CNET Download.com my profile log out Home Reviews News /You are here:/Downloads Video How To Windows Software Mac Software Mobile Apps Web Apps Join the conversation. upgrade to Internet Explorer 8 here. Sponsored by Microsoft close Home Windows Software Browsers Web Browsers Internet Explorer **Internet Explorer** Visit Site (15.35MB) This software is not hosted by CNET CNET editors' rating: 5.0 stars Average user rating: 2.0 stars out of 1640 votes See all user reviews CNET Editor's Note The Download Now link will take you to the Microsoft download site, where you can select your operating system. Quick specs *Version:* 8 *Date added:* March 19, 2009 *Price:* Free *Operating system:* Windows XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008 *Total Downloads:* 18,221,160 *Downloads last week:* 82,603 *Product Ranking:* #3 in Web Browsers See full specifications member lists . Want it* * Seth Rosenblatt on March 19, 2009 Internet Explorer 8 addresses just about all of the major concerns that users and critics have had with the world's most used browser. Whether they get answered in a way you like is another matter. There are several new and interesting features. Web Slices lets you save predefined sections of a Web page for at-a-glance viewing. Instead of going to a traffic Web site for updates, the latest commuting news comes to you. Similarly, Accelerators make repetitive tasks one-click behaviors, for instance finding directions or blogging. InPrivate browsing introduces a cache and history on-off switch, while related tabs are color-coded and automatically reorganized as you open them. There's also tab sandboxing, which means that when a tab crashes, IE itself won't, and it even tries to resurrect the page that crashed. There's a greater emphasis on Web standards and security than before. The SmartScreen and cross-site scripting filters throw up a red warning page when you're about to visit an unsafe site. There's also domain highlighting, which grays out the name of the URL you're looking at except for the domain itself. This sounds simple, but effectively draws attention to spoofed site URLs. There's also a compatibility button so that sites designed specifically for IE 7 and earlier can still be viewed. IE 8 lacks a default "smart" location bar that many other browsers have, but you can search your history and most visited pages from there. Also, the installation process still requires a reboot--unimpressive, to say the least. Drawbacks aside, there's no reason to not upgrade if you're an old fan of IE, and there's even a few things in IE 8 for new users. 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Download Now All versions: 2.4 stars out of 1640 votes 5 stars 345 4 stars 0 stars *Write review* See reviews for: Current version All versions Sort by: Date Most helpful Positive rating Negative rating 1 ... 55 next 5 stars Version: Internet Explorer 8 "wow! wonderful" by leysenouacorte on July 19, 2011 *Pros:* It has high speed and there are so many options to choose,you will enjoy it so much! *Cons:* not so far *Was this review helpful?* (0) (0) Report this post Permalink to this post Will_Hoffmann on July 17, 2011 *Pros:* None, I even downgraded to IE8. *Cons:* Horrible user interface and slow. *Summary:* Microsoft tried to call attention to this version of the browser focusing solely on the new "look". Instead they shloud have kept to the basics trying to make a faster and lighter webbrowser. Good way to go microsoft I hope in the next version you are able to bury IE forever!! *Was this review helpful?* (0) (0) Report this post Permalink to this post rub on July 16, 2011 *Pros:* It started fast enough and got to the sites reasonably well. It even tolerated some of the sites. *Cons:* The only way MS can be sure of security is by crashing their browser at the drop of a hat.. When that doesn't work, freezing usually does but that means crashing the OS and re-starting. *Summary:* Maybe waiting a few days would work too. But I'm tired of waiting for the innnnccccrrrreddddibbbbblllllyyyyyy slow Vista to sort itself out and waiting for MS to make up it's mind ( MIND - HUH!!!!!) Frankly, I'd prefer 98SE and all the malware. It would be faster overall to reload the OS and start over. Has everbody forgotten what it was like with a non-intrusive OS that figured it was the operator's job to control the flow of info. That's what keyboards are for, not to rubber-stamp all the MS popups. *Was this review helpful?* (0) (0) Report this post Permalink to this post JR573 on July 12, 2011 *Pros:* When you close it out. *Cons:* Everything. *Summary:* Should be ashamed to put out something like this. Try Opera 11.50 or Firefox - 2 outstanding browsers, especially compared to this trash. *Was this review helpful?* (1) (0) Report this post Permalink to this post sunnyr72 on July 12, 2011 *Pros:* ccleaner works very good *Cons:* ccleaner is no one in the world. *Summary:* ccleaner is very very good to run webside smooth and fast. *Was this review helpful?* (0) (0) Report this post Permalink to this post werjhjasdfh on July 8, 2011 *Pros:* The new version has several new features. *Cons:* I hope it can be stable. *Was this review helpful?* (0) (0) Report this post Permalink to this post caseyclaassen on July 2, 2011 *Pros:* many useful features that are all easy to manage *Cons:* somewhat slower *Was this review helpful?* (0) (0) Report this post Permalink to this post ravipbhat on July 1, 2011 *Pros:* Faster,Low RAM usage,Lesser Crashes ie Stable,Works for government and other public sites (I live in INDIA,most of the e-facilities support this browser). *Cons:* Less Addons,No support for addons,themes,etc. *Summary:* I was never a big IE fan,for me it was either Chrome or Firefox,but baby this IE version is changing things,soon I feel it might dominate the other two.It has gone past firefox for me right now,yet chrome is no1. *Was this review helpful?* (1) (0) Report this post Permalink to this post dfreesoft01 on June 27, 2011 *Pros:* Nice Interface and easy to use *Cons:* Extremely slow, locks up, and crashes. I don't know why anybody would continue to use IE 8.0 with the other great browser available! *Was this review helpful?* (1) (0) Report this post Permalink to this post bigv2011 on June 22, 2011 *Pros:* Nothing- don't even think about this product *Cons:* Very very slow, a third world browser. Crashes frequently, unreadable web pages *Summary:* Could rate it -1, but 1-star will do. Using FireFox and Chrome as my primary web browsing. *Was this review helpful?* (1) (0) Report this post Permalink to this post 1 2 3 ... 55 next *Write review* *Thanks for your submission!* Thank you for helping us maintain CNET's great community. **Submit your review** Quickly sign in with: Click here to review our site terms of use. Click here to review our site terms of use. CNET's Site Terms of Use , you can report it below (this will not automatically remove the comment). 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