Web Slices

Put the web at your service and experience the best browser for what you do every day—faster, easier, and safer than ever.

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Facebook status updates

If you use Facebook, you'll love the ability to see the latest status updates from your friends by simply clicking on the Facebook Status Updates Web Slice in the new Favorites bar.

Monitor eBay auctions

If you're bidding on an eBay item, simply subscribe to the auction itself as a Web Slice and you can constantly track status, even make bids, no matter where you are currently browsing. If you've been outbid or the auction has been updated, the Favorites bar will notify you instantly.

See the best of the web in real time

Use the new StumbleUpon Web Slice to see the most popular pages from around the web at any given hour. If you are ever wondering where to go next, this Web Slice will deliver links to the most visited, highly rated sites on the Internet.

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As part of our daily web browsing, most of us visit many different sites. Browsing directly to each of our favorite sites to stay up to date can be time consuming, and in some cases, not really possible. What if the most compelling content from our favorite websites was delivered to us instead? Internet Explorer 8 Web Slices brings it to you.

Web Slices allow you to subscribe to portions of your favorite websites and, with a single click in the Favorites bar, view and interact with the latest updates you care about most. See the latest headlines from your favorite news service, check the status of—or even bid on—an auction, or view status updates from your social network, all without leaving your current page.

Also in Internet Explorer 8:

Better security and privacy

Internet Explorer 8 provides great tools to help protect your privacy and safety online while providing additional user choice and control

Improve your day-to-day browsing experience while having the peace of mind to shop, bank, email, and search the web with confidence.

Do you want to be better protected from phishing and malicious software downloads? Concerned about identity theft and your privacy? Need to browse with more privacy for that special gift online? The latest version of Internet Explorer has been designed to address these potential threats and more.

Put the web at your service today and enjoy additional freedom from intrusion, more control of your personal information, and added privacy.

Find out more about the improved security and privacy features in Internet Explorer 8 here

Accelerators

Internet Explorer 8 Accelerators make it faster and easier to connect the web services you care about to any webpage you browse. There are tasks most of us use the web for every day, such as looking up addresses using a mapping service, sharing content on a social network, or searching for products from a retail service. Each of these tasks requires numerous steps from start to finish—until now. With Accelerators in Internet Explorer 8, we're making these experiences much simpler.

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Your Feedback

During the Beta period we're asking for community feedback to ensure we deliver the best possible Internet Explorer 8. If you have any comments or concerns during this Beta period, we'd love to hear from you.

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