Crash recovery and tab history
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A buggy add-in or poorly written web page can crash the browser, potentially taking every other tab with it. IE8 builds in crash recovery tools and keeps track of pages from the current and previous session. In my testing, I found that the Tab Isolation feature works well; in most cases a crashed page only takes down the current tab, leaving other open tabs untouched.
For a more detailed discussion of this and other features in Internet Explorer Beta 2, see Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover.
A buggy add-in or poorly written web page can crash the browser, potentially taking every other tab with it. IE8 builds in crash recovery tools and keeps track of pages from the current and previous session. In my testing, I found that the Tab Isolation feature works well; in most cases a crashed page only takes down the current tab, leaving other open tabs untouched.
For a more detailed discussion of this and other features in Internet Explorer Beta 2, see Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover.
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- There's always ieSpell
- I don't know if it is related to the IEPro mentioned in one of the other notes, but there is a little program called ieSpell which fi I remember right is free. It can be used for everything not relate... (Read the rest)
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