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Internet Explorer 8 Beta Features Revealed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hey-there-new-browser dept.

Admodieus writes "It seems as though the veil has been lifted on the Internet Explorer 8 beta. Microsoft has revealed a list of the new features in IE8, including two interesting new additions called Activities and WebSlices. From the site: 'Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do ... WebSlices is a new feature for websites to connect to their users by subscribing to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave just like feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and notify the user of changes.' Also aboard the upgrade train is automatic crash recovery, a favorites toolbar, and improved phishing filter protection. Microsoft has also posted links to download the beta, but none of them are working right now."

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  1. Working Links by Peeet · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Microsoft has also posted links to download the beta, but none of them are working right now.
    I think I can be of some assistance. Here are some working links to download the next generation browser's beta...</!lying></!goatse></!toworry,still!lying>
  2. Automatic Crash Recovery by The+Aethereal · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Automatic Crash Recovery (ACR) is a feature of Windows®Internet Explorer® 8 that can help to prevent the loss of work and productivity in the unlikely event of the browser crashing or hanging. The ACR feature takes advantage of the Loosely-Coupled Internet Explorer feature to provide new crash recovery capabilities, such as tab recovery, which will minimize interruptions to users' browsing sessions. That is actually pretty cool. Firefox should steal that.