Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 - Released

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Hello there !

IE8 beta 2 was released yesterday and I am surprise there has been no threads about it yet on here. I installed it last night and I must say I am very impressed with it compared to how I felt with IE8 beta 1.

The performance has improved greatly. The new features are oustanding and I really don't see my loading up firefox for a while because this simply out does it.

There are some good videos here that you can watch that talk about the new features:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/int...ch-videos.aspx

Worth the watch IMO.

You can also read about them at the official IE8 blog here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/

Download IE8 Beta 2 here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/int...ide-sites.aspx

Post what you think .

Please however do not post if you are just going to flame IE or Microsoft.

Thanks

[Decode]

I might download it, however IE allways feels sort of clunkier (if you get what I mean) than firefox. I have IE8 beta 1 but most pages wern't viewable :S

[Recursion]

I saw it in my Microsoft BETA account thing, but I just CBA

[Lycan]

Downloaded Beta 1 ... wasn't really two impressed by them.. IE is just slowly turning into firefox... very few unique ideas.. although there were a few that caught my attension

didn't really think it was worth posting, referenced it in one of my posts a few days ago though


Annoyingly - it took me ages to find where the uninstall was for IE8! - under updates of course... whydidn't i think of looking there... oh i know because its a program and not an update for a preinstalled program

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Downloaded Beta 1 ... wasn't really two impressed by them.. IE is just slowly turning into firefox... very few unique ideas.. although there were a few that caught my attension

didn't really think it was worth posting, referenced it in one of my posts a few days ago though

No, I think they have a lot of new unique features now that come default with IE such as web slices, accelerators (previously called Activities), smart address bar (I know this exists in FF3), visual search bar (very useful!).

Plus they have private browsing and also have a feature where you can delete all cookies/history etc EXCEPT ones relating to sites in your favorites which IMO is very useful.

Like I said, they have also improved performance of the browser itself and even pages seem to load a lot faster for me now, same with scripts like the editor in vB.

Plus lots more.

[kk.]

download link please

[---MAD---]

Already in first post but here, http://www.microsoft.com/windows/int...ide-sites.aspx.

[FlyingJesus]

Currently downloading... lol my IE7 at the moment keeps getting random "cannot display" pages for some reason so maybe this'll be a bit more friendly, 'cause for some reason I just don't like Firefox

[e5]

Just getting it now Thanks.

FlyingJesus, mine too lol!!

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Do remember that this is a beta and like all betas, there are bound to be bugs and problems.