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Browser War: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Out
Techtree News Staff, Aug 28, 2008 1610 hrs ISTThe browser war is heating up with the recent launches of Firefox 3, Opera 9.52 and now IE 8. Mozilla Firefox's publisher calls IE 8 Beta 2 an attempt at "catching up".
"They're playing catch-up, but I'm glad they're playing," John Lilly, Chief Publisher of Mozilla, pretty much summed it up. He was referring to the release of Microsoft's latest browser, the Internet Explorer 8, a beta version of which was released yesterday. The browser war is heating up with the recent launches of Firefox 3, Opera 9.52 and now IE 8.
The latest beta version of Microsoft's browser comes with a host of new features and aims to give an indication of what to expect when the final version is released in due course.
Visually similar to IE 7, the latest version comes features including the "Porn Mode" which is called InPrivate. As reported earlier, this function disables the history and file-caching features of the browser, leaving no trace of your online activity on that computer. Other new features include an add-on called "Web Slice", which allows you to subscribe to certain portions of a website of your choice. There already are a host of web slices available here.
Then there is the Accelerator - another add-on that will enable users to search, map, and email contents of the web page they are on. That seems to be an indirect take on Google because the default search options for the search and map functions are Windows Live search and Live maps! With Internet Explorer still commanding a healthy 73% market share in the browser domain, these inclusions could be an attempt at thwarting Google's continuous foray into erstwhile Microsoft domains like spreadsheets and office software with Google Docs.
Security-wise, Active X controls have been made more flexible. With the new release, even users with non-administrative user accounts can install components.
To download the latest version, head to the downloads site.
The latest beta version of Microsoft's browser comes with a host of new features and aims to give an indication of what to expect when the final version is released in due course.
Visually similar to IE 7, the latest version comes features including the "Porn Mode" which is called InPrivate. As reported earlier, this function disables the history and file-caching features of the browser, leaving no trace of your online activity on that computer. Other new features include an add-on called "Web Slice", which allows you to subscribe to certain portions of a website of your choice. There already are a host of web slices available here.
Then there is the Accelerator - another add-on that will enable users to search, map, and email contents of the web page they are on. That seems to be an indirect take on Google because the default search options for the search and map functions are Windows Live search and Live maps! With Internet Explorer still commanding a healthy 73% market share in the browser domain, these inclusions could be an attempt at thwarting Google's continuous foray into erstwhile Microsoft domains like spreadsheets and office software with Google Docs.
Security-wise, Active X controls have been made more flexible. With the new release, even users with non-administrative user accounts can install components.
To download the latest version, head to the downloads site.
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