
Internet Explorer 8 displays enhanced search results including images using auto suggestions in the search box. Group / Sort Tabs - a lightweight alternative to Tab Kit with less functionality.Adds several other interesting features to Firefox like multi-row tabs. Tab Kit - provides the feature to group tabs by domain or parent tab.Internet Explorer 8 creates tab groups automatically when the user launches a new site in a new tab from an existing tab. Features like restoring tabs have are not included therefore. Only features that have not been in Firefox 3 by default have been added. This is usually a Firefox add-on that offers the same functionality as the hard-coded Microsoft feature. The following list concentrates on features of Internet Explorer 8 that have been introduced by Microsoft and their Firefox equivalent. Good times ahead when it comes to web browsers on Windows. The Internet Explorer 8 development team announced new features, and managed to increase the performance and security of the coming Microsoft flagship browser.įirefox on the other hand will see an immense performance gain in version 3.1 when the Mozilla development team integrates the new JavaScript interpreter. No one would have thought that Microsoft would add that much value to the second beta of Internet Explorer 8, the upcoming new version of Windows' default web browser. Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 introduced several exciting new features to the upcoming Microsoft browser which hit the Internet by surprise.
