IE8 Beta 2 released
Microsoft have today released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 to the public.
This is certainly a promising version, with several features that didn’t end up in Firefox 3, such as private browsing. IE8 now supports private browsing natively, a big step for privacy and security on the web. Microsoft have also included safeguards against dodgy addons - IE8 now includes automatic crash recovery. If an addon or a web page becomes unstable and causes IE to lock up, only the actual tab will be affected, not the entire browsers, as such was the case in browsers at the minute. The core of IE8 won’t crash and the other tabs will remain stable.
Although I am primarily a user of Firefox and Safari, from a web developers point of view I am certainly looking forward to what else future incarnations of IE8 has to offer.
You can find IE8 Beta 2 here on Microsoft’s IE8 site.
Jamie.