The look of the browser will be familiar to anyone who has been using IE7, with some small changes to the links bar. The links bar has been rechristened the "favorites bar." When enabled, the bookmark ...

Microsoft had a natural path to market share dominance, packaging its Internet Explorer browser and Windows operating system. After all, many users wouldn't bother to download a competing browser when ...

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 has finally become the world's most-used browser, according to Net Applications' figures based on monitoring website usage. IE8 has taken over from IE6, which has been ...

— -- Question: Is there really any difference between Internet Explorer 8 and 9? Every time I download 9 something goes wrong; is it okay if I keep 8? Answer: You'd have plenty of company in ...

Launching IE8 for the first time after the (sadly) obligatory reboot, the browser asks the usual questions about default browsers, default search providers, and so on. As well as these typical ...

Since IE8 shipped last week, I’ve been following reviews and user feedback closely. A lot of the reactions to Microsoft’s new browser come down to personal preference: Some people like the ...

Google Chrome 15 is the most popular web browser in the world overtaking Internet Explorer 8, according to web analytics firm StatCounter. Chrome 15 just barely beat out its Microsoft rival for the ...

Every day I sit at my computer and open two browsers: Firefox and Internet Explorer (first 6, then 7 and, as of late, 8). “Why do I do that?” I’ve often asked myself. It’s been going on for years. I ...

IE8 has also been tweaked for security and includes a so-called “porn mode,” new anti-malware protection, and better ways to protect your privacy. This final version differs little from last January’s ...

A release candidate of Microsoft's next-generation Internet Explorer browser made available this week has twice finished last in a five-browser benchmark competition. On the Sunspider JavaScript ...

As millions of web developers and others are now discovering, IE8 invokes "security" to break, or at least red tab, a lot of existing web and investigative technology -making it harder, for example, ...

I procrastinated for nearly two weeks before installing Microsoft's new web browser. I'd been happy using rival products like Firefox and Chrome at work and Flock at home, and habits are hard to break ...