Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2

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I have Beta 1 installed, and with Beta 2 you must uninstall B1 before installing it. Thing is, I have (apparently) no way of uninstalling B1...it isn't anywhere that I can find! Ugh. I'm on Vista 64 btw. Odd.

Make sure that the you click on the "View Installed Updates" link

How did you do that?

Right click on the blue background in the menu bar, customize....

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darkmanx21

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Yeah, this is a lot faster than 7 on my machine. I always noticed that when opening a new tab before it would kind of stall. Now it's instant. The startup is faster almost immediate. Some sites are not working well. Facebook reverts back to the old one, but it opens when I click the Compatability Mode button it works fine. The colors tabs are useful I see when you CTRL+click on links. Easier to go back to if you open 4 or 5 tabs at once.

I think a very positive step in the right direction. Even the banking sites work. Nice. This should get faster by final release and then hopefully all the final kinks are out.

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Doli

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I cant uninstall IE8 b1 from my Vista PC. I keep getting "An error has occured. Not all of the updates were successfully uninstalled"?

I searched the best I could on Google and a few people have the same error but no fix. Anyone here have a clue at what is going wrong?

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I'm completely impressed with the UI improvements (coloured tab groups are awesome), and I pretty much dropped my jaw when I opened the developer utility (I never thought I'd see that in Internet Explorer!).

My only real complaint is that the scrolling is slower/choppier than ever -- particularly using IE8 native mode (compat mode when it's available isn't as bad). My favourite feature in Opera is the butter-smooth scrolling, and I'd love to see IE approach that. With hopefully at least one release candidate left before the final, there's definately still time! :yes:

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I pretty much dropped my jaw when I opened the developer utility (I never thought I'd see that in Internet Explorer!).

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.

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The colored tabs are neat. It seems it uses a green for "safe", red for possibly dangerous and yellow for in between. I assume this is for popups. So if you see a red tab pop up, be careful. A really neat idea, I think. Now how they determine the safety level, I dunno yet. Love the dev tools. Speed and memory usage are good. There's some bugs with google, only showing the first two or three results. Click one, hit back and they are all shown. Also, problems with drop down menus on some sites don't work at all. Pretty good so far. So much better than beta 1. There's always Firefox 3 if I have issues, but so far it's working nicely.

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Yeah I've been running IE8 beta 2 builds for a while now, I'm a big fan :)

They've really done a ton with this release. Awesome UI features, much better perf, and the developer features are pretty sweet.

Some tweaking still left to do?

Creating a new tab - 'Connecting...' for too long IMO

Smooth scrolling - Not working?

Autocomplete Address Bar - Can I choose to have the results from Favorites first?

Smart Screen filtering is a good idea. But how do I report sites to Microsoft that are not safe or block them myself?

How would I switch from tab to tab also?

Can you help?

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EduardValencia

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I'm really impressed

-Color tabs

-Very complete CSS 2.1 support

-Inprivate browsing is simply amazing!

-UI is a bit more sleek

Yeah I've been running IE8 beta 2 builds for a while now, I'm a big fan :)

They've really done a ton with this release. Awesome UI features, much better perf, and the developer features are pretty sweet.

Damn you! :p nice working for Microsoft!

The colored tabs are neat. It seems it uses a green for "safe", red for possibly dangerous and yellow for in between. I assume this is for popups. So if you see a red tab pop up, be careful. A really neat idea, I think. Now how they determine the safety level, I dunno yet. Love the dev tools. Speed and memory usage are good. There's some bugs with google, only showing the first two or three results. Click one, hit back and they are all shown. Also, problems with drop down menus on some sites don't work at all. Pretty good so far. So much better than beta 1. There's always Firefox 3 if I have issues, but so far it's working nicely.

Coloured tabs are for distinguishing each site,with their respective sublinks or poups opened,they are grouped in colors.

Pretty nice feature

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The colored tabs are neat. It seems it uses a green for "safe", red for possibly dangerous and yellow for in between. I assume this is for popups. So if you see a red tab pop up, be careful. A really neat idea, I think.

Actually that is not correct. The tab colors represent tabs that were opened from other tabs (and thus are considered part of the same "task").

People do seem to have varying interpretations of it and I think the IE team is reviewing ways to help with that.

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