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I am attending a QnA session this evening with one of the IE product managers. Is there anything you would like to ask the IE team about IE8 etc?

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Why does it take more than 5 seconds just for it to show the New Tab page? In all editions btw, XP, Vista, and 7 32/64

Everything in 7 loads instant except that.

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Why is there no shortcut to start inspecting the element page? We have to hit F12, then click on inspect element to start inspecting or by hiting Ctrl + B. Ideally there should be a shortcut which does F12 & Ctrl + B together. Also is there a way to launch the developer tool windows within IE to dock?

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Why is it that IE Team hasn't found a better cleaner way of informing the user that the IE is running without any add-ons, instead we are hammered by a big annoying yellow bar that informs us once and then keeps doing it over and over again for every page refresh or navigation. I would rather have the addressbar showing up in yellow background or something cleaner like that.

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Will IE ever have inbuilt mouse gestures? May be along the line when touch and multi touch devices are getting more and more popular nowadays!

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Why does it take more than 5 seconds just for it to show the New Tab page? In all editions btw, XP, Vista, and 7 32/64

Everything in 7 loads instant except that.

If you spent some time - there is a solution that was put out on zdnet by ed bott; there is more to the internet than just neowin.

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Shout at them about Acid 3, improve layout and CSS handling, that way there is no need for "Compatibility mode".

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Why does IE 8 still not focus on Javascript performance?

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/08/2...erformance.aspx

IE8's Scripting Improvements

As part of our broader effort to improve performance in IE8, we did make large investments in JScript performance to make pages faster and to help developers be more productive.

The JScript engine included with IE8 speeds up many common user scenarios. We have made huge improvements to widely-used JScript functionality including faster string, array, and lookup operations. We have also made changes to our core architecture to drastically reduce the cost of functions calls, object creation, and lookup patterns for variables scoped to the window or this objects.

Some of those improvements have been driven by existing bottlenecks in our code. Two longstanding developer pain points, String and Array operations, are in some cases now faster by several orders of magnitude compared to their previous incarnations. These improvements mean that developers no longer need to expend time and effort developing arcane workarounds to avoid slow areas of IE?s JScript implementation (no more array push-joins to avoid string concatenation!). Moreoverthese changes have contributed to improve IE8's performance on the SunSpider benchmarking suite by 400% compared to IE7b>.

Since most users do not use their browser solely to run JScript benchmarking suites, what's even more important is that we've made many sites measurably faster.

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Why does it take more than 5 seconds just for it to show the New Tab page?

My tabs open instantly in Vista SP1.

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Why does it take more than 5 seconds just for it to show the New Tab page? In all editions btw, XP, Vista, and 7 32/64

Turn off Suggested Sites.

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Where is that ****ing spellchecker? :rofl:

Some answers:

- Not needed for people who actually payed attention during their 12 or more years of school learning it

- Because the more features you put into a browser, the more people will complain about it sucking / not working / unnecessary / drowning out the competition etc.

- Because IE8 isn't a word processor

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Some answers:

- Not needed for people who actually payed attention during their 12 or more years of school learning it

- Because the more features you put into a browser, the more people will complain about it sucking / not working / unnecessary / drowning out the competition etc.

- Because IE8 isn't a word processor

- So I take it you learned how to type fluently in every language by the time you finished high school... I doubt that. If you meant English, then you have to understand that it's not everyones native language and a spell checker is an invaluable asset for them.

- Spellchecking is a very basic feature that the majority of decent web browsers already posses out of the box, or activated with the addition of a dictionary.

- And that is why it is not used as one. But you can't really expect everyone to write their posts in Word just to spell check them and then paste them in the posting panel.

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Actually that exists. When you close a tab and then open a blank tab with "about:Tabs" as a homepage, it shows the closed tabs for that session. It is also capable of restoring tabs when the browser crashes.

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1: Why don't they support add-ons like Firefox does with a centralised place where people can add/download them?

2: Why don't they focus on Javascript performance?

3: Do they really think people will use the IE8 native mode on their websites? Because it means you need a CSS for IE6,IE7 and IE8. If people use compatibillity mode, they only need to make one IE7 file for both. IE8 native still isn't 100% right, and there are things you need to add in a separate CSS file (to bad..but true).

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Are the rumours of dropping Trident true? Will IE offer a webkit version eventually?

I really hope they are. IE has a chance of beating Firefox if it does and it'll we a mercy for web developers.

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