Windows 7 RC Improves Internet Explorer 8 Experience

By | May 5, 2009


With the recent Windows 7 RC Release, Internet Explorer 8 received a pleasant improvement to its reliability on Win 7.

Basically, when one of the IE8 tabs crashes/hangs, user gets a choice on what to do with it (see screenshot).

Windows 7 RC Improves Internet Explorer 8 Experience

As IEBlog states: “IE’s frame uses a timer, and if the tab doesn’t respond within a given interval of time, the frame gives the user the choice to recover the page, close the page, or wait for the tab to respond. If the tab responds on its own, IE takes down these choices.”


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Vygantas is a former web designer whose projects are used by companies such as AMD, NVIDIA and departed Westood Studios. Being passionate about software, Vygantas began his journalism career back in 2007 when he founded FavBrowser.com. Having said that, he is also an adrenaline junkie who enjoys good books, fitness activities and Forex trading.

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  1. Tiago Sá says:

    All for the sake of more RAM consumption and preventing the damage caused by something that shouldn’t happen in the first place…