Comments on: IE8 Beta 2 Download – Colored Tabs, an “Awesome Bar”, and More http://cybernetnews.com/ie8-beta-2-download-colored-tabs-an-awesome-bar-and-more/ Technology News Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:26:55 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: jb http://cybernetnews.com/ie8-beta-2-download-colored-tabs-an-awesome-bar-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-142906 jb Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:09:31 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=15119#comment-142906 I find IE8 faster and much improved. I have tried all browsers and still find IE easier and as safe if not safer. I know FX users will totally disagree but I have tried every version of FX and find it slow and cumbersome. The battle between IE and FX is like PC to Apple. Some things fit better depending on the user. I have had no crashes and love all the new features. I think it always goes back to the user and how much you know about the web and your computer..... I find IE8 faster and much improved. I have tried all browsers and still find IE easier and as safe if not safer. I know FX users will totally disagree but I have tried every version of FX and find it slow and cumbersome. The battle between IE and FX is like PC to Apple. Some things fit better depending on the user. I have had no crashes and love all the new features. I think it always goes back to the user and how much you know about the web and your computer…..

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/ie8-beta-2-download-colored-tabs-an-awesome-bar-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-142829 Ryan Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:13:21 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=15119#comment-142829 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-142822" rel="nofollow">MetaMan wrote:</a><blockquote>Again, I know this is a beta, but isn’t it supposed to be for consumer use? You’d expect that they wouldn’t release a browser for consumer use, even if it’s a beta, with such obvious bugs.</blockquote></div> I know the last release was targeted at developers, but I wouldn't say this release is targeted at consumers since it's not something they're really advertising on their home page. Even Mozilla's Beta's had some pretty obvious bugs in them though. MetaMan wrote:
Again, I know this is a beta, but isn’t it supposed to be for consumer use? You’d expect that they wouldn’t release a browser for consumer use, even if it’s a beta, with such obvious bugs.

I know the last release was targeted at developers, but I wouldn’t say this release is targeted at consumers since it’s not something they’re really advertising on their home page. Even Mozilla’s Beta’s had some pretty obvious bugs in them though.

]]> By: MetaMan http://cybernetnews.com/ie8-beta-2-download-colored-tabs-an-awesome-bar-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-142822 MetaMan Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:56:24 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=15119#comment-142822 I realize that this is a beta, and that not everything can be expected to work properly, but this seems excessively buggy. For instance, if I click on a link, I will not be taken to that page. Instead, IE will notify me that it cannot load the page. This is easily corrected by refreshing, but it gets annoying as you have to do this every time you click on a link. Also, my friend uses Yahoo! Mail Classic (for whatever reason), and I told him to upgrade to IE8. He did, and it broke his mail. I then told him to add the site to the compatibility mode list, but the spellcheck still didn't work. Again, I know this is a beta, but isn't it supposed to be for consumer use? You'd expect that they wouldn't release a browser for consumer use, even if it's a beta, with such obvious bugs. I realize that this is a beta, and that not everything can be expected to work properly, but this seems excessively buggy. For instance, if I click on a link, I will not be taken to that page. Instead, IE will notify me that it cannot load the page. This is easily corrected by refreshing, but it gets annoying as you have to do this every time you click on a link. Also, my friend uses Yahoo! Mail Classic (for whatever reason), and I told him to upgrade to IE8. He did, and it broke his mail. I then told him to add the site to the compatibility mode list, but the spellcheck still didn’t work. Again, I know this is a beta, but isn’t it supposed to be for consumer use? You’d expect that they wouldn’t release a browser for consumer use, even if it’s a beta, with such obvious bugs.

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/ie8-beta-2-download-colored-tabs-an-awesome-bar-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-142811 Ryan Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:12:42 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=15119#comment-142811 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-142780" rel="nofollow">Change wrote:</a><blockquote>I just hope they can do some more about the speed as it’s quite slow here.</blockquote></div> My guess is that they are done with adding new features, and that their focus now will be on bug fixes and performance improvements. So it should get better before the final release. Change wrote:
I just hope they can do some more about the speed as it’s quite slow here.

My guess is that they are done with adding new features, and that their focus now will be on bug fixes and performance improvements. So it should get better before the final release.

]]> By: Omar Upegui http://cybernetnews.com/ie8-beta-2-download-colored-tabs-an-awesome-bar-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-142785 Omar Upegui Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:38:24 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=15119#comment-142785 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-142780" rel="nofollow">Change wrote:</a><blockquote> And of course it would be nice if some Fx extensions could copy some of their great ideas :P</blockquote></div> Who knows, they could very well be in the pipeline. Mozilla guys can smell success in the air. Change wrote:
And of course it would be nice if some Fx extensions could copy some of their great ideas :P

Who knows, they could very well be in the pipeline. Mozilla guys can smell success in the air.

]]> By: Change http://cybernetnews.com/ie8-beta-2-download-colored-tabs-an-awesome-bar-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-142780 Change Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:03:11 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=15119#comment-142780 I have to say I am impressed. All the new features look really useful to me: accelerators, webslices, improved tabinterface (incl. the colorized tabs), inprivate blocking, smartscreen filter, activex security improvements, better crash handling, following the web standards properly (finally, though still a bit behind the pack), and the built in improved developer tools. I really like their version of the awesomebar too - clean and clear. Kudos to the team, finally a good IE version again. I just hope they can do some more about the speed as it's quite slow here. And of course it would be nice if some Fx extensions could copy some of their great ideas :P I have to say I am impressed. All the new features look really useful to me: accelerators, webslices, improved tabinterface (incl. the colorized tabs), inprivate blocking, smartscreen filter, activex security improvements, better crash handling, following the web standards properly (finally, though still a bit behind the pack), and the built in improved developer tools. I really like their version of the awesomebar too – clean and clear. Kudos to the team, finally a good IE version again.

I just hope they can do some more about the speed as it’s quite slow here. And of course it would be nice if some Fx extensions could copy some of their great ideas :P

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/ie8-beta-2-download-colored-tabs-an-awesome-bar-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-142759 Ryan Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:07:04 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=15119#comment-142759 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-142751" rel="nofollow">moopenguin32 wrote:</a><blockquote>We’ll just have to see if everything works as advertised. Kudos to Microsoft if it does.</blockquote></div> So far the things they've added work pretty well on my system. And the crashing thing you pointed out is pretty nice where it won't crash the entire browser, but now I'll have to find a site to crash it. ;) moopenguin32 wrote:
We’ll just have to see if everything works as advertised. Kudos to Microsoft if it does.

So far the things they’ve added work pretty well on my system. And the crashing thing you pointed out is pretty nice where it won’t crash the entire browser, but now I’ll have to find a site to crash it. ;)

]]> By: Anonymous http://cybernetnews.com/ie8-beta-2-download-colored-tabs-an-awesome-bar-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-142757 Anonymous Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:03:10 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=15119#comment-142757 So even the sleeping giant couldn't resist the awesome bar...haha! I love the awesome bar, I don't know how I ever surfed the web without one. ;) So even the sleeping giant couldn’t resist the awesome bar…haha! I love the awesome bar, I don’t know how I ever surfed the web without one. ;)

]]> By: moopenguin32 http://cybernetnews.com/ie8-beta-2-download-colored-tabs-an-awesome-bar-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-142751 moopenguin32 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:30:40 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=15119#comment-142751 I'm an avid Firefox user and only use IE when I absolutely have to. Having said that, I am a little excited about IE 8 given all of these cool features. CNET has a screenshot gallery that talks about some of the things mentioned and some things not mentioned. Go to http://news.cnet.com/2300-1032_3-6246111-1.html?tag=TOCcarouselArea.4 to check out out. IE 8 will also have a feature that if a website causes an error, it will only shut down the one tab rather than the entire browser. That is awesome considering Firefox 3.0.1 has crashed a few times and the whole thing goes down. We'll just have to see if everything works as advertised. Kudos to Microsoft if it does. I’m an avid Firefox user and only use IE when I absolutely have to. Having said that, I am a little excited about IE 8 given all of these cool features. CNET has a screenshot gallery that talks about some of the things mentioned and some things not mentioned. Go to [news.cnet.com] to check out out. IE 8 will also have a feature that if a website causes an error, it will only shut down the one tab rather than the entire browser. That is awesome considering Firefox 3.0.1 has crashed a few times and the whole thing goes down. We’ll just have to see if everything works as advertised. Kudos to Microsoft if it does.

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