Comments on: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2: Preview and Screenshot Tour

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:05:05 +0000

Conlusion?

By: WOFall

WOFall — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:05:05 +0000

"Opera style overview of currently open tabs."
Sorry, but although i love Opera, they did not invent this. In fact, Opera doesn't even have this feature… IE7 introduced it, and Firefox 3 has integrated it!

By: brinebold

brinebold — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:18:54 +0000

Actually, Opera displays just about everything correctly according to W3 standards. The problem is that nobody can write a website according to those standards or the people still using IE4-6 can't see it correctly and even IE7 has several issues. Opera wrote a real Internet browser, Firefox wrote a lighter and leaner Internet Explorer emulator with additional features.

If your code isn't standardized then IE does whatever IE does and webmasters program around it, Firefox does its best to display things the way webmasters have to assume they'll display (aka like IE), and Opera just says this is what was coded so this is what you get. That's where most of the Opera "quirks" come from, webmasters view the results of their code in IE and Firefox and if it doesn't display correctly then they have to change it until it does.

Nothing negative against Firefox implied, they wrote what was most useful to their user base: something that displays most websites the way that most webmasters tested them.

By: phunokhan

phunokhan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:39:22 +0000

Screw them all, i think webkit rocks. Try Google Chrome or Konqueror (khtml)

By: Toyyo

Toyyo — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:14:29 +0000

I would have called the feature "Private Browsing" Porn Mode… Way faster to find in the menus.

By: jetrry

jetrry — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:58:02 +0000

Opera forever

By: Petko

Petko — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:53:06 +0000

Good morning Microsoft!
It's 2008, and you've been in a coma for several years!
Then all of a sudden you remember that you have a browser which is sooo outdated.
I run a version of the Beta1, and this is what i have to say about that (will test the Beta 2 soon):
We have tabs, and tabs that run in one window, regardless of the zone (woooooow, i'm so amazed! Not!)
We have accelerators??? I have yet to find a use for them, but i have them non the less.
I have a search! It works! Unbelievable! It took them to version 8 to get a working search! This alone is worth the upgrade.
Some websites work better now.
Some websites break. (cant have it all, i guess).
It's slow as hell. Man, you click on open new tab, hell freezes over, you make some coffee, hell melts down again, and then the tab will open.
Conclusion:
It's nowhere near to what firefox is doing, but it's a step in the right direction. If you want a decent browsing experience, then definitely FF3, and give Chrome try as well.

By: SelvaGK

SelvaGK — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:29:42 +0000

u forgot about the safari on windows..works on webkit

By: brad

brad — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:04:23 +0000

Opera blows, it has all kinds of weird little quirks in rendering CSS and other basic web design code. Firefox is pretty good but has gotten too bulky and slow. Safari's not too bad, but also is bulky-ish. Chrome has potential and is fast and light.

By: stelt

stelt — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:51:16 +0000

IE is the only browser not doing SVG.
And that won’t change soon, so its marketshare will keep dropping.

By: valugi

valugi — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:58:25 +0000

one vote for Opera also from my part. Very fast browser and althought I use firefox for development and IE for testing I think Opera is the best browser for a normal internet user.

By: Shiggity

Shiggity — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:46:40 +0000

From a web designer's point of view, I have high hopes for IE 8. IE 7 was still pretty bad compared to Firefox 2 and IE 6 is just like kill me now. Let's wait and see.

By: Murali

Murali — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:21:52 +0000

IE is not free, you pay it through windows. If IE had security problems, it gets carried over to windows OS. So, Microsoft should put much money on IE as they base their OS on browser.

By: capb

capb — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:09:08 +0000

i like the threaded implementation in IE. I don't know if Firefox has it out of the box. in IE8 if a tab crashes, it doesn't bring down the whole browser!

By: James-O

James-O — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:02:38 +0000

Forget both of 'em – firefox is bloaty-fox and a memory hog… onwards to Opera!

By: iStig

iStig — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:59:35 +0000

In the suggested sites: no Reddit, Stumbleupon or any other Digg-type site? Those would seem the most obvious suggestions, not two instances of "u-tube."

By: Rascal999

Rascal999 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:35:21 +0000

IE7 loads localhost faster than Firefox I find. And when using a proxy to get online, Firefox spams the user/password box so many times and asks for it so much, IE7 doesn't. But still, guess what browser I'm using atm…

By: vance dubbery

vance dubbery — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:10:14 +0000

Um how about we stop adding usless trash and get the browser to run quickly and correctly.

By: John Jones

John Jones — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:32:41 +0000

I still gotta feeling FireFox will kick it to the curb! Jiff http://www.privacy.mx.tc

By: Chris Morin

Chris Morin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:04:01 +0000

Techie's complain about IE, but we have to face it folks.. if you have a meter that can see what browsers people use when they visit the site.. mine stands at close to 80% still use IE