Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate Now Available

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We're excited to make the IE8 Release Candidate available today for public download today in 25 languages for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server customers. You can find it at https://www.microsoft.com/ie8. Please download it now and try it out. We welcome your feedback!

What’s New

The team will post more about all changes between Beta 2 and RC. In brief:

  • Platform Complete. The technical community should expect the final IE8 release to behave as the Release Candidate does. The IE8 product is effectively complete and done. We’ll post separately about the thousands of additional test cases we’re contributing to the W3C. We've listened very carefully to feedback from the betas. With the Release Candidate, we’re listening carefully for critical issues.
  • Reliability, Performance, and Compatibility improvements. We’ve studied the telemetry feedback about the browser's underlying quality and addressed many issues.
  • Security. We’ve worked closely with people in the security community to enable consumer-ready clickjacking protection. Sites can now protect themselves and their users from clickjacking attacks “out of the box,” without impacting compatibility or requiring browser add-ons.  We also made some changes to InPrivate based on feedback from customers and partners.

We also made some changes to the user experience based on feedback. For example, based on data about how people use actually it, we made fitting more items on the Favorites bar easier. (Note that the IE8 Release Candidate is for Windows Vista, XP, and Server only; Windows 7 users will get an updated IE8 with the next update of Windows 7. Also, the Release Candidate of the Internet Explorer Administration Kit is available for download now.)

What’s Important

IE8 focused on how people really use the web. Consumers want a browser that makes the tasks they do every day faster and easier. The activities people spend their time on define real-world performance: navigating to websites, working with tabs, searching, keeping track of changing information (like traffic or an auction), and using the information from one site with another (as in getting a map). Everyone wants a trustworthy browser that keeps them in control and protects their safety. Developers want great developer tools, great interoperability, and a powerful platform that enables them innovate. For some people, accessibility is crucial; for some organizations, policy, administration, and deployment are essential.

The people who read this blog and comment on it are (for the most part) technology enthusiasts and professionals. We enjoy wading through the details of browser features or how to measure performance. We also need to remember that we’re a pretty small minority of the hundreds of millions of people who browse the web. Looking at the telemetry data and usability tests and feedback from real users, we’re excited about the positive impact that this release of IE will have.

What’s Next

The call to action now is for the community to download the Release Candidate, test your sites and services and software with the product, make any changes necessary for the best possible customer experience with IE8, and let us know about your experience.

We’re going to continue listening to feedback. We’re interested in reports of critical issues (e.g. security, backwards compatibility, completeness with respect to planned standards work, or robustness). We’re also going to keep blogging and reading and responding to the comments here.

Our next step, after listening to feedback from the final testing feedback from the community, is releasing the final product. We will be very selective about what changes we make between the Release Candidate and the final product, and very clear in communicating them. We will act on the most critical issues.

Books often have dedications from the authors at the beginning. While software typically doesn’t have an equivalent, the software developer’s blog is a good stand-in. To everyone who has installed the product and provided feedback so far – web developers, security experts, industry partners, IT professionals, and people who “just” browse the web – thank you from the Internet Explorer development team.

Thanks –
Dean Hachamovitch
General Manager

PS – Jason Upton and I sat down last week with Channel 9 to discuss the RC.  You can view the interview here.

Updated 4:04pm – adding link to interview.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    We are having some technical difficulties publishing the RC1 release notes.  We are working on resolving this as soon as possible.  

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    Microsoft hat sich vor der Veröffentlichung einer Beta-Version des kommenden Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) nun doch (einigermaßen überraschend) dazu entschlossen, die ggü. IE6 und IE7 standardkompatiblere Darstellung von Webinhalten standardmäßig zu verwende

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    The IE Blog reports on the release of IE 8 RC1 : We're excited to make the IE8 Release Candidate

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    Windows Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 for Windows XP. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123814 Windows Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 for Windows Server 2003 SP2 64-bit Edition or Windows XP Professional 64-bit Edition. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123828 Windows Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123821 Windows Internet Explorer Release Candidate 1 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 64-bit Edition. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123823 Windows Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 for Windows Server 2003 SP2 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=60ecc300-770b-4f22-b1bd-02fb466e4b77&DisplayLang=en

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate Is Now Available . Here is post that would help you Upgrading to

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    links point to Beta 2 (not even PR1) nor RC1. docs are just a copy of the Beta 2 ones. (we know, because they were shipped with "Track Changes" enabled (e.g. not a PDF) and 99% of the changes were "deleted beta 2". links to the "view website" for IE8/Canada point to the IE7 page. So lets review how this should go. Steps: 1.) upload the binaries to the file server(s) 2.) update the documentation pages to point to the new binaries 3.) update the IE blog to point to the new documentation 4.) No epic fail! (other than the blog site being down, because it was getting hammered, due to the epic fail of this post. Oh well by tonight this should all be solved.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    Eric - those links all fail too.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 is finally available! In order to get started with all the news,

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    At first I was fired up about support for querySelector and querySelectorAll in IE8. However, after a lot of testing I'm sorry you implemented it. You should have waited until you had support for CSS3 selectors. Otherwise, the same selector query for Firefox/Safari with CSS3 selectors will require a cludgy workaround for IE8. Since in all my JavaScript I test for support for querySelectorAll and if it is not supported I use my slower JavaScript selector API, now I have to test for querySelectorAll AND then test for IE8, at which point I need to ignore querySelectorAll and use the JavaScript API, all because you don't support the full spectrum of selectors as other browsers. My JavaScript API will make ammends for IE's lack of CSS3 selectors, but it's much, much slower than querySelectorAll.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    おはようございます。五寳です。 大変お待たせしましたが、Internet Explorer 8 RC1 が先ほどリリースされました！ このビルドは最終リリースに向けた、その名のとおりの位置付けのリリースで、IE8

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    El equipo de Internet Explorer acaba de anunciar la disponibilidad de la Release Candidate 1 (RC1) de

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    Installed RC1 but the Version says 8.0.6001.18241 and says beta 2

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    I'm curious! I'll give it a try in Virtual PC. Hope to see a new version for Windows 7 soon.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    Installed RC1 on Windows Server 2008 x64, where IE7 was working fine, but IE8 is not: Open in New Tab opens a new tab that says "Connecting..." but does nothing. Open In New Windows does nothing either.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    Windows Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 for Windows XP Windows Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    Grrrrrrr, I got a beta version 8.0.6001.18241 as well. That was an anoying waste of time

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    Installed RC1 on Windows Server 2008 x64, where IE7 was working fine, but IE8 is not: Open in New Tab opens a new tab that says "Connecting..." but does nothing. Open In New Windows does nothing either.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    The RC1 release notes are now availble here: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=949787

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    How is clickjacking protection implemented? Does it require cooperation from websites? Is it documented?

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    I commented in the wrong post previously, so I'll say it here too: Why doesn't setting accessors work on objects? From my tests, it only seems to work on the DOM and Window.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    Not even sure how to describe it but IE8 RC1 suffers from some major Table rendering glitches. adding DOM nodes to a node that is inside a table, where the new nodes are positioned absolute (e.g. float over the table) causes a huge table shift on the existing table content, where text, images and form controls all overlap table cell boundaries and increase padding. Much worse than the IE8 PR1 rendering. much worse.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    Print Preview is one big fail. The options dialog tries to refresh itself every  2-3 seconds removing focus. I tried for 2 minutes to set all margins to 0.25 and couldn't.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    Retried installing. Geeting an RC 1 version now. Very anoying blocking of add-ons due to Live login addon. The popup stating this has an option "Update" but it does not update the addon but takes me to a fairly complex support page on Microsoft.com that is definitly not acceptable for the regular users. This needs to be improved (a lot)  

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    steve_web said: "Not even sure how to describe it but..." I've got an idea, how about you describe it like a reasonably good beta tester?  Provide a repro URL or HTML source and screenshots showing the erroneous behavior.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    OMG! that print preview is BAD!!!!! Even after you exit, it STILL tries to steal focus, flashing the printer selection dialog in the background. At a bare minimum we need an RC2.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    Will (when?) the Application Compatibility testing VHDs be updated with this new version?

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    @Ted: not sure if you've downloaded IE8 RC1 but if you have, and you visit some sites with tables and DOM manipulation, you'll see that RC1 is a step backwards in terms of reliable behavior. I didn't create a test case yet (repro URL points to private internal applications) Just giving my first impressions before heading home for the day. So far, its worse than PR1. (so far) As for how to be a good beta tester? yeah I do know.  When there is a good system to submit bugs where I don't have to spend 30 minutes to fill out a report - then we'll talk. Lets see what others think.  I think so far today the install of IE8 RC1 has been a complete mess.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    В данной версии браузера: завершена платформа. Финальная версия браузера будет вести себя как и текущая.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    SunSpider IE7 Total:                  23583.8ms +/- 1.7% --------------------------------------------   3d:                    1198.0ms +/- 3.0%    cube:                 356.2ms +/- 10.7%    morph:                375.4ms +/- 7.8%    raytrace:             466.4ms +/- 7.4%  access:                1714.6ms +/- 5.5%    binary-trees:         405.4ms +/- 5.7%    fannkuch:             679.2ms +/- 2.9%    nbody:                358.6ms +/- 14.2%    nsieve:               271.4ms +/- 10.7%  bitops:                1584.6ms +/- 8.4%    3bit-bits-in-byte:    390.8ms +/- 8.1%    bits-in-byte:         394.4ms +/- 10.3%    bitwise-and:          446.2ms +/- 5.5%    nsieve-bits:          353.2ms +/- 15.9%  controlflow:            456.2ms +/- 7.5%    recursive:            456.2ms +/- 7.5%  crypto:                 990.6ms +/- 6.1%    aes:                  363.4ms +/- 10.8%    md5:                  324.2ms +/- 10.4%    sha1:                 303.0ms +/- 5.7%  date:                   818.0ms +/- 10.2%    format-tofte:         402.6ms +/- 11.1%    format-xparb:         415.4ms +/- 10.1%  math:                  1088.4ms +/- 7.2%    cordic:               471.0ms +/- 5.4%    partial-sums:         273.6ms +/- 10.2%    spectral-norm:        343.8ms +/- 10.2%  regexp:                 375.4ms +/- 6.3%    dna:                  375.4ms +/- 6.3%  string:               15358.0ms +/- 1.9%    base64:              7397.4ms +/- 4.0%    fasta:                448.6ms +/- 13.8%    tagcloud:            1556.2ms +/- 6.8%    unpack-code:          440.6ms +/- 12.1%    validate-input:      5515.2ms +/- 2.4% SunSpider IE8 RC1 Total:                  5653.8ms +/- 1.7% --------------------------------------------   3d:                    722.2ms +/- 8.0%    cube:                232.6ms +/- 11.3%    morph:               213.4ms +/- 7.0%    raytrace:            276.2ms +/- 9.8%  access:                948.8ms +/- 6.8%    binary-trees:        193.2ms +/- 13.4%    fannkuch:            394.6ms +/- 9.5%    nbody:               236.4ms +/- 9.0%    nsieve:              124.6ms +/- 10.3%  bitops:                775.0ms +/- 7.2%    3bit-bits-in-byte:    92.8ms +/- 38.8%    bits-in-byte:        137.2ms +/- 14.7%    bitwise-and:         339.8ms +/- 6.6%    nsieve-bits:         205.2ms +/- 10.7%  controlflow:           168.2ms +/- 20.8%    recursive:           168.2ms +/- 20.8%  crypto:                469.8ms +/- 4.6%    aes:                 197.8ms +/- 14.4%    md5:                 136.2ms +/- 29.6%    sha1:                135.8ms +/- 9.7%  date:                  531.0ms +/- 5.6%    format-tofte:        271.2ms +/- 10.8%    format-xparb:        259.8ms +/- 13.3%  math:                  634.6ms +/- 8.8%    cordic:              249.4ms +/- 12.7%    partial-sums:        201.4ms +/- 8.2%    spectral-norm:       183.8ms +/- 20.2%  regexp:                258.2ms +/- 12.0%    dna:                 258.2ms +/- 12.0%  string:               1146.0ms +/- 6.5%    base64:              222.0ms +/- 15.6%    fasta:               296.6ms +/- 13.3%    tagcloud:            237.2ms +/- 8.4%    unpack-code:         181.6ms +/- 20.4%    validate-input:      208.6ms +/- 14.8%

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    left-padding inside an input element is not observed when the text overflows the container width. (e.g. if you type a lot) regression bug from IE8 PR1

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    @steve_web: I have yet to see the Print Preview issues on my XP SP3 machine (a physical machine, not a virtual machine).  Perhaps it is merely a fluke on my machine or I suppose it could be a problem with yours.  It might also be a conflict with Virtual PC or whatever virtual machine you might use if you didn't actually install it on a physical machine.  Care to provide some more details to help the developers determine if they can fix this issue you have?

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    The problem I'm having is when you open a tab. The re-open closed tabs links overlap, maing it very messy. Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    @Steve_web No issues with print preview here on Vista. Do you have those without running in no-addons mode as well ?

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    SunSpider IE8 around 5600ms here

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    Please update the Virtual PC images for IE8 to RC1.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    IE8 RC1 seems to pass previous bugs 154-173+176-178 on this page http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/MSIE8Bugs/ Still some rendering bugs left though

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    @steve_web I'd like to get repro information from you on the print preview issue.  Shoot an email to my alias (mattcrow) at microsoft dot com if you get a chance.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    Nevermind, the tab bug was part of a custom CSS that I use....fixed it.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    @epic fail: "links point to Beta 2 (not even PR1) nor RC1." Thanks for pointing this out. We are publishing the correct version of the document as soon as possible. @George V. Reilly: "Please update the Virtual PC images for IE8 to RC1." The new VPCs are coming. We had some publishing difficulties. Keep watching the site. -Will

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    I think IE devs should see this: I have posted comment on channel 9 video about IE8 RC1, but I don't really bother reposting it here, so here is the link http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Inside-IE-8-RC1-Overview-with-Dean-Hachamovitch-and-Jason-Upton/

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    Thanks to the IE8 team for fixing the bug in the partner release that ignored styles sheets in rich text editors (like TinyMCE).  Saw that you closed the issue too.  (I posted a confirmation comment.) @steve_web:  There's nothing wrong with the bug reporting system (Microsoft Connect), and it definitely doesn't take "30 minutes" to fill out a bug report.  In fact, I've found it to be highly collaborative, in addition to easy-to-use.  It's one of the few bug reporting systems I'm willing to use. All the people reporting bugs in the comments here should be making those reports on the Microsoft Connect page.  Microsoft actually seems to evaluate each one carefully.  I've never had a bug that was not properly addressed.... Other than the lack of a regular-old CSS3 opacity attribute.  :P That better be in SP1.  :/

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    find out everything about the release here http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/01/26/internet-explorer-8-release-candidate-now-available.aspx

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    As I was required to update de Live singin helper addon which seems part of the Live essentials I accidentally installed the Live toolbar. I could now see how slow that loads in the addon helper which show loadtimes for each addon. Very poor load times. Off course I uninstalled the Toolbar now (took me a while finding uit that goes trough uninstalling Live Essentials. You might however want to inform the Live toolbar team that their toolbar is slowing your browser down considerably.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    Open in New Tab (explicitly chosen from context menu, or with middle mouse button) produces a tab that just says "Connecting..." for me too. Open in New Window does absolutely nothing (no errors, no new window, nothing). (Vista x64)

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    in RC1 i still find this bug, the problem of username with "@" character, it breaks the history link, make it unclickable. http://xs135.xs.to/xs135/09052/at_char142.png

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    some bugs that i found while using IE8RC1 : 1.although i rarely use zoom out, when zooming out, some content may become invisible, example: http://www.walla.co.il/ 2.sometimes i get an error page which i can easily refresh it and the error is gone.the window looks like this: http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=20090127114653bz6.png 3.when i installed the web browser on vista , it gave me a waning concerning a "windows live " program , and offered to update it . however, when i chose to update, it didn't succeed entering the update website for it.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
    After installing the Inter Explorer 8 RC1 on my office PC (Vista Ultimate), the rendering of HTML emails in Lotus Notes 8.5 has become incredibly slow. I had the same issue with IE8 Beta 2 and Notes 8.0.2 before. It disappeared after a rollback to IE7. IE is not set as the default browser in Notes, BTW.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
    The middle button scroller still jumps to the end of the document instantly, unlike Beta 1-2 (and every older revision). It did so in the pre-RC1 build too, and it's very annoying.

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
    There is an obvious regression that still hasn't been fixed. It is no more possible to use VML dynamically in IE8 standard mode. Microsoft is aware of it since the very first beta, and the problem is still in the RC1. What is going on???

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
    4187.8ms +/- 4.2% on sunspider here.

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
    Tous les détails ici sur le blog IE : Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate Now Available Les liens de

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
    ie8 rc1 cannot be installed on my system (xpsp3). all the help offered doesn't lead to a solution . another big failure after the win7 beta 1 release . very sad .......

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
    Hallo ! After installing IE 8 RC on my vista ultimate x64 system the vista sidebar does not work. i became only the messege: sidebar does not work and must be closed. Has anyone an Idee. Sincerly Ronald

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
    A critical underline display error has been found since the immediate launch of IE8 RC. Please take a look at this site and you'll find the issue: http://www.tvboxnow.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=23 The underline is broken into several parts. It seems to have something to do with UTF-8 Japanese characters. Please fix it. Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
    Sorry if this is in the wrong place: When typing in the new address bar, is there a way to make the TAB key cycle through all entries in the list rather than just the headers? It is unnatural to move your hand over to the arrow keys to press the DOWN arrow (or, like what happens to me a lot, TAB, then have to press the UP arrow to get back to the first entry. Thank you.

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
    FYI, IE8 completely breaks the http://byu.tv website

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
    Please fix the zoom in/out with huge images.

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
    Some remarks about the layout: I use IE8 RC1 on XP SP3. I have the following turned on:

  • Menu bar
  • Command bar
  • Status bar I've customized the command bar, it only contains the items "Home" and "Print". It is set to "Show icons only". The icons are at the rightmost position of the command bar. In IE7, the same setting worked properly also with the toolbars locked, the "Print" icon did not disappear. Further on, when I have the Favorites pinned to the left side (View / Explorer Bars / Favorites - not to be confused with the "Favorites bar" in the toolbars section), I find it annoying to have both the yellow star on the height of the IE-tabs and the yellow star with the green + sign of the favorites pane below it. In IE7, these icons were side-a-side and not on different heights. It's a waste of screen space. I'd also like to see an option making the "Turn suggested sites on" disappear in the pinned favorites pane. Another bug: When you have set the menu bar to appear where it really belongs (on top of the address bar and NOT below it) with a registry tweak, IE gets confused when you first pin the favorites pane and then de-pin it. The menu bar is then at once shown below the address bar. If you pin the favorites pane again, it's alright. In general I think it should be the default setting to have the classic layout (address bar is BELOW the menu bar).

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
    We are having some technical difficulties publishing the RC1 version of the Internet Explorer Administration Kit 8.  We are working on resolving this as soon as possible.

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
    As someone using the Windows 7 version of I.E. 8 near-RC version, I have two feelings about it. In somethings, its very improved. Definitely in some ways a few steps forward from I.E. 7. It has a lot of potential to be a great browser. However, I do think the Windows 7 version and the RC are in need of a refresh.

  1. Java is still slow even using the latest version from Sun. The Chrome Browser improvements in Java performance should have spurred you guys to get the Java speed up to or faster.
  2. I.E. 8 is still a resource hog that still hangs occassionally. The memory footprint needs to drop significantly. It also crashes a little more frequently than I.E. 7.
  3. There is no way to delete the shell of I.E. 7 or 8 within Windows. One of the reasons why the U.S. and the E.U. has Microsoft in anti-trust cases, is the ubertight integration of the browser and the OS. There should be a removal tool within the Programs and Features menu that allows you to delete the I.E. shell. It would help with anti-trust issues.
  4. There still isn't a download manager build directly made by Microsoft thats available. Considering how easy it is to be kicked offline, this should be a must improvement within I.E. 8. I would hope before I.E 8 becomes RTM, that the I.E. 8 team would make these improvements before its launched. Thank you.

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
    صدرت نسخة إنترنت إكسبلورر الشبه نهائية RC1 و هي متوفرة للتنزيل الأن عبر تلك الروابط .. نسخة ويندوز إكس بي -- ويندوز فيستا و لكن تم عمل اختبارا سريعا لنسخة انترنت إكسبلورر 8 مقابل نسخة بيتا 2 من فايرفوكس 3.1 في إختبار Acid 3 الذي يظهر توافق أداء المتصفح مع المعاير المستخدمة من قبل صفحات الانترنت الحالية و لكن أثبتت كفاءة 20% مقابل 93% كفاءة للفايرفوكس . و ذلك يعنى أن إنترنت إكسبلورر لم يتخطى عقباته الأخيرة بهذا الإصدار . و من خلال التجربة لمن يحاول تنزيل النسخة من المواقع سالفة الذكر يرى مشكلة بالموقع الرسمي حيث يقوم الموقع بتوجيهك إلى نسخة بيتا 2 بدل نسخة RC1.

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
    Suddenly with IE8 RC1 we our cookies are being ignored, and cookie headers are not being set.  We had posted a similar, though not as serious, issue on Connect with FEEDBACK# 392032.  Microsoft responded that this bug was resolved in RC1.  However the problem is actually worse with RC1.  A trace shows the server is definitely sending the cookies, but a simple asp page shows them to be blank.  We have set up a test page here: http://www.plex.com/test/session_cookie_bugtest.asp

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
    After updating from IE8 beta2 to IE8 RC1 i get some trobles. In Maxthon (http://maxthon.com) when creating new tab sometimes you will see desktop. When clicking on the link on some page, tab is blinking. Integration ReGet (http://reget.com/) now don't work.

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
    https://twnyc.convergentcare.com/twnyc/validateSelfCareCustomer.do?action=initialize Still fails in IE8 RC1 and redirects you to the link below. https://twnyc.convergentcare.com/twnyc/javascriptFailure.do?failure=browserlevel

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
    IE Team, I added 4 bugs (2 regressions) which happens in RC1 build 18372: www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/MSIE8Bugs/#bug209 Referring to connect IE beta feedback bug ids:

  • 339309: fixed but text underlining is now at baseline and it's rather thick
  • 362142: not fixed
  • 389191: not fixed
  • #201 in my IE 8 bugs webpage: this one has been reported several times in several places since 2005
  • 389777, 399794 and #209 must be fixed before final release IMO: people who need to view a page with larger font/text size should not be penalized here Regards, Gérard

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2009
    where do I submit feedback now? The Connect website says: Page Not Found The content that you requested cannot be found or you do not have permission to view it. If you believe you have reached this page in error, click the Help link at the top of the page to report the issue and include this ID in your e-mail: adae316f-3e71-4b10-9fd0-5866b535c12a

  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2009
    I'd like to get repro information from you on the print preview issue.  Shoot an email to my alias (mattcrow) at microsoft dot com if you get a chance.

  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2009
    Can you guys please fix the zooming in/out when viewing huge images? it lags a lot, firefox 3 doesn't have this problem. here is a picture for example: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-109/hires/sts109-729-072.jpg open it in IE8 RC1, wait for it to load completely then see how extremely laggy zooming get.

  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2009
    Sorry for all the commenting issues going on right now.  We are working to resolve the issue asap. The IEAK is now availble.  You can retrieve it from here: http://ieak.microsoft.com

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    January 28, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2009
    One of the things I liked in IE6 that was missing in IE7 and I'd like to see in IE8 is the ability to move my Favorites Bar up beside my Menu Bar.  It's not much, but that 1/4" is valuable real estate.

  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2009
    Since the release of Internet Explorer 8 beta 2, we’ve listened, watched and learned a lot about how

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    January 28, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2009
    On http://www.Expedia.ca/ when you try to use the calendar to pick a departure date/return date for a trip it doesn't work in IE8 standards mode (unless you click the little arrow to move forward a month, then go back a month) I realize this might be due to Expedia's code, but it was likely expecting bad IE rendering.

  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2009
    on https://www.continental.com/ in IE8 RC1 standards mode you can't pick the second calendar icon to select a date when booking a flight. It shows the: "Internet Explorer can not display the web page" error message in a floating iframe? Both calendars work for hotels... The first calendar for cars fails, but the second one works.

  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2009
    on http://www.kayak.com/ neither one of the calendars work in IE8 RC1 in standards mode. This is for the flights, hotels, cars and vacations calendars.

  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2009
    The 64 bit version of IE8 RC1 doesn't work on my Windows XP Professional x64. I get an "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" error no matter which URL I enter. Looks like it can't connect to the net at all. Luckily the 32 bit version of IE8 RC1 still works fine. I upgraded from IE8 Beta to RC1 through Microsoft Update.

  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2009
    The rendering of ptable.com by IE8 is embarrassing. At least fix some of the bugs affecting it before releasing.

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    January 29, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2009
    Is there any ETA for bulgarian localization?

  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2009
    FYI, IE8 RC1 completely breaks http://www.byu.tv/

  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2009
    @Gerard I'm on Vista. The test on: http://www.brunildo.org/test/IE8RC1-after-change-text-size.html fails Your #209 test changes in wrapping when text is resized but stays (correctly?) in the gray area. The wrapped lines fill the grey area nicely to the end on all sizes.

  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2009
    @Gerard Talbot #207 Seems fine here. The text under the title column wraps nicely when the pages text size are ignored (and thus the text size are larger)

  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2009
    when the page is zoom as 400%, and i click view source, the font in source viewer becomes very big also. I cannot change to normal size even i click Text size to default?

  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2009
    @Gerard Talbot Also from your tables with bugs listed under IE8 beta 2 (#103-#130 and #154-#188) most now seem to render fine with RC1

  • Anonymous
    January 30, 2009
    Rappellez-vous ! que le format OOXML de MS a été validé par l'ISO en 2008. Il y a toujours la présence du VML pour les tracés vectoriels afin de garder une compatibilité descendante pour les vieux sites web et applications. Il y a aussi le fameux tag <META HTTP-EQUIV="X-UA-Compatible" CONTENT="IE=EmulateIE7" /> en plus qui permet de d'imposer le mode de compatibilité désiré. En ce qui concerne IE 8 vous pouvez toujours découvrir sa face caché et surtout ce que l'on peut faire avec les langages propriétaires de MS depuis 1998 avec le HTML- JAVASCRIPT - VML - HTML+TIME - TDC. http://nitroblog.mediasites.fr/nitroblog/post/index/39/Un-site-web-vectoriel-30-sous-IE-8 Un petit rappel, PAGEDITOR PRO est un éditeur WYSIWYG vectoriel qui permet sans programmation de réaliser un site web de bonne facture pour 85% des internautes de la planète. Voici la preuve sous IE en version 6-7-8 : http://www.plein-air-locations.fr Encore une fois vous rêvez tous à un monde ou MS ne devrait ne plus réguler la planète ! sachez que l'on à mis 30 ans à assimiler le mot  "Traitement de texte" à Word... Patrick GUINBERTEAU

  • Anonymous
    January 30, 2009
    Remember-you! that the MS OOXML format has been posted by ISO in 2008. There are always the presence of the VML for vector draw to keep a backward compatibility for old sites web and applications. There is also the famous tag < META HTTP-MATCH = "X-UA-Compatible" CONTENT = "IE = EmulateIE7" / > In addition that enables of to impose the desired compatibility mode. As regards IE 8 you can still discover the hidden face and especially that can do with the owners of MS since 1998 with the HTML-JAVASCRIPT - languages VML - TIME HTML - TDC. http://nitroblog.mediasites.fr/nitroblog/post/index/39/Un-site-Web-vectoriel-30-sous-IE-8 A small reminder, PAGEDITOR PRO is a vector WYSIWYG editor that allows without programming to achieve a good invoice for 85 % of users of the planet website. Here is the evidence under IE version 6-7-8: http://www.plein-air-locations.fr Yet once you dream all in a world or MS should no longer regulate the planet! Note that is to put 30 years to assimilate the word processing of text to Word... Patrick GUINBERTEAU

  • Anonymous
    January 30, 2009
    well,well i guess, you in the ie team want me to do odd hours to fix your different verions of ie6,ie7 and ie8. ie8 is just Next 0.001_01 developper release but you dare to call it a release candidate... don't get me wrong but do your job and stop making me loose my precious time that i could spend with my wife and children. i have no problem to submit bugs when i found them and i've been doing so but hey, it was a beta and i thought there will be still plenty of time. but no, you're certainly trying to get the express ie8 rc out so that you can start selling windows7 with it. right. do your job first and give the release the name it should have and to help you it doesn't contain the words Release and candidate in it.

  • Anonymous
    January 30, 2009
    Am I missing something? This page (http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en) says that "IE8RC1-XPSP3.exe contains a Windows XP SP3 with IE8 RC1 VHD file" in the Overviw, but if you look in the "Files in This Download" section, it is just not there--it is IE8B2-XPSP3.exe

  • Anonymous
    January 30, 2009
    When I opening a new tab, it clicks rapidly back and forth between "new tab" and "connecting." If I let it go for a minute or so all the entire browser turns black and white and does not respond - must be closed with task manager. Build 18372 on Vista Home Premium, Dell XPS system.

  • Anonymous
    January 30, 2009
    I am noticing that there is still a CCS problem with the "hover" pseudo-class. It is failing to activate the background image for the top navigation for this site: acupuncturebydawn.com If you notice, it activates the "hover" pseudo-class until the mouse is over the link inside the li item. Once the mouse is over the link inside the li, the "hover" pseudo-class drops the background image swap. All other browsers handle this correctly, so it seems unique to IE8

  • Anonymous
    January 30, 2009
    I am noticing that there is still a CCS problem with the "hover" pseudo-class. It is failing to activate the background image for the top navigation for this site: acupuncturebydawn.com If you notice, it activates the "hover" pseudo-class until the mouse is over the link inside the li item. Once the mouse is over the link inside the li, the "hover" pseudo-class drops the background image swap. All other browsers handle this correctly, so it seems unique to IE8

  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2009
    I get an "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" error no matter which URL I enter. Looks like it can't connect to the net at all. <a href="http://www.kingofgames.net" title="juegos"><font color="white">juegos</font></a> <font color="white"></font><a href="http://www.kingofgames.net" title="Oyunlar"><font color="white">Oyunlar</font></a> <font color="white"></font><a href="http://www.kingofgames.net" title="Kostenlos Spiele"><font color="white">Spiele</font></a> <font color="white"></font><a href="http://www.kingofgames.net" title="Free games"><font color="white">Free<br /> games</font></a> <font color="white"></font><a href="http://www.kingofgames.net" title="Spill<br /> Spill"><font color="white">Spill</font></a><font color="white"></font>

  • Anonymous
    February 01, 2009
    @Nicholas: You're right, I too don't see it there.  I just found a different page that has IE8RC1-XPSP3.exe available for download. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7c2b5317-a40f-4e86-8835-d37170c5923e&displaylang=en

  • Anonymous
    February 01, 2009
    Kirk, thanks for reporting these issues. We’re investigating the usairways issue now…The kayak and expedia issues are known and will be fixed. The alaskaair.com issue that you describe is fixed in a newer build. continental.com seems to have a site issue – but we’re looking into it. Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2009
    @Ben Amada: Thanks for that! Looks like they goofed and published a whole new document instead of updating the old one.

  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2009
    Is there a VPC image of IE8 RC1 on Vista?  I downloaded the IE8 RC1 image for XP-SP3, but why isn't there one for Vista?  Isn't Vista the current, preferable operating system of the two?

  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2009
    When I perform the following cookies are not deleted: BrowserOS: Windows 2007 and IE8 RC1. Steps:

  1. Go to a site that loads cookies, like msn.com.
  2. Open a blank page in IE8 RC1.
  3. Click on Tools->Internet Options
  4. In the dialog under Browsing History, click the "Delete..." button.
  5. Check the following buttons: "Preserve Favorites website data" "Temporary Internet Files" "Cookies" "History"
  6. Press the "delete" button.
  7. Close the browser.
  8. Re-open the browers and go to the site above. EXPECTED: Cookies are deleted. ACTUAL: Cookies are NOT deleted. NOTE: If I only check the "Cookies" checkbox, then the cookies are deleted.

  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2009
    @Tyler, presumably you have one or more favorites pointed at Microsoft/MSN, and thus need to clear the "Preserve Favorites website data" checkbox if you want those cookies deleted.

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    February 02, 2009
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    February 02, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 03, 2009
    Installed the RC1 on Vista 64.  I get the add-on was blocked message for Windows Live Login Helper Object.  If you check for updates using the dialog presented you are redirected to a page which is no help (as noted in several other posts). The message bar indicates that all add-ons are disabled.   Major functionality in various applications is not working (ie. Outlook, Media Player, Windows Live, etc...) Sorry guys, THIS IS NOT A RELEASE CANDIDATE. Thanks, JMac.

  • Anonymous
    February 03, 2009
    JMac: Can you provide us with more info on "Major functionality in various applications is not working (ie. Outlook, Media Player, Windows Live, etc...)" Also: " If you check for updates using the dialog presented you are redirected to a page which is no help (as noted in several other posts)." We've received this feedback loud and clear :) We will be improving this for the final release.

  • Anonymous
    February 03, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 03, 2009
    At Microsoft&#8217;s IEBlog, Dean Hachamovitch announces that an Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate is now available: We&#8217;re excited to make the IE8 Release Candidate available today for public download today in 25 languages for Windows Vista,

  • Anonymous
    February 03, 2009
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    February 03, 2009
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    February 03, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 03, 2009
    @EricLaw [MSFT] if the "Preserve Favorites website data" will preserve cookies and temp internet files, there is no meaning for cookies and temp internet file keep being checked. May be you can toggle each other when they are checked? (e.g. when checked "Preserve Favorites website data", other two will be unchecked, if cookies or temp internet file is checked, "Preserve Favorites website data" will be unchecked too)

  • Anonymous
    February 04, 2009
    @Wai: I think you misunderstand the feature. "Preserve Favorite website data" acts as a filter.  If you check it, then all of the other selected items will be deleted EXCEPT if those items belong to one of your Favorite websites. For instance, say I have 1000 files in my cache and 100 cookies.  Of those 1000 files and 100 cookies, say 20 files and 2 cookies belong to the 2 sites I have in my favorites folder.  If I select to delete everything but preserve favorite website data, when the delete process completes, my browser will hold 2 cookies and 20 cache files.

  • Anonymous
    February 04, 2009
    @ EricLaw [MSFT]: thanks for your explanation :)

  • Anonymous
    February 04, 2009
    Windows 7: IE8 issue Open in New Tab/New Window opens a new tab that says "Connecting..." but does nothing.

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    February 04, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2009
    A few weeks back, we announced Compatibility View improvements available in the Release Candidate build

  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2009
    try this url using IE8 RC1 http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?ForumId=49&TopicId=28093 I have quite a few encounters of hangs like that.

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    February 06, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 07, 2009
    Today I installed Windows 7 Beta which includes IE8, all working fine but unfortunately I have a problem with add-ons, like Google toolbar, status its indicating enabled, IE yellow bar says disabled and not evailable as well, pls assist.(dell optiplex 745 c2d)

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    We wanted to let you know that an update was released earlier today that will improve Internet Explorer’s

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Hi All, I wanted to let you know that an update was released earlier today that will improve Internet

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Hi All, I wanted to let you know that an update was released earlier today that will improve Internet

  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2009
    Hello, my name is Amy Placzkiewicz and I’m a Lead Software Design Engineer in Test on Internet Explorer’s

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2009
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