FT: Internet Explorer 8 and Chrome

[marypcbuk]

You find the web page you want. You scroll down, find what you need to know, close the page and get back to work. Then two minutes later, you think of something else you need to check, so you have to either trawl through your browser history or run the search all over again.

Frustrations such as these are one of the areas Microsoft hopes to address with its new version of Internet Explorer, which lets users right-click any tab to re-open the last browser tab they closed or choose recent pages on any new tab. Read the rest at the FT

I'd say the 'reload the tab I closed' is the most useful thing I notice in IE 8, but I already had search in the page and reload on crash with IE 7 Plus - but the search highlighting history and favourites is a close second. Code-wide, this is still a beta - but it's not a bad beta and it's now my daily browser.

Comments

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

Or you use Firefox with the Session Manager add-on which allows you to reopen any of the last 10 tabs you closed.

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

there's a lot in IE that has been available as add-ons for both browsers (including a list of all recently closed tabs on every new tab). It is useful to have it built into the browser for when you use a machine that's not your own, and my FT readership is, I think, less likely to install their own add-ons than my LJ readers ;-)

[wendyg.livejournal.com]

And there's a lot in all browsers that was first done by...Opera. :)

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[marypcb.livejournal.com]

and yet the Opera market share keeps dropping; Chrome took a lot of Opera users and when Chrome's 1% share dropped to 0.77% the margin went mostly to Firefox. Hmmm - browser futures derivatives anyone?

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

I use TabMix Plus which handles that side of things very nicely.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Or you run Opera. Which has this as core functionality, with no mere last 10 limit