Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2

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Grand Master

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Haha yeah, that was scary for the developer utility with the css validation and such. I sure that Microsoft will keep their promise of following the web standards to make our lives easier as developers to also ensure that a website is viewed like it should be regardless of the browser, that's crucial in my mind.

I saw that a bunch of you had trouble uninstalling Beta 1 or installing Beta 2. Now I'm wondering if it was a mistake by the time Beta 3 or whatever's next comes out.

They still need to increase support for other standards, CSS isn't the only important one (proper DOM support would be nice).

And JS speed is improved at least, still much slower than Firefox though (Firefox is all I have to compare against)

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Menu Bar and Favorites Bar. Where is the Feed Bar?

I'd like my Feeds to be visible on a Bar of some sort and not hidden away in Favorites, please?

Or what if I want some of my Favorites displayed in a Favorites Bar?

Figured it out. RSS Feeds and Favorites can be added to the Favorites Bar - Wish it was simpler. But (Y) nice.

So far IE8 is still not as flexible with customization as I would like. IMO

WTF!! :rofl:

Crazy stuff :rofl:

Who tested this software, was it beta testers or Microsoft internal testing?

Same question for features & implementation. Expected more from Microsoft.

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Microsoft really need to get out of the Internet Browser business... seriously.

Last time they did that we were stuck with Internet Explorer 6 entrenched for years. I'd much rather have active development, especially like now when they're aiming at better security, standards support, and even developing some rather novel features. I'm seriously quite glad to see Microsoft truly return to the Internet Browser business. :yes:

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Just discovered the power of 'InPrivate Browsing' Goodbye Advertising.

So how long before Microsoft get's sued or cancels this feature?

Good question.. LoL.. but I must say this is quite an improvement from B1... Can't wait for more!!!

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darkrats

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Downloaded and installed, and immediately went to the Lenovo website to get some information on a new computer, only to find the words are extremely small and unreadable! See attached image. Anyone experience this or know what's going on? Note: Even changing the font size doesn't change anything.

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Robbo

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Hmm I seem to have a problem but I can't seem to find any help on this.

If anyone could help I would be grateful.

When I right click on graphics the right-click menu is fine as you can see from this image

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Yet when I right click on a blank area or not on an image I get no text at all

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Thx for any help.

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Last time they did that we were stuck with Internet Explorer 6 entrenched for years. I'd much rather have active development, especially like now when they're aiming at better security, standards support, and even developing some rather novel features. I'm seriously quite glad to see Microsoft truly return to the Internet Browser business. :yes:

All of this to prevent the past from being repeated again. They should have started working on IE7 a bit earlier, but they wont let Firefox grow to a market share anywhere near what Netscape had back in the day.

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I can't see that happening, IE won the browser war by out-innovating Netscape (at a time where standards didn't matter), and the whole anti-trust thing.

But these days, IE is still really far behind, they can't start innovating until they catch up to other browsers (which are making leaps really fast)

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I'm enjoying some of the new features of IE8. The CSS rendering has improved immensely, and I hope that they continue to work on it, bringing it at least up to compete with current browsers. It would be nice to have a built-in way to filter out undesirable content.

I also hope that the IE team releases updates to IE more frequently with incremental bugfix/minor feature updates (8.1, 8.2, 8.3...) while still working on major releases (9, 10, etc).

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I can't see a point in the coloured tabs, I had every tab in one window green because I started a google search in one tab and re-used the tabs. I think it could be more useful if you could specify colours on a per domain basis (i.e. all google tabs are green, all MS tabs are yellow, etc.)

@ The_Decryptor

Maybe it's time Microsoft gave up on their browser and just donated money to Mozilla to badge Firefox as Microsoft's browser?

IMO Microsoft is becoming less relevant in the browser scene all the time.

I'd much rather see "Microsoft Internet Explorer: Powered by Presto" than a version of Firefox re-branded.

And MS is allergic to the GPL, so a closed source app would be a much better option for them.

Edit: And Opera being used as the base for a new version of IE would help their market share, and the web as a whole.

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