Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8

Post by TicMan @ 01:01pm 20/03/09 | 41 Comments

Microsoft have released the next version of IE to the public. They are boasting better performance and security and a number of new features like Private (porn) mode and "Accelerators" which just appears to be a bigger right click context menu. Here's a list of the major features:

Accelerators
Accelerators let you map directions, translate words, email your friends, and more in just a few mouse clicks.

Private Browsing
Browse the web without saving your history with Internet Explorer 8's InPrivate Browsing. Now you can shop for that special gift with confidence knowing your family won't accidentally find out or use a shared computer without leaving a trace.

Web Slices
Keep up with changes to the sites you care about most. Add a Web Slice and you won't have to go back to the same website again and again for updates on news, stock quotes, online auctions, weather, or even sports scores.

Search suggestions
Search smarter with detailed suggestions from your favorite search providers and browsing history. See visual previews and get suggested content topics while you type in the enhanced Instant Search Box.

SmartScreen Filter
New security features help to protect you against deceptive and malicious websites which can compromise your data, privacy and identity.

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Hogfather
Posted 01:04pm 20/3/09

Cool thanks.

"Compatibility mode" sounds interesting too!

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trog
Posted 01:07pm 20/3/09

edited a bit Ticcles, hope you don't mind

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thermite
Posted 01:11pm 20/3/09

So can a developer force the page into compatibility mode without having the user need to press that button?

edit: yes you can
< meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

last edited by thermite at 13:11:18 20/Mar/09

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mongie
Posted 01:08pm 20/3/09

Apparently, this might be the last true "IE". They may use Webkit like everyone else in the future.

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ara
Posted 01:17pm 20/3/09

Private Browsing
Browse the web without saving your history with Internet Explorer 8's InPrivate Browsing. Now you can shop for that special gift with confidence knowing your family won't accidentally find out or use a shared computer without leaving a trace.

haha, yeah that is what it will mainly get used for... right..

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Mantorok
Posted 01:22pm 20/3/09

They never said it was a gift for someone else.

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Taipan
Posted 01:23pm 20/3/09

exactly what I thought ara lol

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simul
Posted 01:25pm 20/3/09

The web developer in me just skipped a heartbeat :o Is it on windows update yet?

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infi
Posted 01:27pm 20/3/09

self-loving mode

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Raven
Posted 01:29pm 20/3/09

Wow, that was sudden.

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tequila
Posted 01:29pm 20/3/09

yeah I pitty the fools who have to go modify code now
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wait a second
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I'm one of those fools ;(

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TicMan
Posted 01:42pm 20/3/09

Just installed and seems to go allright - can notice some speed improvements and also that it's spawning an iexplore.exe process for each tab now, ala Chrome.

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fpot
Posted 01:43pm 20/3/09

hay guyz i think private mode is actually porn mode/?? the op made that joke but i am going to make the joke again LOL

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kos
Posted 02:09pm 20/3/09

LOLOLOL Private mode? MORE LIKE PORN MO... oh

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infi
Posted 02:25pm 20/3/09

more like Westpac explorer 8. The only website I use it for. gay f*****g Westpac.

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euphoria
Posted 02:35pm 20/3/09

more like Westpac explorer 8.

What you talkin 'bout willis? I use firefox for Westpac's internet banking.

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infi
Posted 03:10pm 20/3/09

who's willis? i haven't tried firefox lately, maybe they have recoded the site. do you use the business and corporate banking sites?

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TiT
Posted 04:04pm 20/3/09

westpac banking is the biggest piece of s*** ever, home, business and corporate.
Used all 3 and they are all s***.... i cant believe that for one of my accounts if i setup schedule transfer i will have to pay for the transaction but if i do it manually every 2 weeks i dont.... WTF? BTW spoken to westpac about this and they said that how it is?

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Jim
Posted 04:09pm 20/3/09

don't tell me you never watched different strokes infi

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ctd
Posted 04:17pm 20/3/09

PORN MODE

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mission
Posted 04:20pm 20/3/09

How good would that private browsing be for porn!

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3dee
Posted 04:26pm 20/3/09

that special ~~gift~~dildo

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ara
Posted 04:35pm 20/3/09

fpot, your constant angst amuses me. maybe you need someone, or even yourself, to buy you a gift with private mode already.

last edited by ara at 16:35:22 20/Mar/09

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Hogfather
Posted 05:00pm 20/3/09

By the way, props on editing this post into newsworthiness rather than creating a news post and then making this the disccusion one.

Maybe a bit more effort I guess but better for your users troggles.

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TicMan
Posted 05:07pm 20/3/09

I gave him a good starting post! He just tidied it up and made it into a nice package.

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infi
Posted 05:50pm 20/3/09

yes i did jim so :p

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Skitza
Posted 06:42pm 20/3/09

i cant believe that for one of my accounts if i setup schedule transfer i will have to pay for the transaction but if i do it manually every 2 weeks i dont.... WTF? BTW spoken to westpac about this and they said that how it is?

I know it's F*****G BULLS*** YOU SOB. How can you justify that.

OT: I'll take IE8 over FireFox.

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BatS***
Posted 06:42pm 20/3/09

I'll take your mum over your dad.

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Pinky
Posted 06:44pm 20/3/09

lol @ kos taking the piss out of fpot

Private mode is a must, seriously. If I have to work on one more comp of a user who doesn't know how to clear their f*****g cache...

Ignorence is bliss when it comes to who looks at what kind of pr0n.

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whoop
Posted 07:46pm 20/3/09

Private Browsing
Browse the web without saving your history with Internet Explorer 8's InPrivate Browsing. Now you can shop for that special gift with confidence knowing your family won't accidentally find out or use a shared computer without leaving a trace.

Be useful for internet banking I'd say, that & porn but with the great firewall of chinaustralia coming into effect there won't be any porn.

Private mode is a must, seriously. If I have to work on one more comp of a user who doesn't know how to clear their f*****g cache...

Ignorence is bliss when it comes to who looks at what kind of pr0n.

Here's an idea, don't go snooping through peoples browser cache?

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TicMan
Posted 07:50pm 20/3/09

Here's an idea, don't go snooping through peoples browser cache?

Srsly!@? When I was at WebC we had all sorts of open access to the PowerUp web cache, new server and the FTP bot .. there were so many goodies in there it was hard to believe.

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MatchFixer
Posted 08:01pm 20/3/09

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Pinky
Posted 08:43pm 20/3/09

Here's an idea, don't go snooping through peoples browser cache?

Nah, it's not that simple mate. You go to use Google and it comes up with what they've searched. Or you go to type in a URL directly and something shows up that you don't want to know.

It's amazing how little clue some people have about browsers.

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inept
Posted 09:23pm 20/3/09

Nah, it's not that simple mate. You go to use Google and it comes up with what they've searched. Or you go to type in a URL directly and something shows up that you don't want to know.

So true... We once discovered a new employees direct url input history on his laptop when he was sick one day and we needed to use it for something, by typing something starting with 'g', and a few gay porn (starting with g, obviously) sites came up in his history. Nothing against that if you're that way inclined, just not something either of us really wanted to see at work.

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whoop
Posted 09:33pm 20/3/09

jeez, harden the hell up. It's people like you who want this internet filter because your fragile minds are easily broken.

On a less troll-esque note, wasn't IE 7 supposedly the last version MS would make available to XP after which they'd make you use vista? Or was that windows media player?

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Farseeker
Posted 10:29pm 20/3/09

Microsoft switching to Webkit? Wow, I don't know how Steve Ballmer could stand for that; a project that Apple open-sourced in 2005, after starting off as a fork of KHTML.

http://log.valhallaisland.com/post/88046668

Surely Microsoft are ashamed of Internet Explorer. It�s getting whipped by browsers with 1/100th of Microsoft�s resources. It�s not getting beaten the way OS X beats Windows either, browser performance can be measured by real, tangible tests and IE8 comes last every time. It�s got to be embarrassing when the only people who use your software are either forced or ignorant.

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E.T.
Posted 11:52am 28/3/09

Anyone else running 64bit vista and now cant load Youtube vids with IE8?

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whoop
Posted 01:05pm 28/3/09

I'm not anymore but I recall there being no flash player available for the 64bit version of IE, use the 32bit version instead.

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Midda
Posted 12:09am 29/3/09

Anyone else running 64bit vista and now cant load Youtube vids with IE8?

Don't run 64bit IE. Adobe, for reasons nobody knows, haven't bothered making a 64bit version of Flash, thus making 64bit browsers somewhat useless. Run 32bit IE.

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Spook
Posted 04:36pm 07/4/09

ive finally given up on chrome, due to the 2 second youtube issue (if i get a few youtubes on a page, or just after some set time, youtubes will only play to the 2 second mark and pause, its the same reason i gave up on ff) and then chrome stopped downloading files completely

ill go queue up 5 torrents, 2 will download, the other 3 will sit there permanently downloadin for ever;

ie has always played youtubes and downloaded my files, so i thought id give ie8 a go;

god dman, it feels like im surfing the web in slow motion;

are there any tweaks for speeding it up?

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TicMan
Posted 05:59pm 07/4/09

Not that I know of, you should try out Chrome though - Google's next generation awesome browser.

FWIW: I have those same f*****g problems and it pisses me off, now I'm stuck with using IE for my linux ISOs and Youtube and then swapping to Chrome for everything else.

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