First Look at Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1

Published at March 5, 2008 Filed Under Microsoft, Technology

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I downloaded the Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 to see how it works and to test its new features. Install took some time, it scanned all my computer for any malicious software.

After installation when you open it it will ask you to add services for Activities and Webslices. Using these features you can get status updates from your Facebook friends, monitor eBay listings from the toolbar, and more like stumble reviews, Yahoo maps etc. These are quite useful features if you want to have a quick around.

Activities are available as shortcuts from contextual menu, select any word and right click to see how it works.

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This is a beta software, it promptly crashed few times after opening my blog, one good thing is that it recovers the crashed tab immediately. There is an Emulate IE7 mode if you want to go back to IE7 which works perfectly like IE7.

Have you tested IE8, if so how is your experience with it.

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11 Responses to “First Look at Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1”

Syahid A.
March 5th, 2008 6:55 pm

What does “Translate with Windows Live” do. Language translations? That would be cool to have.
Nirmal
March 5th, 2008 10:05 pm

I too had the same issues, it stopped working in my Vista and restarted 2-3 times automatically.
Kanak Bhandari
March 6th, 2008 1:17 am

Great … it didnt crash while opening my blog .. just that I had one small issue with my site. Wonder what should I do !! the first page i opened was the acid2 test .. wanted to see whether beta version is also fully support web standards or not
Bush Mackel
March 6th, 2008 3:01 am

I’m ashamed to admit I didn’t even know there was a Beta out for IE8! I can’t say that I’m excited about it though ’cause that just means another browser we have to make sure our stuff works on. *nod*
Jonathon
March 6th, 2008 6:51 am

It is ok! It seems more like an IE7 update than a new version of Internet Explorer. I think I will stick with FireFox. Just my 2 cents.
Ram
March 6th, 2008 10:44 am

@Syahid
yes it does the same.
@Nirmal
I think it is becoz of jquery.js
@Kanak
Good dude, and it renders acid2 smiley
@Bush
You are right, but if it supports web standards as promised you don’t need to worry anymore.
@Jonathon
It looks like IE7 but it has lot many features
Jawwad
March 8th, 2008 2:52 pm

For now I think there are too much kinks that needs to be removed before we can be comfortable to use it.
maicon
April 16th, 2008 5:19 am

eu kero o ie 8.0 em português;!!!!!!

esse site eh enganoso.