IE8 beta probably released too early

Comment #6

Todd — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:21:32 GMT

Another thing that may be useful is a "web clips" feature (I may have the name slightly off). If you have a *part* of a certain page that you look at often, IE8 will contantly monitor that piece of the page for updates, and let you quickly view that piece directly from the toolbar. For example, you could use it to monitor the Georgia lottery results grid at www.lotterypost.com/results.ga. You'd click the button on the toolbar and a sort of fancy tooltip would pop up containing just the... [ More ]

Comment #5

Todd — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:11:50 GMT

The reason I'm mentioning this is I don't want to create the impression that IE8 will get installed on your PC during a normal update. We're *many* months from the general release of IE8 (and any potential automatic updates). It may be another year for all I know. @spy153: I think your brother actually did you a favor by setting automatic updates to be installed. I can't tell you how many PCs I've looked at that don't have any updates applied, and as a result it runs like cra... [ More ]

Comment #4

konane — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:06:58 GMT

Thanks for the heads up on that! I hope IE8 has the ability to compact toolbars like IE6 did. With IE6 I was able to scrunch everything on one line up top with drop down menus for greater ability to view with out having to go to full screen mode.

Comment #3

jarasan — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:01:27 GMT

When you uninstalled it, it removed gracefully?<br

Comment #2

spy153 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:08:15 GMT

Glad you said so. I'm not big on the updates thing anyway. But my new computer (Built for me by my brother and though he is a genius, doesn't know how I am with such things) tries to automatically update itself. He did it as a favor for me, but I'm not quick to jump on the update bandwagon like he his. I prefer to let them work out all the bugs before I get it., whatever it may be at the moment. He prefers to form his own opinion of whether it needs fixing or not. Despite all my feelings toward things like that, occasionally I will doubt myself. So, glad you posted this as I was considering the upgrade.... [ More ]

Comment #1

Tenaj — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:58:01 GMT

Why aren't I surprised. MS is known for releasing too soon.

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Todd — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:03:59 GMT