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.
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.
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.
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.
Granted, it doesn’t have the full-on extensions capabilities Firefox users get addicted to, but there’s still plenty you can customise in Internet Explorer 8 even without playing with the new Web Slices and Accelerators features.
Apart from loading web pages, there’s one thing that most of our readers want their browser to do: Block annoying advertisements. Web site Neowin points out that Internet Explorer 8′s InPrivate feature does just that.
If you’re a Windows user who wasn’t tempted to download Internet Explorer 8 the minute the final release went live, take note: it’s probably about to appear on your system anyway courtesy of Automatic Update.
If you’re keen on Internet Explorer 8 but haven’t quite gotten into the auto-updating “Web Slices,” the LiveSlices site makes it super easy to track Gmail, RSS, Twitter and other feeds from a drop-down menu button.
According to web analytics firm StatCounter, Firefox 3 has ousted Internet Explorer 7 as the most used web browser use in Europe. Good news, but it’s not exactly as rosy as it sounds:
NineMSN — a site co-owned by Microsoft — is one of dozens of popular Australian sites which won’t render properly in Internet Explorer 8. What gives?
