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Browser War :: IE8 (beta-II) on the way to Wipe out Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, Watch Out!
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| Friday, December 26, 2008
| Vishnu Ghimire
Posted on 12/29/2008 8:48:24 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Overview
The first beta release of IE8, which was demonstrated at the MIX08 conference, contained many new features, including WebSlices and Activities. In the second beta release, Activities were renamed to Accelerators.
- Added features
Some of the features and changes for the Beta 2 compared to Beta 1
InPrivate
Delete Browsing History
Search Suggestions
User Preference Protection
Caret Browsing
Accelerators (previously known as Activities)
Web Slices (previously known as WebSlices)
Suggested Sites
Tab Color Grouping
Automatic Crash Recovery
SmartScreen Filter (Known as Safety Filter in Beta 1)
Tab isolation (tabs spread over separate operating system processes)
- Removed features
Inline AutoComplete
The option to delete files and settings stored by addons or ActiveX controls.
CSS Expressions are no longer supported in Internet Explorer 8 Standards mode. Accelerators
·Accelerators are a contextual feature used to quickly access a service from any webpage. It is common for users to copy and paste content from one webpage to another, and accelerators simplify this process.Accelerators allow users to find information without leaving the current webpage. For example, to determine the location of a specific restaurant, a user will select the restaurant's address, generating an in-place view of the map. Clicking the view will open a full webpage that includes additional information from the mapping service.Browser War
Mozilla's second alpha of Firefox 3.1 is upping the ante in the next-generation browser battle. So how do the main contenders stack up so far now? One thing's for sure, the Firefox team has taken note of Google's recent Chrome release and worked hard to make sure its offering can hold its own. Mozilla had already claimed its 3.1 version could outperform Chrome when it comes to speed (and most independent tests show it at least tying). Now, the engineers have incorporated Chrome-initiated options such as the ability to drag and drop tabs in and out of browser windows.
The second alpha release also adds support for the HTML 5 video tag, which gives Web developers expanded options for embedding video within a page. Don't forget, too, that Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 -- released at the end of August and quickly eclipsed by Chrome's introduction -- is also vying for a piece of the pie.
TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: browser; computer; google; hitech; internet; microsoft; mozilla; tech
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To: library user
I only have 512MB of RAM. Firefox wants about a fifth of it. I think DOS 2.0 is the only O/S that will run comfortably in that amount of RAM.
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posted on
12/29/2008 10:39:30 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Der neuen Fuhrer: AKA the Murdering Messiah: Keep your powder dry, folks)
To: raybbr
You've got to be kidding.Well if your tea gets cold, then damn the efficient production. Are you English?
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posted on
12/29/2008 10:45:03 AM PST
by
numberonepal
(Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
To: library user
Actually it's not GreaseMonkey itselfGood point, but get rid of GreaseMonkey and re-install from the official Mozilla site if you MUST run the add-on. Besides, Fire Bug can accomplish many of the same goals as GreaseMonkey of you want to tinker with the way a designer intended the page to look.
83
posted on
12/29/2008 10:49:10 AM PST
by
numberonepal
(Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Run CP/M - nobody writes virii for CP/M
84
posted on
12/29/2008 10:59:22 AM PST
by
Tennessee_Bob
(They're illegal aliens, not immigrants - there is a difference!)
To: ETL
I knew exactly what you were saying...I was just adding my 2 cents regarding IE7 - where you can already delete browsing history.
I was just wondering if they took it out of Beta 1 and put it back in Beta 2...sorry i wasn’t clear.
85
posted on
12/29/2008 11:11:59 AM PST
by
stylin19a
( Real Men don't declare unplayable lies)
To: freedumb2003
OS/2 could run very well with that much memory....RIP though!
To: Tennessee_Bob
ROFL!...
One of those small Netbooks would handle that one nicely!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
OS/2 could run very well with that much memory....RIP though! They ruined it when they went to 2.0. 1.5 (IIRC) was super solid.
88
posted on
12/29/2008 11:16:14 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Der neuen Fuhrer: AKA the Murdering Messiah: Keep your powder dry, folks)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
High security levels on my browser, automatic updates to IE and my virus software (ESET)
To: library user
It had been crashing 4-5 times a day for the past few months. Not sure why.
Firefox frequently crashes (freezes solid) for me when or shortly after I close a tab in which I have played an Adobe Flash video. Fortunately the automatic session management save and restore feature works well, and I get more or less all my tabs restored correctly when I restart.
To: Red in Blue PA
PSSSSTTTTT!......
You're SUPPOSED to spew vile, hatred and disgust for all Microsoft products on these threads.
But I, like you have had great results from Vista and love the clean crisp graphics. The very worst browser I have had the misfortune to use is Firefox. The graphics and color is nothing short of cheesy. The format sucks also.
Note to all Microsoft Derangement Syndrome sufferers: (MSDS)
Try blowing into a paper bag repeatedly. It helps those dizzy spells caused by too much hyperventilation, immensely.
91
posted on
12/31/2008 7:03:45 AM PST
by
PSYCHO-FREEP
(WHAT? Where did my tag line go?)
To: PSYCHO-FREEP
Re: The very worst browser I have had the misfortune to use is Firefox.
Try Google Chrome. Never have I used a browser so poorly designed, and that is saying something as I have tried alot. Admittedly, I tried an early version, but every time I used it it crashed. EVERY TIME!
Would never touch it again.
And I agree with you regarding the MS Derangement syndrome. MS has its shortcomings, but eventually they get things right.
92
posted on
12/31/2008 7:07:17 AM PST
by
Red in Blue PA
(Guns don't kill people; abortion clinics do.)
To: Red in Blue PA
Yes they do. And I cannot forget that they were the ones mainly responsible for bringing us the PC revolution in the first place, because they stepped beyond the strangle hold Apple had on the market, and allowed the Asian computer explosion to take place. (IBM compatible)
We owe them far more respect than they get here.
93
posted on
12/31/2008 7:14:35 AM PST
by
PSYCHO-FREEP
(WHAT? Where did my tag line go?)
To: PSYCHO-FREEP
And nobody will ever bring up the fact that Steve Jobs got the idea for the GUI and the mouse from Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
Many (most?) of his ideas were not really his like the media portrays them to be.
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posted on
12/31/2008 7:24:42 AM PST
by
Red in Blue PA
(Guns don't kill people; abortion clinics do.)
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