I went against my instincts today for your benefit and delved into Internet Explorer 8. IE 8 will be the default browser in Windows 7, although their are rumors that it will be possible to disable or even uninstall it. IE 8 is a step up from IE 7, albeit a very small step. It still loads pages slower than Google Chrome and Firefox. The features that allow you to customize IE 8 are sparse and implemented by very few vendors. And with IE over market share dropping weekly, IE becomes less and less relevant. Nevertheless, I put together a short video giving you a quick tour of IE 8.
Incidentally, IE 8 will be released for Vista starting tomorrow. It isn’t a mandatory upgrade, and overall, I still highly recommend not using IE at all, and instead use Mozilla Firefox and/or Google Chrome.
- In the short video, I explore:
- Web Slices
- Accelerators
- Explain how to delete a single item from your address bar list (a much asked for tip, but I still don’t understand why)
- Tabs and a few other features as well
