IE 8 Beta 2 Goes Public

Ok, so I'm making this post from IE 8 Beta 2. I just downloaded it and installed it and overall, I'm going to just go out and say it, I'm really impressed with Microsoft this time. They did an overall good job with IE 8 and they fixed a lot of the things I had taken up issue with in IE 7...HOWEVER, that is not to say that I have found my fair share of things that really just piss me off.

Thing 1: Addons (biggest pet pieve thus far)
I'm not sure what it is, but for some God forsaken reason, Microsoft feels it's necessary to make their addons actual installed programs on your computer. This is a terrible, terrible idea in my sincerest opinion. Firefox had the grand idea of making addons and extensions only a part of firefox and they were installed as such, but for some reason Microsoft thought that making them programs that isntall on your computer like every other program was a good idea. All I know is that this is annoying. The first thing I did when I got IE8 was to install some extensions to see the new line up and I found one called Adblocker...I'm thinking of ABP (Ad Blocker Plus) on firefox and I said ok...it isntalls like a normal executable program and puts a TASKBAR ICON ON MY COMPUTER....WAIT WHAT!?...o no, the extension just infested my computer and then wanted me to buy it or have a 15 day trial of the adblocker...HELL NO...extensions, just like IE, should be free...way to go on that one...

Thing 2: Accelerators
Ok, these are a great idea, great concept but they were poorly executed...or possibly just still buggy but it seems all too convenience of a problem to be accidental. Whenever you use one of these accelerators, whether it be the Blogger one like I'm using to post this or Google Maps or whatever, if there is a search box or a text input field available on the page it pulls up, it will automatically fill it in with a link that goes to the "ieaddons.com" page and yes, you can just erase it, but WHY??? If it's something that's there to create a convenience, why on earth would you put something in it that everyone will clearly find to be a nuasance? Is this Microsofts new policy or something, "for ever convenience there has to be an equal and opposite inconvenience"...no, sorry Microsoft, you're not Sr. Isaac Newton it doesn't work that way for you.

My list of issues goes on for a few more, but I realize this is a long post, at least in terms of my posts, so I'm going to leave it there. But just to list a few more of my issues: tab coloring; why is it randomized whenever I open a new one? Address bar, the whole address other then the main "urlhere.com" is faded out...wtf? And of course, the ever present "Smart Screen Filter" formerly known as Phishing filter or whatever it was in IE 7...pointless and it blocks some legitemate sites so it doesn't relaly need to be there...O yea, and pardon any spelling errors in this post as well because in version 8 they have still failed to include spellcheck like Firefox has had for several versions now...

Till later...