Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 will be released to the public later today. We were given advanced access to the final version and have been using it for a few days now -- ditching Chrome on the PC and Safari on the Mac -- and exploring the Internet, Microsoft-style.
A number of new features have been added since IE 7, along with a multitude of optimisation to the way the browser handles functions such as page rendering, JavaScript and privacy. We'll break these down in detail over the next few pages.
Visually it's similar to its predecessor, and significantly faster at rendering Web pages and JavaScript. Although scoring 5,995.6ms in the SunSpider suite of JavaScript benchmarks during our tests, means Safari 4, Google Chrome, Firefox 3 and Opera 9.6 still handle JavaScript more efficiently.
But we're most interested in how it works, so let's take a look at some of the new features the final version will ship with.
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