Microsoft finally released the final version of Internet Explorer 8 to continue the web browser war. This latest version brings a number of new user-friendly features, intended to make browsing the internet more convenient, fast and secure. Internet Explorer 8 is also the latest challenge to its main rival, Mozilla Firefox for the quest of web browser battle.
There are number of security features has been added to Internet Explorer 8 such as protection against installing malicious Active-X controls, cross-site scripting attacks, increased protection against malware, and click-jacking. To secure browsing activities, Microsoft has added InPrivate browsing mode that keep no history of user activities.
The user interface in Internet Explorer has been significantly improved, make web browsing more convenient, faster and more organized. The features such as ability to recommend sites, a new visual search, and group color-coded browser tabs are welcomed additions, especially to anyone that use the internet frequently.
The two most important additions to Internet Explorer 8 are probably Accelerators and Web Slices. Accelerators are built-in tools to let user translate text, search or handle mapping inside through window inside the working browser window. Web Slices let users put a small portion of busy web page to their favorite bar and keep it updated, such as bidding activities.
One other significant feature in IE8 is standards support. Standards supports has been an issue with the Internet Explorer browser (especially between IE6 and IE7), causing web developer to develop multiple versions of their website so it will run correctly in Internet Explorer and other browsers. Internet Explorer 8 includes both a standards browsing mode and a legacy browsing mode, allowing Microsoft to keep their own standards while allowing IE8 to show all sites correctly.
You can view all other significant enhancement of Internet Explorer 8 in my previous post - Web Browser War Continue - Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2
Internet Explorer 8 is now available in 25 languages for Windows Vista, XP and Windows Server. However, Internet Explorer 8 won’t be available for the Mac.
Internet Explorer 8 Official Web Page
Download Internet Explorer 8: XP | Vista 32-bit
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2 Comments Received
April 27th, 2009 @ 10:28 PM
Microsoft, we were warned to not download it until Paragon, our Multiple Listing Service gave us the go ahead. It seems it can cause some serious problems at this time
May 11th, 2009 @ 8:14 AM
This sounds better. A lot of people complained on IE6 so everyone is hoping this is so much better. thanks for the post.
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