Review: IE8 features good, but no need to switch
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Still, Microsoft should be applauded for trying.
Most notable in Microsoft’s free, Windows-only browser are tools called Accelerators, which are designed to better mirror how people use the Web these days. Accelerators help you share content and blend services from various sites.
You can install Accelerators written by Microsoft, Yahoo Inc., Google Inc., Facebook or any developer that wants to participate — no one needs permission from Microsoft.
IE8 also offers “Web Slices” to quickly alert users to updates on their eBay auctions, stock quotes, sports scores and other frequently viewed services. They appear on your favorites bar just like other bookmarks, but instead of static pages or text headlines, you get the latest photos and other goodies as well.
The new Microsoft browser also makes it easier to switch between search engines from the search box. And it offers a “private” mode during which IE8 doesn’t store the addresses of sites you visit or keep the small advertising data files called cookies.
But to use any of that, I’d have to give up one of my favorite things about Flock: the way it helps people share content and blend services.
Enjoy.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Real life comparison of Fire Fox to IE8
I have just installed Fire Fox on my PC after years of being and defending IE. IE 7 or 8 can not even compare to Fire Fox.
As someone who is flying around the internet all day I didn’t realize the amount of lost time spent with IE. It is so nice not to have to deal with system hangs or crashes any longer.
If I see the “report error screen” from IE one more time I was going to scream. I really like some of the features on IE but the fact that i no longer get a hung system or have to wait x amount of time for whatever IE is doing is great. Just to make sure I wasn’t wrong I switched back to IE for a day. Nope. Fire Fox is a better product. Microsoft get your act together or recruit some Fire Fox engineers.