IE 8 Beta

[Barney Fife]

Download HERE.
Let us know what you did and didn't find.

[edit] Looks and quacks a whole lot like FF. Hmmm! My Google search bar also keeps crashing on me, whenever I try and use it.
Unlike before: When you have more than one IE open, and for some reason, one of the IE becomes unstable and crashes, and you see Windows Error telling you " F!@#ck yourself" instead of all of your IE sessions disappearing; this time only the one that crashed and caused the problem will close, the rest will stay with you (Which is pretty cool). When you open back up (Launch) then one that crashed, you will have the option to either continue from where it had crashed or open a new session. (Which is also FF type coolness).
Also of you highlight any text in IE, you'll have a bubble dialog which is called "Activities" You can either blog it, define with Encarta, search in Google, send as an email, Etc.
Also, let's say that you have like 20 tabs open (I don't know why, don't ask me. Maybe you're a pervert and you like porn or something), there is an option which is called (Quick Tab) you press that and all the 20 tabs you have opened will show in single window as 20 images, which you can choose from, and click it, instead of the old Alt+Tab.
Also IE 8 seems to be loading and exiting lot faster than IE7.

 

[PimpinPenguin]

Why would you want to use a beta version of IE? Isn't the final not buggy enough without using a beta version.

 

[Barney Fife]

Why would you want to use a beta version of IE? Isn't the final not buggy enough without using a beta version.

Actually no: You can say, its heavy and flaws like nobody business, but less buggy than FF.
IMHO, FF and opera crash way more than IE.
You may see people complaining about FF not working right than IE.

 

[Xendance]

(For Web Developers and Designers)

meh, I ain't gonna bother.

 

[Fliko]

Actually no: You can say, its heavy and flaws like nobody business, but less buggy than FF.
IMHO, FF and opera crash way more than IE.
You may see people complaining about FF not working right than IE.

I can't recall a time Opera has crashed on me, FF is another story though, a totally different story.

 

[AtomicSpark]

Lol fanboys. A good thing about IE 8 is that Microsoft is finally adopting some web standards. Hopefully soon websites will look and act the same for every browser. Of course Microsoft, being Microsoft, is letting websites have a way of "opting-out" of the standard base and using the ugly hacky way. Bastards.

 

[Iced_Eagle]

Lol fanboys. A good thing about IE 8 is that Microsoft is finally adopting some web standards. Hopefully soon websites will look and act the same for every browser. Of course Microsoft, being Microsoft, is letting websites have a way of "opting-out" of the standard base and using the ugly hacky way. Bastards.

It was either allow this, or standards mode rendering wouldn't have been the default.

Plus, MS self admitedly knows that with IE they broke a lot of the internet, and that's what they're going to be working on fixing now.

Oh, and why download beta1? It's for developers. Beta2 is due out sometime this month (I'm hoping for this week) and is the consumer orientated beta.

 

[AtomicSpark]

Yeah I know. I just have a feeling a lot of those IE only websites will use it. I suppose it's better then nothing. :\

What's really sad is a few of them break only because they're detecting browser agents for layout. Browser agents are no longer reliable and people shouldn't use them for more then statistics.

 

[Barney Fife]

Oh, and why download beta1? It's for developers. Beta2 is due out sometime this month (I'm hoping for this week) and is the consumer orientated beta.

Oh! I'm Sorry, I thought we had level 1 developers up in here, but you rather call yourselves "Consumers" that's fine too.

 

[Asus]

I don't want level 1 developer headaches...let alone on my home PC.
And I'm betting most FF crashes are from 3rd party plugins.

 

[VirusType2]

I think FF crashed like once or twice for me in almost 3 years of using it. It wasn't even FF's fault.

 

[OmegaX]

I think FF crashed like once or twice for me in almost 3 years of using it. It wasn't even FF's fault.

Yeah... I've had it crash at most 3 times in as many years.

 

[Barney Fife]

Lol fanboys.

lol, I agree now.

 

[xcellerate]

there is an option which is called (Quick Tab) you press that and all the 20 tabs you have opened will show in single window as 20 images, which you can choose from, and click it, instead of the old Alt+Tab.

IE7 does that also, press CTRL+Q.

 

[Barney Fife]

IE7 does that also, press CTRL+Q.

Oh! Crap. I missed that.
After all these years; now is the best time for you to tell me that. Right in the middle of my review. Your teacher must loved you, huh?

 

[Raziaar]

My firefox almost never crashes, ever. I don't remember the last time it did crash.

 

[Asus]

My firefox almost never crashes, ever. I don't remember the last time it did crash.

Same.

 

[Iced_Eagle]

I don't want level 1 developer headaches...let alone on my home PC.
And I'm betting most FF crashes are from 3rd party plugins.

In any browser, the crashes are almost due to third party extensions.

That's why for IE8, they finally fixed this so you have IE8 itself and all of its tabs as different processes. So if a plugin on a website causes a tab to crash, only that tab will crash out. It won't bring the entire browser with it. Likewise with third-party plugins, toolbars, etc... MS is seperating the program from anything which might crash.

Oh, and I've actually had FF crash on me quite a bit, and I think a lot of times it was due to crappy Flash... Adobe has been so flaky with the quality of it lately, especially as browsers keep advancing, Adobe is just slowly dragging Flash with it. I used the 10 beta, but unfortunately a lot of websites don't support it.

 

[PimpinPenguin]

That's why for IE8, they finally fixed this so you have IE8 itself and all of its tabs as different processes. So if a plugin on a website causes a tab to crash, only that tab will crash out. It won't bring the entire browser with it. Likewise with third-party plugins, toolbars, etc... MS is seperating the program from anything which might crash.

That's actually a great idea. I can't say how many times i've been on a website and the plugin fails or crashes and brings the whole browser down. Having just that tab crash is good, and i hope Firefox implements this as well.