Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 download

[cibomatto2002]

Microsoft has put in place the preparations for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 ready for Mix 08.

A full features page has been revealed which lists the following additions to Internet Explorer:

* Activities
* WebSlices
* Favorites Bar
* Automatic Crash Recovery
* Improved Phishing Filter

Activities allow users to lookup/send information in a right-click contextual menu, such as retrieving an address map from Windows Live Maps, submitting a story to Digg, sharing a page on Facebook etc. WebSlices allows users to crop a specific area section of a site and bookmark it. Improvements have been made to the phishing filter which continues to block known Phishing sites and now blocks sites known to contain malicious software that could harm users’ computer or steal their information.

Perhaps one of the best new features is Automatic Crash Recovery which recovers your tabs if your browser crashes. It is widely expected that Microsoft will release the first beta of Internet Explorer 8 at this years Mix 08 which begins today.

Update: The download is now live and can be installed on Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, Server 2008/2003

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...ss/Install.htm

[Zach]

Another version of a browser that is a piece of shit and will never work right because they can't be assed to follow standards.. Though I hear this version will actually be in standards-compliance mode by default, through some grace of god..

Still.. automatic crash recovery? Firefox has been doing that for a while now.. Just another reason not to switch.

[Jale]

Firefox, Opera, etc > Internet Explorer.

[Alexander_13]

I agree fire fox is better lol i had issue with ie6 with the system 32 drivers such as mshtml.dll or urlmon.dll so i change a month ago to fire fox and i'm so happy so fast never again internet explorer further versions

[Jale]

Firefox is very customizable and it's very powerful. That's why I like it.

The only problem is memory consumption, but it's nothing when you have at least 512 MB of RAM.

[Mavtak]

I agree fire fox is better lol i had issue with ie6 with the system 32 drivers such as mshtml.dll or urlmon.dll so i change a month ago to fire fox and i'm so happy so fast never again internet explorer further versions

Well it's your own fault! IE6 is over a year depreciated.

I think IE 8 will be very good for the internet. The only problem is that adoption will be even slower than IE7. Right now, after IE7 being out for more than a year, still half of IE users are sill on IE6. Even fewer IE users will want to upgrade to IE 8 because on IE 8 suddenly a lot of web pages designed for IE 6 will deliver the same "special IE" code to IE8, only now IE8 will render it by standards, and therefore produce a page that doesn't look right. In short, IE8 will break a lot of pages. On the bright side at least this time it will be the web developer's fault and not IE's.

[Hrothgar]

Better internet explorer only means one thing to me. Means the browser I HAVE to use when on campus will be a little less shitty. Every other circumstance I'm with my good ol' pal the flaming fox.

[Zach]

Well it's your own fault! IE6 is over a year depreciated.

I think IE 8 will be very good for the internet. The only problem is that adoption will be even slower than IE7. Right now, after IE7 being out for more than a year, still half of IE users are sill on IE6. Even fewer IE users will want to upgrade to IE 8 because on IE 8 suddenly a lot of web pages designed for IE 6 will deliver the same "special IE" code to IE8, only now IE8 will render it by standards, and therefore produce a page that doesn't look right. In short, IE8 will break a lot of pages. On the bright side at least this time it will be the web developer's fault and not IE's.

I'm not sure sure about that.. If anything all the people who made those sites have to do is use a tag or flag that tells IE8 to render it the old way.. Which is what they idiotically did before if I remember right... A tag to USE standards compliance instead of on by default??

This is a company that hires geniuses

[Alexander_13]

Well it's your own fault! IE6 is over a year depreciated.

I think IE 8 will be very good for the internet. The only problem is that adoption will be even slower than IE7. Right now, after IE7 being out for more than a year, still half of IE users are sill on IE6. Even fewer IE users will want to upgrade to IE 8 because on IE 8 suddenly a lot of web pages designed for IE 6 will deliver the same "special IE" code to IE8, only now IE8 will render it by standards, and therefore produce a page that doesn't look right. In short, IE8 will break a lot of pages. On the bright side at least this time it will be the web developer's fault and not IE's.

I use to use IE6 cuz i had an old pc now with the new one fire fox is great and now i have problems with ie6 with system 32 drivers so i change to fire fox

[leon_belmont]

Even if IE goes to version 1000 that still just like Zach says : A piece of shit!

Firefox is forward a million years confronting the two browsers.