Crash recovery in IE8 Beta 2
Last time when a webpage crashes IE7, the whole browser will need to be restart and every tabs will be reloaded. This time in IE8, only that particular tab is restarted and reloaded. This is another way on how IE8 will enhance our browsing experience.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta is out and installed!
I had downloaded IE8 Beta 2 and installed on my home PC. Below is my experience on the installation.
Uninstall Internet Explorer Beta 1
If you had IE8 Beta 1
and you tried to install Beta 2 over it, you will get an error message
However removing IE8 is not via the normal ‘Add/ Remove Programs’ or ‘Programs and Features’ menu in Control Panel.
To uninstall Beta 1, go back to Programs & Features.
Look at the left hand panel, search for Installed Updates. You can see a screen as above when you click on it.
Right click on Windows Internet Explorer 8 and click Uninstall. Then you will get a prompt as shown above.
Confirm and wait for the uninstall to complete. You will be prompted to restart the PC.
Install Internet Explorer Beta 2
Once restarted, double click on the installer file and wait for the intro screen
It will ask you whether to install updates or not. Up to you but I uncheck the box.
That’s it!! Simple installation process now started copying the files.
Again it ask you to restart the PC.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 DIY benchmark
By using a stop watch to calculate (so this is not Olympic accuracy) the speed to page loading in IE8B2 compared with IE7 and Firefox 3.0, I got the following benchmark on popular web sites. Conclusion is I see IE8 will be on par with Firefox 3.0 in terms of performance.
Hotmail
| IE7 | 11 seconds |
| IE8 Beta 2 | 6 seconds |
| Firefox 3 | 7 seconds |
| IE7 | 10 seconds |
| IE8 Beta 2 | 9 seconds |
| Firefox 3 | 8 seconds |
Gmail
| IE7 | 13 seconds |
| IE8 Beta 2 | 8 seconds |
| Firefox 3 | 8 seconds |
Yahoo! Mail (New AJAX version)
| IE7 | 10 seconds |
| IE8 Beta 2 | 10 seconds |
| Firefox 3 | 10 seconds |
For chocolate lovers only!!
Discount Duration: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 – Sat, 30 Aug 2008, 10am to 6pm
Company: Calrton Holiday Sdn Bhd
Location:
Setia Hall Level 1, Calrton Holiday, No 1 Persiaran Akuatik, Seksyen 13, 40100 Shah Alam
Promotion:
Choc Stop Family & Friends Sale Up to 60% Off (Come and shop for your Favourite Brand of Chocolates All at unbelievable Clearance Prices!)
Brands Offered:
|
Lindt Cadbury Loacker Fazer Raffaelo Hershey Ritter Sport Ritter Sport Cote d’or |
 |
** Payment by Cash Only **
New HTC SmartPhone based on Diamond’s design
The new S740 takes a cue from Diamond with similar UI but running on Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard edition. Sounds like S730 with a Diamond shell outside, it has 3.5G capability, but with just a fixed focus camera.
Read more from Engadget
about me
Hi there! My name is Patrick and I code on .NET and build a few products on SharePoint and Windows Azure. I am currently CTO of IPS Infonomics Pte Ltd and co-founder of Tech Insights Conference.
My reading list- How to Deliver a Killer Business Presentation
- 10 Hot Web Startups Changing the Face of Retail
- Visa certifies NFC-equipped Android, BlackBerry smartphones for payWave -- Engadget
- An easy way to use certificates for WCF security - CodeProject®
- 6 Things To Do when you got your Unifi Wireless Router D-Link Dir-615 « Sawanila.com™
- Controlling Registry ACL Permissions with Powershell
- Building the Ultimate SharePoint 2010 Development Environment
- Running SharePoint 2010 on a domain controller
- Using Local Machine Accounts for Managed Accounts in SharePoint 2010
- How Trello is different - Joel on Software