Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 is out
To the advocates of Microsoft, Windows, and Internet Explorer; here comes the new Internet Explorer 8 and ready for beta testing. If you want to try out and test the new features of IE8, head over to www.microsoft.com and download the latest release.
This is only a beta version and is really intended for developers and bug testers, so if you want to try it, better expect a bugs along the product. But still, what’s the worst thing that could happen? Windows crashing? System lockup? Who cares, right?
Internet Explorer 8 can be installed on Microsoft Windows Vista® Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Vista, Windows XP® Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Server® 2008 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2).
New and “exciting” features to look for in the new IE8 are:
- Activities – contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.
- WebSlices – a new feature for websites to connect to their users by subscribing to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave just like feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and notify the user of changes.
- Favorites Bar – The Links bar has undergone a complete makeover for Internet Explorer 8. It has been renamed the Favorites bar to enable users to associate this bar as a place to put and easily access all their favorite web content such as links, feeds, WebSlices and even Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.
- Automatic Crash Recovery – (ACR) is a feature of Windows®Internet Explorer® 8 that can help to prevent the loss of work and productivity in the unlikely event of the browser crashing or hanging. The ACR feature takes advantage of the Loosely-Coupled Internet Explorer feature to provide new crash recovery capabilities, such as tab recovery, which will minimize interruptions to users’ browsing sessions.
- Improved Phishing Filter – The Safety Filter continues to block known Phishing sites and now blocks sites known to contain malicious software that could harm users’ computer or steal their information. Beyond this improved protection, the Safety Filter operates more quickly than ever before to ensure that users can browse both safely and quickly.
You can also import your bookmarks (favorites) from your ‘other’ favorite browser. If you import from Firefox and you have a lot of extensions (add-ons), you have to option to look-up the web for a similar add-ons for Internet Explorer 8. Some of the new features from IE8 can be seen at the Flock browser, the integrated services for social sites.
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