I hate internet explorer.well you guys would know why. because there is a better browser called firefox now.its faster and easier than internet explorer which is used by most of the peoples around . any way different people will like different things .likewise is browsers. below is the cool new features in version 8 and links to download.


[Techbuzz] wrote a great article about this.

  • Automatic Crash Recovery: Automatic Crash Recovery (ACR) provides new crash recovering capabilities to IE 8. To minimize browsing interruption, ACR can recover any individual tab. This is probably the coolest features of all time! See the screenshot below.

Crash Recovery IE8

  • Improved Phishing Filter: IE 7’s phishing filters have been stepped up. It is now called as Safety filter because it not just stop phishing sites, but also blocks malicious sites which may harm your computer.

  • 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. Say for instance, a web page contains the address of a restaurant. You can select the address and view the map using your favorite map service. You’ll get a better idea, if you see the screenshot below:

Screen Activities IE8

  • 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. Users can add and preview these updates directly from the Favorites bar and click-through to the website to get more information.

WebSlice IE8

  • Favorites Bar: Links Bar has gone through a complete makeover and renamed as Favorites Bar. Users can put and easily access all their favorite web content such as links, feeds, WebSlices and even Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.



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