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About a month ago we wrote about the main new features that are coming in Internet Explorer 8 such as the SmartScreen Filter, InPrivate Browsing, Accelerators, and Web Slices (click here to see this post). Well here is a list of some of the smaller, but still very useful improvements, you can expect from IE8.

  1. Tab groups – Tab groups help you to quickly see which tabs have related content. In IE8 when one tab is opened from within another tab the new tab is placed next to the original and is colour coded to match the tab it came from. When you right click on a tab you can choose to close just that tab, or the whole tab group.
  2. Improved Find On Page – The Find On Page feature (Ctrl F) now searches while you type, so that in most cases you don’t even have to finish typing to find the word or phrase that you’re looking for. This ’search as you type’ feature is already available in IE7 in the form on an Add-On but in IE8 it’s built in.
  3. Smarter Address Bar – The new address bar now searches across your history, favourites, and RSS feeds as you type and displays matches from the website title or any part of the URL.
  4. Re-open closed tabs or your last browsing session – If you’ve ever closed a tab or your whole browser by mistake then you’ll know just how helpful this feature can be. With IE8 you can reopen the tab that you last close or reopen all the tabs that were open when Internet Explorer last closed.

To learn more about Internet Explorer 8, or to download IE 8 Beta 2 click here. The final version of IE8 is expected to be released at the end of this year.