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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