January 28, 2009 by Matt Thomas
Yesterday I spoke about the the improvements that IE8 has made to its tab function. Well, I have one more improvement to tell you about. It seems that Microsoft have really gone for it with the tab stuff this time and in the process created what, for me at least, is perhaps the most interesting development in the whole of IE8.
it’s something Microsoft has named tab isolation. Tab isolation is a feature that’s intended to stop one poorly designed, bug filled website crashing the entire browser. Instead, only the affected tab will close. I, for one, applaud this. An unexplained crash is one of the most incredibly annoying things that can happen to you online, especially if you’re in the middle of writing a long email or uploading something complicated when it happens.
Another useful change is that IE8 will now give you searching suggestions as you type. In the same way that YouTube does, if you begin typing a word, IE8 will give you suggestions in a box below as it tries to guess what you are searching for based on other popular searches. It’s a small thing in many ways but it’s amazing how useful it actually is in day to day browsing.
(More tomorrow)
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