNG heavily already. However the WinIE group don’t like PNG (this may be something to do with crazy old Amiga fanatics who believe IFF was the first ever tag/block based file format…), or at least want to discourage its use. So they’ve stalled on implementation a lot, even adding some truely wacky image processing features so that you CAN have alpha PNGs only if you write dozens of lines of extra JS in your web pages…
The MacIE5 group were independent and they implemented PNG just fine (they used Group42’s code and consulted with png-devel), as well as doing a fair job of CSS’s box model, but that group was swept aside and some new guys were put in charge of the project, newer MacIE builds have partially disabled PNG. A checkbox “mysteriously” becomes unchecked sometimes.
It’s all politics basically. Microsoft is just as bad as any other large company, the customers are less important than Fred stealing engineers from Dave, or Jill sabotaging Project X because they didn’t give her a raise.
Looks like this broke some iFrames for me, most noteable is AOL’s webmail.. which works perfect in NS. Also, some shoutbox sites. I get three reload “clicks” then just whitespace. I formatted and reinstalled, succesfully reproduced the error. As did a friend.. proceed with caution if you go to a lot of sites with iFrames.
Hey, even BeOS NetPositive pass this PNG transparency tests.
Who consider Net+ an obsolete web browser now?
Hm? What? “JavaScript support”?
Who need JS support when you have PNG transparency!?!
;-p
Woohoo! It looks like they fixed the Links bar menu bug. Joy!
Two of the employees here just i nstalled IE6 SP1, and they BOTH lost connectivity. I did the same thing to find out if i would too (i run xp), and i didn’t. The two people that lost connectivity run 98 and 2K respecively.
Just thought you all should know about this.
Take Care
p13as3
Here’s all MS has to do to make Mozilla obsolete:
1. Implement tabs
2. Built-in popup killer
3. Image server blocking (banner ad killer)
I can see them implementing tabs, but I suspect many of MS’s own sites would be broken if they implemented popup blocking by means of giving users more fine-grained control over what javascript functions may run. And, I seriously doubt they’d implement anything to kill banner ads. So, for now I’ll stick with Mozilla.
I disabled Internet explorer and outlook express using the “set program access” tool however they are both back after i did the upgrade. The options in “set program access ” have also been reset
For the png stuff there is a work-around, see http://webfx.nu/dhtml/pngbehavior/pngbehavior.html
The most anoying thing with sp1 however is that you can no longer resize a window opened as fullscreen, thus creating a window without any decoration.
Rude Turnip: I can see them implementing tabs, but I suspect many of MS’s own sites would be broken if they implemented popup blocking by means of giving users more fine-grained control over what javascript functions may run. And, I seriously doubt they’d implement anything to kill banner ads. So, for now I’ll stick with Mozilla.
They also wouldn’t implement tabbed browsing, as they are pushing the adoption of pure SDI. Yeah, I guess you would have to stick with Mozilla.