is IE 8 good enough?

Turn off IE 8? Nah

Internet Explorer 8 is a web browser by Microsoft and it is the successor to IE 7. Now IE 8 is available in beta preview version for downloading into computer for testing purpose. This browser is recommended to web developers and experts only. It is not intended to be a fully functional product for web surfers yet.

IE 8 has been improved to meet users' need with new features such as Accelerators, Web Slices, InPrivate Browsing, Search Suggestions and etc. Accelerators are contextual services that allow easy access to Internet services from any web page. Web Slices is a new feature for web sites to connect to their users by subscribing to the content directly within a web page. Developers can mark parts of the pages as Web Slices. It works nearly like a RSS web feed.

Despite the major improvements have been made to IE 8, some of the "newly" added features have already introduced in other web browsers such as the competitor, Mozilla Firefox and the newly released browser, Google Chrome. One of the feature in IE 8 such as InPrivate Browsing is available in Chrome as Incognito Browsing. While the others include Search Suggestions and Automatic Crash Recovery.

IE 7 has made its major update in the aspects of feature and interface. The features that are introduced by IE 7 including Tabbed Browsing and Delete Browsing History. These features might not bring surprise to most of the web surfers as they are already available in Firefox. So, could IE 7 satisfies most of the users and and regain its glory? Maybe IE 8 can realise them.

The future operating system, Windows 7, which is believed to be announced in 2010, have a feature that can disable IE 8, but it cannot be removed from Windows 7. Once disabled, it is no longer available for use, which means that no data will be loaded by the operating system.

The question is, will I disable IE 8 if I am using Windows 7? I am not going to turn it off because some of the websites work best with IE. So, it is annoying to enable it back for this purpose. On Windows XP, I use Chrome and Firefox, depending on my mood. I rarely use IE 7 because it loads the slowest and most vulnerable to online threats, compared to Chrome and Firefox.

Why we have to disable it? Just set our desired browser as default. So, it will not pop up every time we want to open a website when we click on the link in other application.