Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Download & Features Revealed
By Tom Warren, 05 March 2008 - 10:56 198 comments
Microsoft has put in place the preparations for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 ready for Mix 08.
A full features page has been revealed which lists the following additions to Internet Explorer:
- Activities
- WebSlices
- Favorites Bar
- Automatic Crash Recovery
- Improved Phishing Filter
Perhaps one of the best new features is Automatic Crash Recovery which recovers your tabs if your browser crashes. It is widely expected that Microsoft will release the first beta of Internet Explorer 8 at this years Mix 08 which begins today.
Update: The download is now live and can be installed on Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, Server 2008/2003
View: Internet Explorer 8 New Features
Download: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
Comments (198)
acedriver - 05 March 2008 - 11:08
the title should be "Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Features Revealed"
Neobond - 05 March 2008 - 11:13
What?
Unto Darkness - 05 March 2008 - 15:21
He probably meant that the emphasis should be on the 8.
+Anarkii - 05 March 2008 - 11:23
buggar it has the link to download but its not active yet, was hoping to try this out. Oh well! Thanks for the heads up anyway
PatrynXX - 05 March 2008 - 18:53
Link's active, just 1. doesn't work on Opera. and 2. takes a few reloads to get it. Gonna install it shortly. IE 7 always sucked in Vista. Would be nice to see something better.
Shoot, I'm guessing it doesn't want Vista SP 1 installed. Refuses to install says wrong service pack configuration. Figures.
PGHammer - 05 March 2008 - 19:35
If you have a version of SP1 *other* than the final, it won't install (I have the RTM SP1 installed, and IE 8b1 installed just fine). That could well be the issue.
XerXis - 05 March 2008 - 11:33
i wonder if "webslices" uses the rss/atom format or some format of their own. I hope it's just another way of presenting feeds
gigapixels - 05 March 2008 - 11:35
I'm definitely running this as soon as it's available. Firefox is my main browser, so I can handle if there are any bugs with the beta. I'd like to see how the rendering and other things have improved.
pippi123 - 05 March 2008 - 11:41
Whoa! Does this Webslice feature look great or what? I think I can close my Netvibes account when IE8 is out.
iSimx - 05 March 2008 - 11:42
the automatic crash recovery feature sounds great. I've had IE 7 crash on me so many times this feature will be useful
zivan56 - 06 March 2008 - 00:15
Yeah it does, I wonder when Firefox will have such a feature
+ViperAFK - 06 March 2008 - 01:25
Firefox 3 does have it.
Kreuger - 08 March 2008 - 14:40
If your Firefox 2 crashes, it askes if you want to restore. Close enough.
mrmckeb - 05 March 2008 - 11:57
Me want to download.
Hidr0 - 05 March 2008 - 11:58
teaser!... wheres the link to d/l?
The_Decryptor - 05 March 2008 - 12:01
Nice, MS is finally getting behind some open initiatives.
From what I can see Activities and WebSlices are both based around Microformats (and pre-existing ones as well)
That's excellent, IE team needs some praise.
Edit: Holy crap, data: URI support, CSS print rules support, Selector API support, this is great.
GP007 - 05 March 2008 - 13:22
Yeah, this really looks great. But one question I have, can you run IE8 and IE7 side by side? I wanna try out the beta but my main browser is IE7 and if IE8 is buggy and so on I don't wanna lose the stability I have with IE7.
+Northgrove - 05 March 2008 - 13:23
And about damn time too.
The_Decryptor - 05 March 2008 - 13:53
Nope, The newer version overwrite the older version.
Tikitiki - 05 March 2008 - 23:07
Nope, The newer version overwrite the older version.
It has a feature that allows you to emulate IE7