Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2

mr.sly · 27 Aug 2008 at 22:29

Has now been released.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/default.aspx

Seems quite abit faster than Beta 1 and it's added some new features like colour tabs and suggested sites.

No match for Opera yet though.

mr.sly · 28 Aug 2008 at 15:44

cruisinbeatz said:
Hmm looks the part but will it be better than firefox?

If you use all the plugins that come with Firefox definitely not. But for it's good for the average user who wouldn't download Firefox and Opera. And good for developers that IE is catching up.

mr.sly · 29 Aug 2008 at 02:43

asim18 said:
...in other news, i have reached 999 posts!

... and still don't have an avatar.

mr.sly · 16 Sep 2008 at 21:47

Cruiser said:
thats what i was wondering. can i go back to IE 7 ok. just uninstall in add/remove programs?

I think it's in Windows Update, not Add/Remove Programs, but yeah you can roll back easy enough.

Or if you only want to switch because of web pages not looking right, you can run IE8 in an emulated mode.

mr.sly · 18 Dec 2008 at 04:52

ShakenNstirred said:
tried to install IE8 today to have a look at it, but it said it couldnt install as im using vista 64bit

Make sure you get the x64 version for Vista.

Direct link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=87809432-919C-44C0-AB3E-94C5B0ED03D6&displaylang=en

mr.sly · 18 Dec 2008 at 15:35

ShakenNstirred said:
but is the still like the 64bit IE7 where flash etc still dont work?
i had hoped the 32bit version would have installed as vista 64 bit does have IE7 32 bit

Yeah that's still a 32-bit client. It's just for use on Vista x64.