Summary

To address the changing Web, Internet Explorer 8 includes significant improvements over earlier versions of the Web browser. The most important changes are not visible to the user, but the user benefits from improved security, privacy, and reliability. Compatibility View reverts to the Internet Explorer 7 rendering engine for Web sites that do not display properly in Internet Explorer 8. Tab Isolation prevents a Web page that crashes the browser from impacting more than one tab.

Users will notice InPrivate Browsing, InPrivate Filtering, SmartScreen, Domain Highlighting, and Accelerators. InPrivate Browsing allows users to browse the Web with no record of their activities on the local computer. InPrivate Filtering reduces the opportunity ...

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