Website: http://www.microsoft.com Software Provider: Microsoft, Inc. Current Version: Internet Explorer 8 Operating Systems: Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista License: Freeware
Accelerators: With accelerators you can get directions, translate words, email your friends, and more in just a few clicks.
InPrivate Browsing: A new very useful feature that lets you browse the internet without saving anything on your computer.
Web Slices: Keep up with a web page changes for news, stock quotes, auctions, weather and sports
Search suggestions: A new feature that provides you search suggestions from your web browsing history and your picked search engine.
SmartScreen Filter: New security features help to protect you against deceptive and malicious websites which can compromise your data, privacy and identity.
Automatic crash recovery: If a website or add-on causes cash in the browser, only that tab is affected. The browser itself remains stable and other tabs remain unaffected, thereby minimizing any disruption to your browsing experience.
Crash recovery: If one or more of your tabs unexpectedly closes or crashes, your tabs are automatically reloaded and you are returned to the site you were on before the crash.
About:
Internet Explorer, abbreviated IE or MSIE, is a proprietary graphical web browser made by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. It has been the most widely-used web browser since 1999.
Internet Explorer has been designed to view the broadest range of web pages and to provide certain features within the operating system, including Windows Update. During the heydays of the historic browser wars, Internet Explorer superseded Netscape by supporting many of the progressive features of the time.
The Component Object Model (COM) technology is used extensively in Internet Explorer. It allows third parties to add functionalities via Browser Helper Objects (BHO); and allows websites to offer rich content via ActiveX.
