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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 - First Impressions

Started by John Sheehan · 10 months ago

It feels fast
I have no data to back this up, but everything feels snappier. Not just script performance but page rendering as well. Opening a new tab is still way too slow. It needs to be near instantaneous.
Bookmarks bar is improved
I’ve always been a big Links toolbar user kee ... Continue reading »

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  • The address bar colouring is a good idea to help avoid phishing attacks, most of which use something like http://somebank.com.evil.cn/internetbanking/, so the highlighting of the TLD will make those kind of attacks more obvious
  • The phishing attacks will adapt to it so in the long run I don't see it as helpful. My bank for instance has nothing with their name in the URL for their online banking. How is highlighting the domain going to help in that case?

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