Girl Geekette

Internet Explorer

As the War of the browsers moves on at the end of 2008, big plans are in store for 2009 for IE8 and Google’s Chrome. For what seems normal for Microsoft, they have once again put a delay on IE8.

According to the MS Blog, the release of the final candidate of IE8 has been delayed now until 2009. An exact date is unknown.

We will release one more public update of IE8 in the first quarter of 2009, and then follow that up with the final release.

No surprise there eh?

The call to action now for the technical community is to download beta 2 (if you haven’t already) and let us know about your experience. Next, please prepare for final testing with public update so you can let us know – quickly, loudly, and clearly – if you find absolutely critical issues with it before the release of the final product.

I have been using Mozilla’s Firefox for the last few years. I have seen it get better and better too. With the new Release Candidate available for download now, and the Beta about to become available at this week, I thought I would give the newest version a try.

My first reaction.. it seemed a little faster loading up WebPages. My second reaction? It is a LOT faster to load up WebPages.!

Move over IE, you have just been dropped.

My IE has been crashing more and more lately. So, I tried to download the latest IE. Considering my IE freezes up about every time I launch it, that made it sort of hard to download. I finally got it, but when I tried to install IE, I got a message saying that a newer version of IE was already installed and setup would discontinue.