I clicked on the green Web Slice icon and added the Digg Web Slice to my Favorites Bar. I visited Digg (a favorite website of mine) with IE8 and noticed that they have a Web Slice available for top “dugg” topics. When I visit a website that has a Web Slice, instead of the standard orange RSS icon I get a green Web Slice icon. As information within these Web Slices update, they become bold in the Favorites Bar signifying new information is available within a specific Web Slice. Web Slices are little “slices” of information within a website that can be subscribed to and added to the Favorites Bar.
The Favorites Bar is also a key component to another new feature in IE8: Web Slices. Those who also prefer not to have the Favorites Bar showing will be pleased to know you can turn it off (although I don’t know why you would want to!). You can also right click in IE8’s menu and choose Customize where you can have the refresh and stop buttons moved to the front of the Address Bar. You can unlock the toolbars and drag the IE menu bar to a variety of places in IE8. IE8 brings some changes that allow much more customization that I think users will be happy with. Side note on customization in IE8: Many readers of this blog have expressed to me unhappiness with the lack of customization in IE7. Essentially – the Favorites Bar is designed to help users highlight there most used Favorites and other information they want quick access to. And this is one of the new features in IE8 I use the most. The most notable change to the UI in Internet Explorer 8 users will take notice of is the Favorites Bar. I’m only going to cover some of IE8’s biggest new features and features I use the most.įirst off: when you fire up IE8 you’ll notice that the IE “chrome” has changed from the glossy metallic look to a softer light blue look with less gloss. Keep in mind there are far too many new features and changes in IE8 for me to highlight in a single post. I’ve found these features in IE8 so useful in fact that I am using IE8 Beta 2 on all my PCs.
There are some brand new fe atures in IE8 I’d like to call out, based on my own experiences that I think users will find very useful in browsing the web. I’ve discovered with IE8 that browsing the web is much more efficient. Matter of fact, based on my own experiences with IE8 these past few weeks, finding your “stuff” quicker is a very strong theme in IE8. Internet Explorer 8 comes packed with new features designed to make browsing the web much easier and finding what you want much quicker.
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It includes some very important information such as how to uninstall IE8 Beta 1 and more. You can read the IE Team’s announcement of the new release and very important milestone here from IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch on the IEBlog.Īlso be sure to read this post from Program Manager Jane Maliouta on upgrading to IE8 Beta 2. Today, the Internet Explorer Team has made available Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 for all to download.
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