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Browser War :: IE8 (beta-II) on the way to Wipe out Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, Watch Out!
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| Friday, December 26, 2008
| Vishnu Ghimire
Posted on 12/29/2008 8:48:24 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Overview
The first beta release of IE8, which was demonstrated at the MIX08 conference, contained many new features, including WebSlices and Activities. In the second beta release, Activities were renamed to Accelerators.
- Added features
Some of the features and changes for the Beta 2 compared to Beta 1
InPrivate
Delete Browsing History
Search Suggestions
User Preference Protection
Caret Browsing
Accelerators (previously known as Activities)
Web Slices (previously known as WebSlices)
Suggested Sites
Tab Color Grouping
Automatic Crash Recovery
SmartScreen Filter (Known as Safety Filter in Beta 1)
Tab isolation (tabs spread over separate operating system processes)
- Removed features
Inline AutoComplete
The option to delete files and settings stored by addons or ActiveX controls.
CSS Expressions are no longer supported in Internet Explorer 8 Standards mode. Accelerators
·Accelerators are a contextual feature used to quickly access a service from any webpage. It is common for users to copy and paste content from one webpage to another, and accelerators simplify this process.Accelerators allow users to find information without leaving the current webpage. For example, to determine the location of a specific restaurant, a user will select the restaurant's address, generating an in-place view of the map. Clicking the view will open a full webpage that includes additional information from the mapping service.Browser War
Mozilla's second alpha of Firefox 3.1 is upping the ante in the next-generation browser battle. So how do the main contenders stack up so far now? One thing's for sure, the Firefox team has taken note of Google's recent Chrome release and worked hard to make sure its offering can hold its own. Mozilla had already claimed its 3.1 version could outperform Chrome when it comes to speed (and most independent tests show it at least tying). Now, the engineers have incorporated Chrome-initiated options such as the ability to drag and drop tabs in and out of browser windows.
The second alpha release also adds support for the HTML 5 video tag, which gives Web developers expanded options for embedding video within a page. Don't forget, too, that Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 -- released at the end of August and quickly eclipsed by Chrome's introduction -- is also vying for a piece of the pie.
TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: browser; computer; google; hitech; internet; microsoft; mozilla; tech
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To: ShadowAce
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Removed features Inline AutoCompleteThank you!
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posted on
12/29/2008 8:49:49 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(I hate Illinois Marxists)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Sounds like more bloatware.
If you were to count the lost productivity in trying to get Office 2007 to do even the simplest things and Vista to do anything at all, it is probably in the millions of man hours — not counting the time waiting for that crap to load, much less do something.
4
posted on
12/29/2008 8:52:26 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Der neuen Fuhrer: AKA the Murdering Messiah: Keep your powder dry, folks)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Isn’t Chrome a data mining tool for Google?
5
posted on
12/29/2008 8:52:46 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Chrome is by far the worst browser I ever used.
6
posted on
12/29/2008 8:53:08 AM PST
by
Red in Blue PA
(Guns don't kill people; abortion clinics do.)
To: freedumb2003
I have Vista on my laptop, and I have not had even one problem.
There were problems in the beginning, but now? I think not.
7
posted on
12/29/2008 8:54:10 AM PST
by
Red in Blue PA
(Guns don't kill people; abortion clinics do.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
You couldn’t pay me to use an msoft browser.
8
posted on
12/29/2008 8:56:24 AM PST
by
wendy1946
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I totally uninstalled Firefox an hour ago and reinstalled it. It had been crashing 4-5 times a day for the past few months. Not sure why.
To: dfwgator
Removed features Inline AutoComplete You could turn off that feature at any time.
Click Tools->Internet Options->Advanced
Then remove the check mark by inline autocomplete
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posted on
12/29/2008 8:56:42 AM PST
by
ETL
(Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
To: Red in Blue PA
Vista has a lot of bugs still — I have it on one of our laptops and our desktop.
Bloatware.
12
posted on
12/29/2008 8:57:00 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Der neuen Fuhrer: AKA the Murdering Messiah: Keep your powder dry, folks)
To: library user
I totally uninstalled Firefox an hour ago and reinstalled it. It had been crashing 4-5 times a day for the past few months. Not sure why. Strange -- it has been solid as a rock for me for years.
13
posted on
12/29/2008 8:57:44 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Der neuen Fuhrer: AKA the Murdering Messiah: Keep your powder dry, folks)
To: Red in Blue PA
What are the thoughts on Mozilla in FR land?
14
posted on
12/29/2008 8:59:28 AM PST
by
zerosix
(native sunflower)
To: freedumb2003
No argument that it is bloated. That is what MS specializes in. However, the notion that it is a feeble OS is simply a myth which was started (rightfully so) when it came out, but has not abated even though Vista now runs near flawlessly.
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posted on
12/29/2008 8:59:30 AM PST
by
Red in Blue PA
(Guns don't kill people; abortion clinics do.)
To: zerosix
I like Mozilla, but I still use IE 99% of the time. When MS finally gets something right, it is hard to beat em, as has been the case with IE.
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posted on
12/29/2008 9:00:25 AM PST
by
Red in Blue PA
(Guns don't kill people; abortion clinics do.)
To: freedumb2003
If you were to count the lost productivity in trying to get Office 2007 to do even the simplest things... MS had the best thing in the world on its side: 10 years of users being trained in their product and nobody else's. So what do they do? Change it completely! Brilliant! I can't count the times I've been in a meeting going over a document with someone using Office 2007 and them saying "Umm, I can't find the Bold button anymore" and sitting there while we go through multiple menus to figure out that what used to be a single click is now three or four (after you figure out how to do it). A room full of people .... looking for a button ... that used to be on the main tool bar. How much did that cost?
17
posted on
12/29/2008 9:00:50 AM PST
by
pepsi_junkie
(Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
To: Rebelbase
Yes. Chrome is Google spyware.
18
posted on
12/29/2008 9:00:56 AM PST
by
LiberConservative
("We gonna get PAID!" - Obama voter)
To: wendy1946
Re: You couldnt pay me to use an msoft browser.
Try Chrome if you want endless crashes.
IE is very stable, even compared to Firefox.
19
posted on
12/29/2008 9:01:23 AM PST
by
Red in Blue PA
(Guns don't kill people; abortion clinics do.)
To: zerosix
I gave up on IE a year ago and went to Firefox. However i agree with the post above that mine has been crashing a lot lately. I am not ready to abandon it yet.
20
posted on
12/29/2008 9:02:16 AM PST
by
carjic
(I would crawl over a mile of "Broken Glass" to vote for Palin!!!)
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