Wednesday, November 26, 2008

IE 8.0 shook the Market Share

Hello Friends,


I got good news for Internet Explorer users while I was searching about market share of web browsers. Internet Explorer 8.0 usage share long jumped after its beta2 release. Within three days of its release, usage share was already 500% above the peak beta 1 usage share.

 
As all of us know that beta 1 was primarily a developer's preview, beta 2 is the first release to have the new features intended for the final release. These features include a much improved address bar, private mode browsing, better tabs and improved navigation.

 

As Internet Explorer beta2 version is adding some new features including WebSlices and Activities. In the second beta release, Activities are renamed to Accelerators.

 

Some of the features and changes for the Beta 2 compared to Beta 1.

§                     InPrivate

§                     Delete Browsing History

§                     Search Suggestions

§                     User Preference Protection

§                     Caret Browsing

§                      Accelerators (previously known as Activities)

§                     Web Slices (previously known as WebSlices)

§                     Suggested Sites

§                     Tab Color Grouping

§                     Automatic Crash Recovery

§                     SmartScreen Filter (previously known as the Safety Filter)

§                     Tab isolation

 

Removed features

§                     Inline AutoComplete

§                     The option to delete files and settings stored by addons or ActiveX controls.

§                     CSS Expressions are no longer supported in Internet Explorer 8 Standards mode

 

Reference: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?sample=19&qprid=34&qpcustom=Microsoft+Internet+Explorer+8.0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_explorer_8

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