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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Is Out

The IE team blog has just posted that IE8b2 is now out. Lots of goodness in this new build:

We focused our work around three themes: everyday browsing (the things that real people do all the time), safety (the term most people use for what we’ve called ‘trustworthy’ in previous posts), and the platform (the focus of Beta 1, how developers around the world will build the next billion web pages and the next waves of great services).

Check out the IE team blog post as they go into so much more detail about what’s new.

Download links: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/worldwide-sites.aspx

SL

Comments

BV2312 wrote re: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Is Out
on Wed, Aug 27 2008 4:09 PM

I love the idea of grouping tabs so u can keep up with where a list of tabs came from

BV2312 wrote re: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Is Out
on Wed, Aug 27 2008 4:34 PM

Still 21/100 on acid test 3 :S

Ryan wrote re: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Is Out
on Wed, Aug 27 2008 5:27 PM

Is there a way to install IE8 alongside of IE7?

Ryan wrote re: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Is Out
on Wed, Aug 27 2008 5:28 PM

BTW I suggest using a loading icon from ajaxload.info to supplement the loading promt after submiting a comment.

Nick wrote re: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Is Out
on Wed, Aug 27 2008 6:05 PM

@ Ryan: Technically that isn't meant to popup, it's just ASP.net AJAX seems to like doing that, I will add a loading image tho :-)

ranpha wrote re: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Is Out
on Thu, Aug 28 2008 12:34 AM

The pros:-

- Tab grouping.

- Compatibility mode whitelisting (better than having to run IE7 mode all the time).

- search suggestions.

- and of course the inprivate browsing.

Cons:-

- Inprivate browsing spawns a new window, would have preferred that it spawned a new tab (after all, IE8 is now multithreaded right).

- switching search engines while a keyword is still inside the search box will cause IE to automatically search the keyword in the newly selected search engine.

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