Late Wednesday, a Microsoft spokesperson told BetaNews that a TechEd session in Orlando today summarized some of Internet Explorer 8's key new features for administrators, one of them being crash recovery. One much improved feature added to the earliest public betas of Mozilla Firefox 3.0 is its ability to remember and recall open pages on a forced exit or a crash -- a feature which was originally integrated into Firefox 2.0, but which frankly didn't work all that well. That version crashed more often, in our experience, and only sometimes recalled its previous state.Similar functionality is likely to be added to IE8, BetaNews was told today by Microsoft. The list of additions also included three other items which, we were surprised to note, were more confirmations of what we already knew rather than indications of new things to come. First of all, administrators will be able to add IE8 to their image-based deployments of Windows Vista, using System Center Configuration Manager. (If they couldn't, that would be a problem.)
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hmm, it took microsoft long enough to implement a feature that had been in firefox and opera for a few years now...
hmm, it took microsoft long enough to implement a feature that had been in firefox and opera for a few years now...
Ah those days when IE would crash, causing explorer to crash, and having to be reloaded (unless your really lucky and explorer.exe doesnt return)
Those were the days.....
No need what so ever for it in IE6, 7, or 8. Especially if you're using Windows XP. Neither of these crash (browser or OS)!!
Why MS keeps adding IE7 compatibility I don't know. IE6 compatibility would be more important because that ****** of a browser is still haunting every web developer. IE7 worked fairly well on websites designed first for Firefox or Opera.
While it's good that MS is trying to catch up to other browsers, there is really nothing to be excited about in IE8 other than standards compliance. What would be exciting is if MS force-fed it to users, eliminating IE6 once and for all.
Why MS keeps adding IE7 compatibility I don't know. IE6 compatibility would be more important because that ****** of a browser is still haunting every web developer. IE7 worked fairly well on websites designed first for Firefox or Opera.
While it's good that MS is trying to catch up to other browsers, there is really nothing to be excited about in IE8 other than standards compliance. What would be exciting is if MS force-fed it to users, eliminating IE6 once and for all.
I think maybe the better thing would be if Microsoft actually created standards compliant website authoriing tools from the beginning, then one would be in the snook they are in today. Maybe if they did from day one, then they could point their fingers at people not using quality tools.
Mind you, anyone who uses Dreamweaver/GoLive! or any other 'website builder' needs to be given a public flogging.
Not going to happen, quite frankly. A huge portion of the corporate world still uses IE6, and they won't be changing any time soon simply because quite a lot of corporate web applications just don't WORK on newer browsers.
Re-write you say? Sure... You gonna pay for that? Corporations sure as hell won't pay to have potentially millions of dollars of software to be rewritten just because some geeks on the internet don't like the way IE6 does things. As long as the corporations want IE6, MS will NOT be forcing newer browsers on people.
Yea thats what i was thinking.
I had a Java applet in a tab on fx2 yesterday that kept crashing the browser everytime i recovered the previous session. I could have clicked 'new session' if i didnt need all the other tabs (very annoying!
Only an idiot would keep pressing yes after they had gone though the loop about 5 times.
Crash Recovery was integrated into IE7Pro as an add on a while back.
Which you'd be crazy NOT to have installed given it's freeware and ads heaps of useful features
plus unlike Fx in which the whole browser crashes. In IE 8 only the problematic tab crashes and is recovered.
IE8 crash recovery: a page in a tab crashes -> crashed tab is recovered, the other tabs survive, the browser remains up!
Last edited by jamesVault on 12 Jun 2008 - 13:19
I really wish that these news articles had factual information in them rather than random FUD.
The crash recovery in FF 2 has always worked. It will be nice when IE8 implements their crash recovery too.
Sho' nuff. I sometimes deliberately kill the process at the end of the day so I can maintain a session of related pages for the next day, sort of like hibernation.
Oh, you mean kinda how like IE8 *is* now standards compliant and actually passes Acid Test 2?
I'll try not to mention the huge number of sites out there that don't work properly on it anymore thanks to its standards compliance, unless you go to IE7 emulation mode.
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