Microsoft has inflicted Internet Explorer 8 Beta for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition, Window XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2 x64 Edition, and Windows XP SP2 Pro x64 Edition. Mac users are unaffected.
Features include:
– Activities: contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Activities are services that the user can install and manage. Users can install them from the Internet Explorer 8 Service Guide or through any website that advertises Activities.
– WebSlices: 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.
– Favorites Bar: In Internet Explorer 7, the Links bar provided users with one-click access to their favorite sites. The Links bar has undergone a complete makeover for Internet Explorer 8. It has been renamed the Favorites bar to enable users to associate this bar as a place to put and easily access all their favorite web content such as links, feeds, WebSlices and even Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.
– Automatic Crash Recovery: 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.
– Improved Phishing Filter: Phishing sites spoof a trusted legitimate site, with the goal of stealing the user’s personal or financial information. For Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft promises a more comprehensive feature called the “Safety Filter.”
More info here.
MacDailyNews Take: Windows sufferer? Get a Mac. In the meantime, we recommend Apple’s Safari 3, the fastest web browser on any platform, now for Windows. More info and download link here.
Apple’s Safari Web browser for Windows:
Direct link via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIYcmPN-jvE
“Automatic Crash Recovery”
A window pops-up that recommends, “Buy a Mac”.
Cancel or Allow?
Who would want to use Safari, when there is Firefox?
I find Firefox pretty ugly (and PC-like) compared to Safari.
Firefox was and is my favorite browser for Windows (just as Thunderbird was my favorite email client for Windows), but on a Mac: Safari beats Firefox and Mail beats Thunderbird.
Though I think Safari’s bookmarks-utility is horrible. And Firefox has it’s ever growing list of add-ons, of which some are very useful.
Firefox was and is my favorite browser for Windows (just as Thunderbird was my favorite email client for Windows), but on a Mac: Safari beats Firefox and Mail beats Thunderbird.
Though I think Safari’s bookmarks-utility is horrible. And Firefox has it’s ever growing list of add-ons, of which some are very useful.
Firefox was and is my favorite browser for Windows (just as Thunderbird was my favorite email client for Windows), but on a Mac: Safari beats Firefox and Mail beats Thunderbird.
Though I think Safari’s bookmarks-utility is horrible. And Firefox has it’s ever growing list of add-ons, of which some are very useful.
Firefox was and is my favorite browser for Windows (just as Thunderbird was my favorite email client for Windows), but on a Mac: Safari beats Firefox and Mail beats Thunderbird.
Though I think Safari’s bookmarks-utility is horrible. And Firefox has it’s ever growing list of add-ons, of which some are very useful.
Firefox was and is my favorite browser for Windows (just as Thunderbird was my favorite email client for Windows), but on a Mac: Safari beats Firefox and Mail beats Thunderbird.
Though I think Safari’s bookmarks-utility is horrible. And Firefox has it’s ever growing list of add-ons, of which some are very useful.
Firefox was and is my favorite browser for Windows (just as Thunderbird was my favorite email client for Windows), but on a Mac: Safari beats Firefox and Mail beats Thunderbird.
Though I think Safari’s bookmarks-utility is horrible. And Firefox has it’s ever growing list of add-ons, of which some are very useful.
Whenever, I use safari on windows it is so slow that I usually end up closing the program before a page even opens in the browser. Firefox and (gasp) IE don’t give me the same issue in windows. I have been trying to figure out for months what the issue is but to no avail. Anyone have any ideas? Love Safari on my mac but in windows it’s moves at a glacial pace.