IE8 cannot be unknown five major problems: Does not include Windows 7

On October 11, Beijing time, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft is about to release the final version of Internet Explorer 8 in the early morning of October 11, Beijing time. Before publishing a new browser, you need to understand the following five questions.

1. Manual download is required

You can only download the ie8viewer via www.microsoft.com/ie8or Microsoft download center. Microsoft is not sure when to include IE8 in the Windows Update Service.

2. Windows 7 version not included

If you are using Windows 7 Beta, you can only continue to use IE8 RC1. Microsoft has not confirmed when the final version of IE8 will be open to Windows 7.

3. Security issues cannot be ignored

Microsoft said that IE8 would be the safest browser in history. In fact, we have heard similar comments before. But what is the truth? At yesterday's PWN2OWN hacking competition, contestants quickly broke IE8 by exploiting vulnerabilities that were not previously known to the outside world, second only to Apple Safari. Some experts said that the clickjacking protection function of IE8 will give users an illusion of browser security. This does not mean that IE8 is not secure enough, but users should not trust the hype. The most basic security policy still applies.

4. The speed is not as fast as claimed

Microsoft said: "IE8 is currently one of the fastest browsers on the market. When loading the top 25 websites of comScore, the loading time is almost half of that of other browsers ." According to previous tests, IE8 is indeed faster than IE 7, but most testers are hard to detect the obvious difference between IE8 and Firefox. The latter is the main competitor of IE.

5. View compatibility

At present, many web pages are optimized for IE 7, so the tester found that IE8 may encounter problems when rendering some web pages. This is also the use of IE8's "View Compatibility View)" function. If the webpage cannot be correctly rendered, IE8 will automatically tell the webpage that the user is using IE 7. The browser automatically remembers the webpage that requires the "compatible viewing" function. You can also manually enable or disable this function.

IE8 is expected to change the pattern of the current browser war, at least according to the current comment, this is the best IE browser in a long time.

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