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Interner Explorer RC1: Not bad for a Microsoft browser. But kinda creaky

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"Someday, I suspect, browsers will dump their search fields and just use the address bar for everything."

Google Chrome does that; personally I love it. (When I go back to Firefox I always resent having to press an extra tab to go to the search field.)

Everything old is new again. The first browser to do this was IE 6 (or maybe even 5). People didn't get it (it wasn't discoverable enough), and people complained that the browser was helping Microsoft spy on them.

Google only improved the UI a little and made Google the default instead of MSN search.

this proofs why ui is important

IE5 had an add-in (a power toy I think) that allowed you to create a string as a shortcut to a search engine so you could type something like the following into the address field:

   g:foo

and do a google search for 'foo'.

Agreed. When everyone was moving to Firefox because it was 'lighter weight', I stuck with the Mozilla suite because one of the things I liked was searching from the address bar. And this was years ago. It's ironic that the same people criticising the Mozilla browser for being 'clumsier' are now praising Chrome for being more streamlined.

To each his/her own. I prefer Firefox's ctrl-K for the search box. and get frustrated by Chrome's insistence on giving me search results for a domain I type in the address bar after I press ctrl-Enter to automatically asume a dot-com (shift-Enter for .net or ctrl-shift-Enter for .org).

I love Chrome's visual cues for in-page search results. If only they'd implement incremental search like Opera and Firefox (and Vim): '/'+search, instead of the more cumbersome c-F.

I remove the search bar in Firefox and just use the address bar for searches. It searches Google and if the result is popular enough it goes directly to that page.

"If you’re still using Internet Explorer 6 (as about 30% of Technologizer readers who use IE are) and want to stick with a Microsoftian browser, I beseech you: PLEASE upgrade to IE 8. " - nice))

Do the IE6 users even know that they are in fact ... IE6 users?

I think the call to action is falling on deaf ears.

I don't want to fire up VMWare to install IE8 since it's been slow on me lately, but have they done anything to improve debugging or do we still need visual studio or another external app for that?

And can you install this alongside IE7 or is there the same problem that IE7 had where it wouldn't work properly alongside IE6 for testing?

Hmmm, googling mentions something about new developer tools built-in, as well as an IE7 rendering mode. Waiting for the download to see for myself. This sounds promising!

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