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Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8 RC1

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the too-little-too-late dept.

mikemuch writes "IE8 has left beta as of noon Pacific time today. The development team now considers the browser platform- and feature-complete, but won't say how long until it goes gold. PCMag.com got an early look and has posted a full review of Internet Explorer 8 RC1. The release candidate differs only slightly from Beta 2, most notably in tweaks to its InPrivate Browsing feature, aka porn mode. That feature has been decoupled with InPrivate Filtering, which blocks third-party content providers from creating profile of your browsing habits. RC1 also improves on performance, especially in startup time, but still trails Firefox and Chrome in JavaScript speed. Protection against the relatively new threat of 'clickjacking,' where a site tries to get you to press buttons underneath a sham frame page, has also been added — the first browser to include such protections. Versions for 32-bit and 64-bit Vista, as well as for 32-bit XP are available, but Windows 7, which will ship with IE8, is stuck with an older beta for now."

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  1. Clickjacking by DrYak · · Score: 4, Informative

    Protection against the relatively new threat of 'clickjacking,' where a site tries to get you to press buttons underneath a sham frame page, has also been added â" the first browser to include such protections.

    No, not the first. Maybe the first to be shipped with the functionality turned on by default.

    It's just that, with FireFox, anything that isn't related to bare simple display of HTML pages, is usually tucked into separate plugins.
    But the Noscript plugin has featured click-jacking prevention almost from the next day after click-jacking came in the news.

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    1. Re:Clickjacking by EvanED · · Score: 3, Informative

      No, not the first. Maybe the first to be shipped with the functionality turned on by default.

      It's more than "turned on by default"; that suggests there's a checkbox somewhere that is just off. The support isn't even installed by default.

      Noscript may have deserved mention in the summary, but there is a difference between "including such protections" and "has such protections available in an add-on", and the difference is much more than between "including such protections turned on by default" and "including such protections turned off by default".

  2. Re:Standards by Sporkinum · · Score: 3, Informative

    Pretty funny.. I ran it on firefox (which I can't update due to IS) and got 71, Opera (which I can't update due to IS) 85. IE Version 7.0.5730.11 (which IS may or may not update) and it was unintelligble (couldn't even see score), and IE 6 in Citrix which got an 11.

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  3. Re:Competitive support for W3C Standards? by i.of.the.storm · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'd like to note that the latest Shiretoko (Firefox 3.1) nightly gets around 93/100 on Acid3, since you're comparing nightly versions of Webkit and Opera. I also think it's been at 93/100 for a while, and I don't think they're focusing on getting 100% for 3.1 as much as just getting it out the door at this point.

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  4. Re:Awesome compatibility for developers by the+99th+penguin · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't worry, there is a way to target .NET 1.1 with VS 2005 and even with VS 2008.

  5. Re:Dear net-surfers: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Get a thumb drive and Firefox Portable, and all your problems will be solved.