Micropoop recently released Internet Explorer 8 on March 19th; what do you think of this orgasmic thing M$oft did?
- Now you can quickly display websites that were designed for older browsers. If you're looking at a page and the text or images aren't lined up right, just use the new Compatibility View button next to the Refresh button on the Address Bar.
- You're just a few mouse clicks away from driving directions, word translation, sharing your web discoveries with friends and more. Accelerators help you do the things you do all the time without having to open up a new window. So you can speed through everyday browsing tasks, like getting a map to a business address or forwarding a link to a friend.
- Browse with more confidence knowing Internet Explorer 8 helps protect you from evolving online threats right out of the box. The new SmartScreen filter and other built-in security features help you stay safe by protecting against deceptive and malicious websites which can compromise your data, privacy, and identity.
Among the improvements and features you can expect:
- Improved security: NSS Labs released an independent study today showing IE8 beating competing web browsers Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Google Chrome and Opera in catching and blocking badware. IE8 caught 69 percent of malware, while Firefox 3.07 caught only 30 percent.
- InPrivate Browsing: A mode that keeps no trail of browsing history. I'm sure you can understand the utility of this mode.
- User Interface Improvements: Improvements include color-coded browser tabs, the ability to recommend sites, a "visual search feature" that allows users to see pictures of things like eBay and Amazon search results, auto-completion of searches and URLs, and a toolbar for searching within a page. Taking a tip from Google's "Chrome" browser, the new IE allows individual tabs to work in isolation, so one crashed site doesn't bring down the whole browser.
- Increased speed: Microsoft ran some tests and its product won! So Microsoft says its browser is generally faster than the competition... but it did say that difference comes down to "milliseconds."
- Standards support: Okay, this one is a little techy, but Microsoft's new browser contains both a "legacy browsing mode" and a standards browsing mode so web standards are supported, but non-standard sites still work, too. Best of both worlds? I guess it depends on how well it works! Anyway, developers tag their sites either "standard" or not, and the browser, apparently, does the rest, so you don't have to worry about it.
What are you gonna do? Are you gonna
download it, install it, restart, and forget about it like I did?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx)
Other Window versions (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/worldwide-sites.aspx)
Tour IE8 (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/tour/default.aspx)
Facts on browser performance (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/videos.aspx?mname=IE8_Perf_Test2)[/list][/list][/list][/list]
Firefox... X_X;;
I use a Mac so I really don't care about IE. It sounds nice though.
Quote from: Nayrman on March 21, 2009, 01:20:12 PM
Firefox... X_X;;
I use a Mac so I really don't care about IE. It sounds nice though.
it didn't crash like IE7 does when you start it up.
So I guess they improved something.
Other than that, it loads pages slower than Firefox does.
And it has colored tabs.
Quote from: Sync on March 21, 2009, 01:28:09 PM
Quote from: Nayrman on March 21, 2009, 01:20:12 PM
Firefox... X_X;;
I use a Mac so I really don't care about IE. It sounds nice though.
it didn't crash like IE7 does when you start it up.
So I guess they improved something.
Other than that, it loads pages slower than Firefox does.
And it has colored tabs.
I'll stick with my firefox thanks XD
Everything loads slower than firefox...(well most do anyway).
lawl
What the heck is Firefox 3.05? :U I thought it was 3.0.0.5...
Anyways, I'll try it out. I still won't use it for quite a few reasons, but they could at least compare to Firefox 3.1 beta 3... ;u
Quote from: Nayrman on March 21, 2009, 01:29:05 PM
Quote from: Sync on March 21, 2009, 01:28:09 PM
Quote from: Nayrman on March 21, 2009, 01:20:12 PM
Firefox... X_X;;
I use a Mac so I really don't care about IE. It sounds nice though.
it didn't crash like IE7 does when you start it up.
So I guess they improved something.
Other than that, it loads pages slower than Firefox does.
And it has colored tabs.
I'll stick with my firefox thanks XD
Everything loads slower than firefox...(well most do anyway).
1 word: FasterFox <3
Too bad it isn't compatible with the new version :'(
Until there's an Adblock Plus equivalent for IE, I'll never use it.
I'll stick with Opera.
When i get back home ill get it since I'm the only one here who uses IE. Don't know might like IE7 more
lol IE