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Internet Explorer
8 is Microsoft's
incredibly popular web browser.
Almost everyone has used some version of it, and you can be sure all websites
will support it.
The interface of Internet Explorer 8 hasn't changed that much compared to
older versions, except for one small detail; the menu bar is back and shows up
by default again. Besides that, everything else is in place: the address bar is
again on top of the interface, and Favorites are accessible via a drop-down
menu.
As for new features, Internet Explorer 8 includes two main new tools: one
is Accelerators (previously known as Activities), and the other is Web Slices.
The first one gives you direct access to various online services just by
right-clicking anywhere on the web page or on highlighted text. For instance,
you can look up a word, map an address or perform a search with those marked
words. The main drawback is that all these options use
Microsoft's Windows Live services which means that you're stuck with
them.
There are several new and
interesting features. Web Slices lets you save predefined sections of a Web page
for at-a-glance viewing. Instead of going to a traffic Web site for updates, the
latest commuting news comes to you. Similarly, Accelerators make repetitive
tasks one-click behaviors, for instance finding directions or blogging.
InPrivate browsing introduces a cache and history on-off switch, while related
tabs are color-coded and automatically reorganized as you open them. There's
also tab sandboxing, which means that when a tab crashes, IE itself won't, and
it even tries to resurrect the page that crashed.
There's a greater emphasis
on Web standards and security than before. The
SmartScreen and cross-site scripting
filters throw up a red warning page when you're about to visit an unsafe site.
There's also domain highlighting, which grays out the name of the URL you're
looking at except for the domain itself. This sounds simple, but effectively
draws attention to spoofed site URLs. There's also a compatibility button so
that sites designed specifically for IE 7 and earlier can still be viewed.
IE 8 lacks a default
"smart" location bar that many other browsers have, but you can search your
history and most visited pages from there. Also, the installation process still
requires a reboot--unimpressive, to say the least. Drawbacks aside, there's no
reason to not upgrade if you're an old fan of IE, and there's even a few things
in IE 8 for new users.
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