IE8 Beta Released To Public 605
Tim writes "English, German, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese versions of Internet Explorer 8 have been released for public beta. New features include accelerators, which provide instant context menu access for a number of common tasks; automatic crash recovery, which prevents a single page's failures from taking down your entire browser; and browser privacy, a feature that didn't make Firefox 3. I'm primarily a Firefox user, and I've been using IE8 at work (MS) for the past few weeks. It's a definite improvement over previous versions, and brings a lot to the table that Firefox requires extensions for. Give it a spin, submit feedback, and help keep all browser makers on their toes by facing each other's competition."
Re:Oh, I'd like a version (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I tested it (Score:5, Funny)
Why? Did you find a gaping security hole?
Re:Standards-complient or not? (Score:5, Funny)
Intruder (Score:2, Funny)
at work (MS)
AHA! Get him, guys!
Re:Took it for a whirl and discovered, 30 seconds. (Score:3, Funny)
Okaaaaaaaaayy... (Score:3, Funny)
Now you can shop for that special gift with confidence knowing your family won't accidentally find out.
Yeah, that's what "InPrivate Browsing" is gonna be used for.
Re:Shows what competion can do. (Score:5, Funny)
In that case, they would have released it in Klingon. Everyone who I know who speaks even a small amount of Klingon, uses Firefox.
Re:Shows what competion can do. (Score:3, Funny)
It's an insider joke: Die IE8, Die IE8!
Re:Excellent feature... (Score:4, Funny)
Excellent feature that will definitely be craved by many Slashdot users, and not because of the gift shopping or use of public terminals.
Nah, we have no girlfriends or wives to hide our porn browsing from. We wear our pr0n history like a badge of honor.
Private browsing = covering pornography traces (Score:1, Funny)
common tasks? (Score:2, Funny)
New features include accelerators, which provide instant context menu access for a number of common tasks; automatic crash recovery
its good to know what the common tasks are...
Re:Shows what competion can do. (Score:0, Funny)
dont forget brazil!
Re:So what? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Just guessing, but... (Score:5, Funny)
A large portion of Spanish speakers (e.g. Latin America) live in extreme poverty, so I doubt they'll all be downloading IE8 Beta anytime soon.
But, it's free!
Re:Standards-complient or not? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:So what? (Score:2, Funny)
Don't mind parent post, he's from Barcelona.
Re:Shows what competion can do. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Shows what competion can do. (Score:3, Funny)
That's half the language. If you study the Klingon learning tapes, that is the first thing they teach you.
Re:Standards-complient or not? (Score:3, Funny)
Ogun tugle morf korblit anizag norple.
Re:Shows what competion can do. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Shows what competion can do. (Score:4, Funny)
A spelling Nazi that actually speaks German? Wow...