Ie8

[Admin]

Internet explorer 8 thread i thought this was Dirtybobby ?

Indeed it is; not sure how it turned into a Firefox thread :/

 

[Wookie]

With you on DownThemAll, Markerat; it's like some uberprogeny of a download accelerator and wget.

<rerail> Haven't played with IE8 yet; is it a significant improvement over IE7?

 

[My Name is URL]

Since this is now a firefox thread...

How can anyone live without:

SageToo - for reading RSS feeds
Speed Dial - nicking Chrome's homepage quick links
Foxmarks - web sync bookmarks so can access anywhere.

Will defo check out that "down them all"

 

[age'd parent]

oh yes, Foxmarks is brilliant I don't bother sorting most things out any more, just put tags on them and just search.
recommended for the older generation, and any one with 2 or more computers!

 

[Markerat]

Sorry to all concerned about making IE8 thread into Firefox thread....

but

T-Rex in a FireFox.

 

[The Stafford Beast]

It came out with the windows 7 Beta. Hardly used it, but not had any issues on the couple of occasions i have.

Indeed it will. It seems that not much has changed in IE8 apart from some security fixes and integrations with Windows 7.

Btw, Win7 seems to come with a slightly different bar at the bottom of the screen where you only get icons to identify your running programs by. The nice thing about the IE "e" icon is that it also shows a status bar as the background of the icon when you're downloading something. However, I'm not 100% convinced the new layout is easier to use. I suspect they're making it more iPod-like by having memorable icons for different apps. At least you can mouse-over them to find out what they are.

(I'm a Fedora fan myself - Win7 is running in a vbox VM window in case it self-destructs )

 

[MyCult]

Eagle Eyes’s most exciting (and highly anticipated by developers) feature is its wide support of Mozilla-based add-ons. Though IE 8.1 duly notes that not all plugins will work perfectly, we have tested four popular Firefox plugins (Firebug, Web Developer, Tab Mix Plus, and No-Script) and they worked flawlessly (some of the developers even claim that – in terms of performance – they work much better under IE 8.1 versus Firefox 3).[

IE8 will support FireFox addons... interesting

 

[db]

Eagle Eyes’s most exciting (and highly anticipated by developers) feature is its wide support of Mozilla-based add-ons. Though IE 8.1 duly notes that not all plugins will work perfectly, we have tested four popular Firefox plugins (Firebug, Web Developer, Tab Mix Plus, and No-Script) and they worked flawlessly (some of the developers even claim that – in terms of performance – they work much better under IE 8.1 versus Firefox 3).[

IE8 will support FireFox addons... interesting

so.. was this an april fool?

 

[tek-monkey]

Posting date says March 31st, but which time zone?

 

[tek-monkey]

Yup, tis a hoax. Was posted for 1st April in the Christmas Islands. Bah!