It was only 48 hours ago that Google made its move and released beta version 2.0 of the Chrome browser. World’s largest software developer has countered with a new version of the world’s most common browser. Microsoft has released the final version of Internet Explorer 8. Internet Explorer 8 is available in 25 different languages and available for download at Microsoft’s official IE8 website. Microsoft claims that Internet Explorer 8 is one of the fastest on the market and even if IE8 is considerably faster than the forerunner, it will be tougher to measure up to Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
Except from improved performance Microsoft has also revised the security of the browser, according to the software giant IE8 will block two to four times as many harmful websites as competing browsers.
SmartScreen protects you from harmful websites
It has also added some new functionality, including the following;
- Accelerators. Accelerators make it faster and easier to perform common tasks online by making Web-based services such as ESPN.com, Live Search and Sina available for use directly from the page people are viewing. Users can simply right-click a word or phrase and instantly map, e-mail, or share it.
- Web Slices. Web Slices in Internet Explorer 8 makes favorite information from sites such as Digg, Yahoo! Mail, OneRiot, and eBay instantly available wherever someone goes on the Web.
Web Slices
- Visual search suggestions. The Instant Search Box in Internet Explorer 8 enables rich, real-time search from sites such as The New York Times, Amazon.com and Wikipedia, as well as sites from people’s own Favorites and History, complete with visuals and detailed information that saves time.
Those of you who want to test Internet Explorer 8 can head over the official website were you will also find additional information on the new features of the browser.
