Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1

Announced by the end of December 08 for the first quarter 09 the first release candidate of the new Internet Explorer is now available.

The user experience managers over at Microsoft might have had a closer look at the competitors when fine-tuning the last beta version. They improved the Search box which now reminds me of search done on Mac OS X. The Smart Address bar and the Favorites bar is similar to what can be found in newer Firefox releases. The pron modus InPrivate is now split up into two main functionalities: InPrivate Browsing and InPrivate Blocking. Among the other revised functions are Tab Groups, New Tab Page, Find on Page, Accelerators, SmartScreen Filter and Web Slices.

Find out more about the Internet Explorer 8 RC 1 in the article User Experience Changes since Beta 2 over at the IEBlog.

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Release of Firefox 3.1 beta 3 postponed

The release of Firefox 3.1 is delayed because there are too many open bugs. The new release date is February 2nd.

The release of Firefox 3.1 is still planned for the end of the first quarter of 2009.

What kind of browser user are you?

12 different kind of browser users

Do you use Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Apple Safari or a completely different browser? Do you consider yourself a newbie, an experienced user or are you an obsessed user? Try to find yourself in the matrix above and let us know in the comments what kind of user you are!

Chrome browser for Mac OS X and Linux

Google productmanager Brian Rakowski confirms rumors that Google is actively developing a Chrome port to Mac OS X and the Gnu/Linux OS. Google switched to a self-developed HTTP-library for Chrome 2.0 to be independent from Windows and one its system libraries which was used before.

Chrome 2.0 developer version available

Google’s browser Chrome is now available as an early preview for developers. The software is open-source so anyone can look at and modify the sources.

The update brings five new features / major updates: New version of WebKit. Form Autocomplete. Full-page zoom. Spell-checking improvements. Autoscroll. There are many more minor changes. See the release notes for details.

If you are already using the Chrome 1.0 you can update to Chrome 2.0 by updating your channels to one of the three available options: Stabel Channel, Beta Channel and Developer preview channel. See the Chromium Developer Documentation section Early Access Release Channels for details.