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Browser Speed Tests: The Windows 7 Results

4:00AM Kevin Purdy | Firefox 3.6 Beta 1, like every other browser, makes a claim to being “faster”. We took Firefox and all the other latest browsers, put them on Windows 7, and ran them through our human-measured speed tests to vet the bragging. More »
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Internet Explorer Determines Which Add-Ons Slow Down Browsing

7:00AM Dustin Luck | Internet Explorer 8 only: Internet Explorer may be the least popular browser among our readers, but weblog IEBlog demonstrates how to determine which add-ons are slowing down your IE page loads with a tool we wish other browsers would pick up on. More »
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Make IE Open New Tabs Quicker

4:00PM Angus Kidman | Finding Internet Explorer 8 a bit sluggish when it comes to opening new tabs? Badly written browser add-ons might well be to blame. More »
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IE8 Gets Less Sneaky In Setting Default Browser

2:30PM Angus Kidman | Not using Internet Explorer as your main browser but still need a copy of IE8 for occasional testing? A change to the browser makes it slightly less likely to railroad your existing browser preferences. More »
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Microsoft’s Browser Comparison Chart Offends Anyone Who’s Ever Used Another Browser

3:30AM Adam Pash | Internet Explorer 8 is by far the best browser Microsoft’s ever released, but most of our readers are happily using a better alternative like Firefox or Chrome. Microsoft’s not happy about this, so they’ve created an absurd piece of propaganda to win you back. More »
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Search Bing From Your Browser’s Quick Search Box

2:00AM The How-To Geek | If you want to add Microsoft’s new search engine in the quick search box for your favourite browser, we’ve got you covered. More »
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Learn To Tweak Zoom In Internet Explorer 8

3:00PM Angus Kidman | The odds are good that no matter what your preferred browser you don’t spend a lot of time with the zoom feature, but the recently released Internet Explorer 8 has a few neat zoom tricks up its sleeve. More »
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IE8 Logs You Into Multiple Webmail Accounts

4:00AM The How-To Geek | The official IE blog points out a useful new feature included in Internet Explorer 8: You can login to the same site with multiple accounts—simultaneously. More »
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Early Windows 7 RC Doesn’t Support Compatibility View

12:00PM Angus Kidman | A quick pointer for anyone who’s playing with an “unofficial” copy of the Windows 7 Release Candidate ahead of this week’s official public rollout: it doesn’t yet include the Compatability View feature in IE8. More »
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Xdn Tweaker Updates To Tweak Windows 7

10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows: Xdn Tweaker, which we’ve previously enjoyed for its fine-tuning capabilities on Windows XP and Vista, has upgraded to support the same sort of fixes and features on Windows 7, plus a few unique offerings. More »