Re: Internet Explorer 8
Some of the “pros” that I’ve run into with Windows® Internet Explorer® 8 are the Suggested Sites and Accelerators features. Windows Internet Explorer uses a secured connection to send and analyse browsing data, to recommend Web sites that you may enjoy. Accelerators enable you to more closely link Windows Internet Explorer and third-party programs—for example, you can select a block of text and click the Accelerator button to blog it, send it through any of your compatible e-mail programs, translate the text, and more.
There’s also a new browsing mode called “InPrivate”, which enables you to browse the Internet without any trace of which being left on your computer (some media outlets have coined this browsing method ‘porn mode’, heh). There is also the new SmartScreen feature, which warns you when a Web site that you are about to visit has been reported as unsafe (you have the option to proceed nonetheless, of course). If a download that you start has been reported as unsafe, Windows Internet Explorer immediately cancels the download to protect your computer.
The browser frame and tabs are now run by Windows in seperate processes, so that an add-on that causes one tab to crash no longer causes the entire application to shut down. Improvement were also made to the CSS engine and HTML parser to improve the browser’s speed and performance. There’s the WebSlices feature, which enables the browser to keep updated copies of a ‘snippet’ of your favourite Web pages, so that you can see updates or key information at-a-glance. Windows Internet Explorer also includes a “Compatibility Mode” for Web pages that appear to have been designed to display on a previous version of Windows Internet Explorer, which should dramatically reduce the number of broken Web pages as the Internet community upgrades to the new version.
I highly recommend the new version of Windows Internet Explorer, as you can see. ;-)