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Microsoft just released the firs RC build of Internet Explorer 8.

For more information and downloads, visit the official site.

Microsoft just published IE8 Beta 2. There are only 4 languages available, English, German, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.

There is also an improved Internet Explorer Gallery site, where you can download new and updated addons for IE8.

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Today, Microsoft has revealed Internet Explorer 8 new features.

According to this news, IE8 will render everything in a new standards-based mode, instead of the old rendering that IE7 and previous versions employed.

The new features include:

• Activities
• WebSlices
• Favorites Bar
• Automatic Crash Recovery
• Improved Phishing Filter

To read about them, visit the official site. The site explains and shows examples of every feature.

A few weeks ago, it happened to me that after doing some unattended installations, when i first ran IE7 (all installations were Windows Vista) the Runonce page didn’t show up as usual. Instead it was giving out an error like this:

An HTTP error occurred while getting:



Details: "connect timed out".

The reason is yet to be known but apparently the site is having problems, as i read on some sites yesterday that the problems is growing and it is intermittent, meaning that sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

I have a quick fix if you are running new installations or running Internet Explorer for the first time.

Simply copy this text and save it as somename.reg and double click on the newly created file to merge its contents to the registry.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"RunOnceHasShown"=dword:00000001
"RunOnceComplete"=dword:00000001