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Look Out, Firefox 3 — IE8 Is Back On Top For Now
CWmike writes "Internet Explorer 8 has shipped in its final version and is ready to take on its rivals. Preston Gralla reviewed it and says the latest version of Microsoft's browser leapfrogs its closest competition, Firefox 3, for basic browsing and productivity features — it has better tab handling, a niftier search bar, a more useful address bar, and new tools that deliver information directly from other Web pages and services. IE8 has also been tweaked for security and includes a so-called 'porn mode,' new anti-malware protection, and better ways to protect your privacy. The most noticeable new features? Accelerators and Web Slices. Think of an Accelerator as a mini-mashup that delivers information from another Web site directly to your current browser page. Web Slices deliver changing information from a Web page you're not actively visiting directly to IE8. There's one big problem for many, though. No add-ins, and there doesn't appear to be such an ecosystem on the horizon. So if you're a fan of add-ins and customizing the browser itself, writes Gralla, Firefox is superior. But for the actual browsing experience, IE8 has the upper hand — for now."
I think your keys may be sticky for another reason...
Some people are only alive because it's against the law for me to hunt them down and kill them.
Where can I download the OS X version of IE8? Oh yeah, IE8 for OS X does not exist... bummer....
Install Firefox .... oh what's this - add-ons, cool what are there? Most popular User Agent Switch, Save image, Adblock, Media Converter ... ... oh look and these are checked .... hmm let's try these .... nice ...
IE - Can't see anything about addins ... Hidden menu bar ... Oh look Manage add-ons, most popular: Silverlight, Search, Search, Search, Search .... nothing interesting ....
Puteulanus fenestra mortis
it is still only supported on one alleged OS.
This is not news... who cares.....
Go away IE and take MS with you!
1311393600 - Back to Black
I'm the one nitpicking language? You just redefined "has addins" to "has a GUI to easily find addins".
Yes, if you define "addin" as "that thing that IE doesn't have", then IE doesn't have them. For a rational person, there's no difference between Google toolbar in FF and Google toolbar in IE.
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>But for the actual browsing experience, IE8 has the upper hand-- for now
Perhaps for the moment. But it has NO upper hand at all if you are not running MS Windows. If you are using Linux, BSD, Solaris, MacOS, or any other system, IE is not, has not, and will not be an option.
Wake me up when it is multi-platform...