Internet Explorer 8 BETA 2 is Out!
For those of you that didn't know it already, Microsoft just made available the 2nd beta for their IE8. (I installed it when I got home from work this morning around 8 AM.) This one is geared more for the consumer (that's most of us) instead of the people that make web pages. It seems to be faster then IE7 is, so the web pages come up faster. (Some of the actual reviews of it are saying it still isn't as fast as FireFox3, but I don't use it so I can't make a comparison between the 2.)
They made some changes to it. LINKS is now called the "Favorites Bar". There is a safety switch on the same line where you can get back to your home page (the name escapes me right now). With that switch, you can delete your browsing history with a click. You can also put it in "InPrivate Browsing" mode, better known as "Porn" mode. (More or less it erases your tracks as you go along surfing the net so you don't leave any traces of where you've been.) I haven't tried it yet to see if it actually works the way it should. (The Mac's Safari browser has had this option for some time so people say.)
For my searches, I use WebFerret6 Pro. It installs itself into the browser like a toolbar. I have noticed that if I click something wrong in IE8B2, it seems to cause it to make a double address bar, wiping out the WebFerret bar. I hope this is only a glitch. But we will have to wait and see.
We all know there are more than likely a whole bunch of changes "under the hood". I've just touched on the ones that are visible to the eye when you start it up.
You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/ie8 .
Till Next Time!