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Internet Explorer, which comes by default with Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, and Windows 7 Ultimate edition, is the fastest, easiest, and safest browser ever. This article takes you through some of the interesting new features that you will hardly find in other browsers.This is based on a Windows 7 issues.

Instant search

Instant search in IE 8 makes your work easy and displays a list of relevant suggestions the moment you start typing. You can quickly access favorites in your Windows 7.

Web Slices

How often do you check your favorite website? Now, with Web Slices, its easier to find changes on a Website. When you spot the green Web Slices icon on a site, click it. If something changes on that site, the Web Slices icon in your Favorites bar lights up. Point to the glowing icon to see what's changed.

Accelerators

IE 8 introduces a new feature called Accelerators. Now its easy to do things without navigating to other websites. Just highlight some text, then click the blue Accelerator icon that appears to see what you can do.

Compatibility View

If a webpage doesn't look right, just click the new Compatibility View button on the Address bar. The button corrects misaligned text or images on pages designed for older browsers.

Internet Explorer's Crash Recovery

It automatically closes and attempts to recover the tab without affecting other open tabs.

Internet Explorer Developer Tools

Now its easy to to create websites without having to custom-tailor them for each browser, and can view and debug web-pages right in Internet Explorer on Windows 7..

SmartScreen Filter

It protects users from phishing attacks, online fraud, and spoofed websites, as well as websites that contains malicious software.

InPrivate Browsing

With In Private Browsing, no one can track your details. This helps prevent anyone else who might be using your system from seeing where you visited and what you looked at on the web.

Cross-site Scripting

It protects you from hackers and web attack. Not only this it also protects users from malicious websites from stealing your personal information when surf Internet.

Internet Explorer 8 with Windows 7 helps you surf the Internet quicker. With the latest version of IE on Windows 7 you need not open up a new window to find information such as driving directions. You can get the information without leaving the page you are on by using Accelerators.

The feature combines your browsing history with detailed suggestions from your favorite search providers in order to lead you to more targeted search results.

Since, IE 8 is loaded with the new SmartScreen technology, it provides you with instant and complete protection against malicious software and phishing attacks that can breach your security, privacy and identity.

As IE 8 is equipped with InPrivate Browsing, which provides the option to prevent browsing history, cookies, usernames and passwords from being retained by the browser, it is comparatively safer than the previous Internet Explorer.

Due to the new automatic crash recovery feature inscribed in Windows 7, if Internet Explorer 8 encounters a poorly built site that causes a tab to crash, only that tab will close, which is affected.