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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: BurbankKarl
So what is your solution for keeping malware off the computer?
To: ETL
course, the article does say changes in beta 2 from beta 1
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posted on
12/29/2008 10:03:32 AM PST
by
stylin19a
( Real Men don't declare unplayable lies)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
And it will work as well as any of the other IE junk does. Be sure to load it up with Vista to keep you really happy
To: Red in Blue PA
Funny I’ve been using Chrome for a few weeks and like is speed. Not many other features but it loads very fast.
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posted on
12/29/2008 10:05:37 AM PST
by
MilspecRob
(Most people don't act stupid, they really are.)
To: library user
I don’t run Norton and haven’t for a couple of years.
But, I still got emails that they were going to charge my credit card for the next sign up.
I was so frustrated with it, I decided to call the service center.
I talked to a Brett in India. Ha! after 21 minutes on hold.
He evidently erased the card and I am now free of Norton. Whew!
65
posted on
12/29/2008 10:05:40 AM PST
by
LadyPilgrim
((Lifted up was He to die; It is finished was His cry; Hallelujah what a Savior!!!!!! ))
To: reg45
Scrolling speed through a page has nothing at all to do with the browser engine. It has more to do with your hand speed than anything else. Different programs have different “lengths” of a single tick on the mouse wheel. “Speed” in a browser is determined by many different things. One of those is how much bandwidth the browser will allow at any one time. FF is by far the superior browser because you can edit such things as this.
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posted on
12/29/2008 10:06:48 AM PST
by
numberonepal
(Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
To: Red in Blue PA
And some of the major problems were due to Nvidia’s drivers not a Microsoft created issue.
67
posted on
12/29/2008 10:07:40 AM PST
by
edge10
(Obama lied, babies died!)
To: al baby
mine crashs daily but comes right backYou must have a lot of this then.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Where is spell check? Oh well 3rd party is still available.
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posted on
12/29/2008 10:08:12 AM PST
by
edge10
(Obama lied, babies died!)
To: MilspecRob
I used it when it first came out.....worst browser I ever used....crashed every (100% of the) time.
Would not touch it again if you paid me.
70
posted on
12/29/2008 10:08:29 AM PST
by
Red in Blue PA
(Guns don't kill people; abortion clinics do.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
To: numberonepal; Big_Monkey; carjic
There is a virus (a nasty one) associated with GreaseMonkey. Un-install immediately.Actually it's not GreaseMonkey itself, it's something that masquerades as GreaseMonkey.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Any of you use Opera?
Just curious...
polly
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posted on
12/29/2008 10:14:00 AM PST
by
pollywog
(I will lift mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help. My help comes from the Lord...Ps 121)
To: pollywog
I tried Opera a few years ago and never really got hooked on it, like I did w/ Firefox.
To: stylin19a; All
The person I was replying to apparently has the feature on their current IE browser but doesn't want it. I believe my instructions for turning it off were correct for at least most existing versions of IE. I have IE-7 at the moment.
For anyone else interested, the feature is called 'inline AutoComplete'. It sort of reads your mind and starts filling in the rest of the url for you. I too thought it was annoying and unnecessary and turned it off.
Again, to do so, click Tools->Internet Options->Advanced.
Then remove the check mark beside "Use Inline AutoComplete".
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posted on
12/29/2008 10:17:29 AM PST
by
ETL
(Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
To: numberonepal
I'm in the IT industry and you wouldn't believe the folks who actually use the mouse to cut and paste text (rather than use Ctrl + X, C, V).You've got to be kidding. Using the mouse with right clicks to cut, paste and copy is a lot easier. I can drink my tea while doing that.
76
posted on
12/29/2008 10:23:04 AM PST
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: zerosix
"What are the thoughts on Mozilla in FR land?"
Previously, I found Mozilla's Netscape browser to be buggy and unusable. I always uninstalled within a few days of installing.
Firefox, on the other hand, is simply stellar. It is my default browser now on my Windows, Linux and Mac machines. Firefox's extensibility is one reason-- I can use Foxmarks to keep all my bookmarks in sync, NoScript to enhance security and privacy, and Zotero to assist me in my research work. But moreover, of all the browsers I use (IE, Firefox, Safari...) it is the most stable when I load up a few dozen tabs. IE is hopeless in that regard; more than a handful of tabs can crash it. And IE is a porous to malware, and much slower than Firefox (or Safari).
Firefox is fast and solid and flexible and easy to use. I highly, highly recommend it.
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posted on
12/29/2008 10:26:42 AM PST
by
RightOnTheLeftCoast
([In the primaries, vote "FOR". In the general, vote "AGAINST". ...See? Easy.])
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
What I am using is Mozilla Firefox (not just Mozilla). Was using Netscape and others previously but had lots of problems. None so far with Firefox. Thanks for your comments.
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posted on
12/29/2008 10:29:21 AM PST
by
zerosix
(native sunflower)
To: zerosix
Mozilla is the organization, Firefox is the product. And I'm mystified by all the comments on this thread regarding crashes, links not working, etc. I've been using Firefox since trying version 2 point something a couple years ago. Never a problem; it just keeps getting better and faster. I can't recall a single crash on any of my platforms, and I use browsers heavily in my work. Not to mention my Freeping!
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posted on
12/29/2008 10:34:29 AM PST
by
RightOnTheLeftCoast
([In the primaries, vote "FOR". In the general, vote "AGAINST". ...See? Easy.])
To: PreciousLiberty
Without that, Microsoft and Aieeee8 are losing the fastest growing personal computer segment. ;-) Probably not.
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posted on
12/29/2008 10:38:36 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Der neuen Fuhrer: AKA the Murdering Messiah: Keep your powder dry, folks)
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