Thao Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Internet Explorer 8 - Beta 1 has finally been released by Microsoft! Try it for yourself, it will replace IE7, but in IE8 you can "emulate" IE7, or you can always uninstall. Please post any opinions you have! Download IE8: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/...ess/Install.htm --------------------------------------------------------------- New Features of IE8: Activities Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do. Activities typically involve two types of scenarios: "look up" information within a webpage or "send" web content to a web application. For example, a user is interested in a restaurant and wants to see the location of it. This is the form of a "look up" Activity where the user selects the address and views an in-place view of the map using his favorite map service. An example of a "send" Activity is a user reads an interesting article and wants to blog about a portion of the article. The user can select a portion of the article and uses the blog Activity. This navigates to the user’s blog site with the selection already available in the edit field. Activities are services that the user can install and manage. Users can install them from the Internet Explorer 8 Service Guide or through any website that advertises Activities. --------------------------------------------------------------- WebSlices WebSlices is a new feature for websites to connect to their users by subscribing to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave just like feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and notify the user of changes. Internet Explorer 8 Users can discover WebSlices within a webpage and add them to the Favorites bar, a dedicated row below the Address bar for easy access to links. Internet Explorer 8 subscribes to the webpage, detects changes in the WebSlice, and notifies the user of updates. Users can preview these updates directly from the Favorites bar and click-through to the website to get more information. --------------------------------------------------------------- Favorites Bar In Internet Explorer 7, the Links bar provided users with one-click access to their favorite sites. The Links bar has undergone a complete makeover for Internet Explorer 8. It has been renamed the Favorites bar to enable users to associate this bar as a place to put and easily access all their favorite web content such as links, feeds, WebSlices and even Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. A user can easily add a link to the Favorites bar by using the Add to Favorites button and selecting the Add to Favorites Bar option. --------------------------------------------------------------- Automatic Crash Recovery Automatic Crash Recovery (ACR) is a feature of Windows®Internet Explorer® 8 that can help to prevent the loss of work and productivity in the unlikely event of the browser crashing or hanging. The ACR feature takes advantage of the Loosely-Coupled Internet Explorer feature to provide new crash recovery capabilities, such as tab recovery, which will minimize interruptions to users’ browsing sessions. See Automatic Crash Recovery white paper for more information. --------------------------------------------------------------- Improved Phishing Filter Internet Explorer 7 introduced the Phishing Filter, a feature which helps warn users when they visit a Phishing site. Phishing sites spoof a trusted legitimate site, with the goal of stealing the user’s personal or financial information. For Internet Explorer 8, we are building on the success of the Phishing Filter with a more comprehensive feature called the "Safety Filter." For IT administrators, new Group Policy options are available to remove the user-override option and fully block access to known unsafe sites. --------------------------------------------------------------- Again, download available here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/...ess/Install.htm EDIT: To uninstall, make sure you have updates showing in your Add/Remove Programs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92430-internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
VyperX Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 but it is still a beta/..... it will suck anyways Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92430-internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/#findComment-663545 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrenbird Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 As far as IE goes, I like it, but it's still IE. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92430-internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/#findComment-664725 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayanami Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 I actually still haven't updated to IE 7 on XP MCE. This should be interesting... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92430-internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/#findComment-668066 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 IE7 wasn't nice on one of my XP installs but on my new Vista x64 it works fine. Haven't tried the IE8 though, not yet. I think I'll wait for the final release I'm waiting for Vista SP1 Final now Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92430-internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/#findComment-668295 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 I'm waiting for Vista SP1 Final now You know the final (RTM) has been out for about a month on BitTorrent, right? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92430-internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/#findComment-668307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 Firefox ftw Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92430-internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/#findComment-668320 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forceman Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 Firefox ftw Yep and Webslices sounds alot like webclips or Opera's widgets. Also looks like the same old Windows thing, notify the user of everything instead of just doing it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92430-internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/#findComment-668496 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 You know the final (RTM) has been out for about a month on BitTorrent, right? I wanna wait for the "official" release Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92430-internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/#findComment-668530 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 I wanna wait for the "official" release Why..? It's the same exact thing. I've been running SP1 x64 since it RTMed and I haven't noticed any problems with it yet.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92430-internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/#findComment-669470 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 WOW! just like Firefox/3.0b3 but with BUGS!!! SticMAN Internet Explorer 8 - Beta 1 has finally been released by Microsoft! Try it for yourself, it will replace IE7, but in IE8 you can "emulate" IE7, or you can always uninstall. Please post any opinions you have! Download IE8: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/...ess/Install.htm --------------------------------------------------------------- New Features of IE8: Activities BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH WebSlices BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH Favorites Bar BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH Automatic Crash Recovery BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH Improved Phishing Filter BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH Again, download available here: http://www.BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH.com/Install.htm EDIT: To uninstall, make sure you have updates showing in your Add/Remove Programs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92430-internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/#findComment-669484 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berzerker Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Too bad Safari/Opera/FireFox have had this stuff for ages. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92430-internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/#findComment-669533 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Why..? It's the same exact thing. I've been running SP1 x64 since it RTMed and I haven't noticed any problems with it yet.. PM me the torrent link then I can't find anything except for full slipstreamed images. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92430-internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/#findComment-669558 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 PM me the torrent link then I can't find anything except for full slipstreamed images. Look on TPB.. thats where I found it.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92430-internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/#findComment-669576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollcage Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 If you want SP1, you can also tweak a few registry settings and DL it straight through Windows Update. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92430-internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/#findComment-669665 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 rollcage, I've just downloaded it directly from the MS servers. All you have to do is sign up (for free) as a MS OEM Partner, and once you have completed the very long signup process, you can log in and download an image of the Vista SP1 DVD containing both x86 and x64 versions. Final RTM release build 1800 This is the second time I downloaded it. The first time, I had to use IE to sign up for the OEM thing so I downloaded it in IE too, 40% through the download it BSOD'd on me I hope that most of the bugs are fixed with SP1, gonna install it soon, excited Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92430-internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/#findComment-669899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Just installed it, installation went fine and no problems but it took much longer than I expected Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92430-internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/#findComment-669983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tejekion Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Well I hate IE7 so Imma try it just to get away from IE7. I just hope I'm not jumping out of the frying pan, and into the fire, which is usually the case with Microsoft products. That's why I'm using Safari, and sometimes Firefox now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92430-internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/#findComment-675965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Smart Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Yeah I was a Firefox supporter, but Safari 3.1 for Windows is so much faster... and nicer to look at. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92430-internet-explorer-8-beta-1-released/#findComment-676394 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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