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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: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Can’t see any reason to use IE. Firefox does it all. Except that when I went from 3.0.3 to 3.0.4 NONE of my streaming radio links will work. Been on the forums and still can’t get anyone to explain why. I wonder if 3.0.5 fixes that.
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posted on
12/29/2008 9:04:26 AM PST
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: zerosix
I use firefox 3.0.5
SOLID as a rock when used in conjunction with AVG virus protection.....
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posted on
12/29/2008 9:05:24 AM PST
by
OL Hickory
(Where is the America I knew as a boy?)
To: Red in Blue PA
Replacement coming...I just posted this:
First look at Windows 7 beta 1
But I am only using Vista on a new laptop I just bought....wanted to browse while outside of my computer den.
To: Red in Blue PA
Not sure I understand. You state you couldn’t be paid to use a Microsoft browser yet you say IE is stable compared to Firefox. Huh?
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posted on
12/29/2008 9:06:03 AM PST
by
bcsco
(Illinois politicians should be read their Miranda rights when sworn in to office...)
To: freedumb2003
Yup, solid as a rock for me since 2004, too. I think going from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 started the problem. I sent all the crash reports to the Mozilla Team, so hopefully they can make some sense/use out of them.
To: raybbr
Except that when I went from 3.0.3 to 3.0.4 NONE of my streaming radio links will work. Been on the forums and still cant get anyone to explain why. I wonder if 3.0.5 fixes that.Yup, my listen live links wouldn't work in the earlier 3 revisions. You should update to .5 and hopefully you'll be as lucky as me.
To: OL Hickory
That’s what I’m using currently.
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posted on
12/29/2008 9:06:58 AM PST
by
zerosix
(native sunflower)
To: freedumb2003
“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.”
Firefox has been crashing lately for me too after years of stability, but I still use it for most things. Since I went to 3.05 it’s been crashing less.
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posted on
12/29/2008 9:07:03 AM PST
by
devere
To: bcsco
Re: You state you couldnt be paid to use a Microsoft browser
I never said that.
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posted on
12/29/2008 9:08:23 AM PST
by
Red in Blue PA
(Guns don't kill people; abortion clinics do.)
To: raybbr
I’m still running 3.0....but am getting ready to put up Sabayon 4.0 which has a later version of Firefox....not sure which one though.
To: zerosix
What are the thoughts on Mozilla in FR land? Love it! Won't leave home without it. If I run across a machine that doesn't have it, I install it (if I can). The only add-on I use is "NoScript".
Of course I couldn't run Internet Exploder even if I wanted to. It doesn't do Linux, and I don't do Windows.
To: Red in Blue PA
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. I switched to Windows Mojave and love it. :)
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posted on
12/29/2008 9:09:17 AM PST
by
DYngbld
(Aspire to inspire before you expire)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Something Microsoft releasing to make Firefox obsolete? Won’t happen
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posted on
12/29/2008 9:09:38 AM PST
by
wastedyears
(In Canada, Santa says "Ho Ho, eh?")
To: Red in Blue PA
Sorry, I missed the “Re:”.
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posted on
12/29/2008 9:10:59 AM PST
by
bcsco
(Illinois politicians should be read their Miranda rights when sworn in to office...)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I have VISTA Home Premium and run Mozilla and have had nary a problem.
But that’s also because I unloaded Norton Symantec and use Avast.
Now, my puter isn’t crashing every other month!
Besides, AVAST is free and doesn’t eat up the memory on this laptop.
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
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posted on
12/29/2008 9:12:00 AM PST
by
LadyPilgrim
((Lifted up was He to die; It is finished was His cry; Hallelujah what a Savior!!!!!! ))
To: DYngbld
That is one of the oddest ad campaigns I have ever seen.
As if your average computer user wasn’t confused enough.
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posted on
12/29/2008 9:12:47 AM PST
by
Red in Blue PA
(Guns don't kill people; abortion clinics do.)
To: BurbankKarl
I haven’t even looked at Chrome,...did look at an interesting little Distro called gOS (Linux kernel) that had a lot of special interfaces to Google....but didn’t do anything for me.
To: LadyPilgrim
Thanks, have to check that out!!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
12/29/2008 9:19:04 AM PST
by
LadyPilgrim
((Lifted up was He to die; It is finished was His cry; Hallelujah what a Savior!!!!!! ))
To: LadyPilgrim
Does aVAST! still have that retro 80s ghetto-a$$ looking interface? I guess if it does its job it's good enough. I use
Avira, personally.
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