Right-clicking the dark gray button has no effect in Beta 1. But you can right-click any tab button or empty space on the tab bar to bring up a context menu displaying the New Tab, Refresh, Refresh All, Close Other Tabs, and Close options. Sorely missing is a simple way to rearrange the tabs or close them without using a context menu. Several Firefox extensions offer functionality that IE7 should adopt, including double-clicking to close tabs, the ability to rearrange tabs by dragging-and-dropping, and the ability to save tab sets and reopen them later.
This version of the browser offers three basic on/off configuration settings, found on the Advanced tab of the Internet Options Control Panel:
With the "Always open pop-ups in a new window" option turned off, you can right-click a hyperlink displayed on a Web page and select "Open in New Tab" to bring it up in a new tab. You can't, however, do the same thing with a link in your Favorites, an unfortunate omission that we hope Microsoft will remedy before the product ships.
Toolbar Updates
The address bar contains the forward and back buttons, the URL type-in field, the merged Refresh/Stop button (a feature inspired by Apple's Safari browser), and the new Web-search field. The overall design of Beta 1's toolbar area is good, and the address bar is no exception. The Refresh/Stop button works well, but its placement to the right of the address bar is awkward, since it's not near any other browser control buttons. In fact, the buttons that control IE7 are now spread out, something Microsoft should work to correct.
One of the strangest aspects of this IE7 beta is that you cannot move the tab bar to the lowest of the three toolbar positions. So the file menu, button toolbar, and Links bar (when displayed) all appear below the tabs and above the Web window. Good user-interface design dictates that the tabs appear just above the Web window, since their selection directly relates to that window. Very probably this is also just another early beta issue.
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