Tag Archive: browser

Yesterday Microsoft came out with a patch to satisfy US antitrust authorities. It’s all about the automatic installation of Internet Explorer 8 – or rather, it used to be.

Previously, when a user installed IE in Express mode, it automatically selected the browser as the default, even if the user had another browser selected as the default, and in a report, authorities weren’t too pleased:

"The Express option is most often selected by unsophisticated users who would then lose their prior default selection of a non-Microsoft browser."

The battle of the browsers renews today as Microsoft officially launches Internet Explorer 8, a year after the first beta release, ZDNet has reported. Although IE remains the dominant browser in the marketplace, others, like Firefox, have slowly been eroding that superiority, so a lot is riding on this.

However, IE 8 has several new offering, including greater safeguards to stop malware and phishing, grouped tabbing, and the quickly-becoming ubiquitous privacy mode.

With the grouped tabbing, where one tab has been opened from another, or both are from the same site, the tabs are color-coded to make them easier to recognize.