New Features
Now I have two weaknesses in the way, this is the time to explain why I seriously consider Internet Explorer 8 as the default browser in it. Let me start at the beginning, that is the first start - the installation is of little interest, except that he best long and a reboot of the PC is required.
During the first start, a pretty long setup wizard that asks you this feature on or off to continue the search providers you want to use - of course all standard Windows Live services - and if you want to update search engines - what that may mean.
Once you have answered all these questions - or you just have the option Fast settings selected - immediately reveals that the browser more swallows. Standard is now the favorite bar enabled.
The new favorite bar webslices
If your favorite bar says, say you webslices. The favorite bar is simply a bar with links to frequently visited Web sites that you can add. At least, that he was in previous browser. In Internet Explorer 8, the function, however, changed (read: improve).
The first thing you notice is the recommended Web sites that function as the name suggests, websites based on the current open site recommends.
In addition to the left you can this time also RSS feeds on the Favorites bar places. Once you subscribe to a feed, you get the option to add it to the toolbar. If the website has new content distribution, the 'button' bold so you know that something new is available.
While the bar has such beautiful features offered, you need something simple as adding a link to that bar. It is not possible to simply drag the tab to the Favorites bar. The same goes for adding a bookmark.
Webslices are components of a website which is itself the webmaster should be - and give another dimension to their favorite bar. They are at this moment is not yet widely used, but that can change.
If you can, for example through Webslices quickly check the weather, or see if your new e-mail you received. As you do not surf to a website, but you quickly in a small window - you can not scroll - the necessary information. A beautiful reincarnation of Active Desktop in Internet Explorer 4.0 in which the web now hopefully be ready for.
The new address
The address is no longer what that was. In Mozilla Firefox 3.0 could get working with the awesome bar in Google Chrome with a bar for everything, and now Internet Explorer 8 also has a new address.
The first, most notable new feature is domain highlighting. An innovative new feature allowing users to be better against phishing attacks. Standard is now the domain of the site printed in black, while the rest of the link remains gray. This ensures that a lot clearer on what your site really is.
In addition, the address is a lot smarter. Suppose you have just read an article about the credit crisis and you want to read again, then simply enter your credit crisis and appears with a little luck the article that you requested. A function that already exists in Mozilla Firefox.
Moreover, these suggestions are divided into three categories: simple domain name suggestions, sites from the history and suggestions from your favorites. Slim made. Type one word and you see that the first suggestion is the site where you want to go, you just have to press shift + enter and you visit 'm. There are more shortcuts.
The new search
The new search has also undergone extreme make-over and is now simply amazing. It is called visual search and working as a train. You can search through the website of Internet Explorer 8 add, such as search Amazon. Imagine looking at GTA you get not only results, but also directly the price, their image of the product and assessment of the product. All the website without even visiting.
And there are also search Wikipedia, Google, Live Search, eBay, and there will probably still appear Marketplace, Hyves, and more. You can quickly switch to another search engine because the bottom of the search results are displayed.
The function search page in Internet Explorer 7 antiques and worked disastrous. Microsoft has listened once and searching in a page is finally decent. It is now finally possible for example to start the highlight. Furthermore, search in page in exactly the same way as in Mozilla Firefox, by means of a toolbar below the tab bar from which keyword you should and can set some options.
The new tabs
I had actually thought that all innovation in tabs had been done, but nothing seems less true, as shows Internet Explorer 8. Standard appears when you open a new tab, a page called 'What do you do? ".
On this page recently closed tabs, the possibility of an Private session to start and options for an Accelerator to use .You can also choose whether you want the page 'What to do? " appear to be. It is also a blank page or to display the home page to open a new tab is opened.
Also new is the function of group tabs. Suppose you have a tab open, click on a link in the page and choose to open in a separate tab, then the two tabs that 'belong together' the same color. You can easily distinguish between different tab groups, and it is also possible for example to a whole group to close.
It is still the overview page of all open tabs available, a feature in Internet Explorer 7 is launched. Under this, there are considerable changes made. Each tab in Internet Explorer 8 gets its own process. This change has a huge advantage: a more stable browser. If you visit a website that in one way or another to ensure that the browser crashes, is in Internet Explorer 8 only the web site below, and not the whole browser.
