Internet Explorer 8 enhances privacy and security

Network Explorer - Internet Explorer recently lost market share to competitors with the company that Mozilla's Firefox and Apple's Safari or Google's Chrome are in beta, but Microsoft still hopes to regaining its market share with Internet Explorer 8, the browser is expected to be released in the next few months. After experimenting through all four browsers, we found that IE 8 could become the simplest browser to deploy and maintain on a large or small network.

In addition, IE 8 features will become appropriate or be removed from this browser when the final version is released. Here are some comparisons of the key features available in IE8 and a discussion of why companies should use IE8 instead of other browsers.

Easy to deploy

IE 8 appears to suit companies that want to accept a browser on a large network. Microsoft has equipped IE 8 with built-in deployment features and based on the company's existing deployment and upgrade platforms. In contrast, Mozilla relies on custom add-ons for third-party clients such as MSI's FrontMotion Firefox , CCK Wizard or FirefoxADM ; Safari and Chrome still do not offer options for deploying on wide area networks.

Microsoft hopes to automatically convert IE 8 into IE 7 compatibility mode when needed. However, due to versions of IE 7 and earlier versions do not follow web standards and this error forces web developers to write code for their pages to render on IE. When deployed on a network, IE 8 will not interrupt the internal network of the company: internal or internal network sites will automatically switch to compatibility mode with IE 7 so that businesses do not have to adjust. Back to their sites. Similarly, surfing the web or browsing outside of IE 8 also switches to standard mode. In this regard, since Firefox, Chrome and Safari adapt to web standards over time, they do not need this compatibility mode.

Get a page from Google Chrome, IE 8 will provide protection for the attached tab. When a certain event of the page fails, it only affects that tab and the browser is not broken. Current versions of Firefox and Safari lack this isolation feature. However, Firefox will restore the entire browsing session after the browser is broken; A similar feature in Safari called 'Reopen All Windows from Last Session' also lets you restore previous windows or ended sessions due to crashes.

Better performance

Through what Microsoft has announced, IE 8 is set to make a significant step forward in this area. When the links on the pages open in a new tab, the relevant tabs will appear in the color code next to the original tab. Chrome, Firefox and Safari do not have this feature. In other words, Chrome, Safari and Firefox 3.1 can pull a tab out of the browser and create a completely new browser session; IE 8 is not able to do it but can provide some interesting features inside each tab: When you open a new tab, the browser will give you the option to reopen a closed or restored tab. revisit the previous browsing session.

There is only one thing that IE 8 has "accelerator" - shortcuts to services that open inside a web page. Instead of 'cut' and 'paste' to another tab, simply highlight the text and click the blue Accelerator icon to open the blog, email, map, search and even translation services. Art on the page you are viewing. This 'page in page' feature is not available in Firefox browsers (when not using add-ons), Chrome or Safari.

Web Slices, another supposedly different feature of IE 8, is designed to check a specific part of the site without having to visit again. You just need to select the page component and drag it into your toolbar to see if necessary. Companies can use Web Slices to transfer information on the intranet and access corporate services.

Mozilla has focused on its address bar in Firefox 3, the so-called "Awesome Bar" because it displays URL suggestions from previous browsing or bookmarks. IE 8 will also have this feature, but it also has a distinct ability to delete those suggestions - a feature not found in Firefox. Removing suggestions can help prevent theft from the back or reduce privacy issues when using the same computer.

Privacy

If you share your computer with some other users, you may prefer that the sites you visit are not included in your browser history or that any new cookies that have been created are deleted when the last browsing session finish. Safari is the first browser to offer Private Browsing security. Chrome also responded to users with Incognito, while Firefox is also planning to add some privacy forms to its 3.1 release.

With IE 8, Microsoft will introduce In Private browsing. Both IE 8 (when released) and Chrome (now) display visual indicators - icons in the upper left corner - to alert you when you are in a separate session. private. Safari does not provide comments explicitly, but Firefox has not mentioned changes to the user interface. With private browsing, all other side of the browsing session will disappear when the session ends, though the logs of your visits will be maintained on external web servers.

The private browsing feature appears to provide security, but both Apple and Microsoft maintain a cache that includes Private Browsing sessions. Is that a contradiction? Not contradictory here. Apple uses DS cache so that the Safari browser does not need to request DNS information continuously on frequently accessed sites, and IE 8 saves information about the In Private sessions of sites. However, both Apple and Microsoft say that you can delete this cache through configuration options.

Security

Perhaps the most frustrating aspect before in Internet Explorer versions is poor security. So Microsoft has significantly added to this competition, starting by examining each line of code with its 'Trustworthy Computing' feature. Both IE 8 (running in Protected Mode) and Chrome will run in low integrity, meaning that they cannot launch applications without the user's permission. Both browsers are designed to use 'Data Execution Prevention' and 'Address Space Layout Representation' to protect against the execution of remote malware. However, neither Firefox nor Safari has this protection feature.

All new browsers support Extended Verification SSL, a new way of establishing trust in a site you are visiting. Only Safari does not change its address bar bar to green to signal extra security. All four browsers have anti-phishing protection, although Safari 3.2 only stops here and still doesn't provide anti-malware protection.

Cross-Site Scripting and other features

Cross-site scripting attacks (or "XSS" for short) export when a malicious site uses Javascipt to read or write data to another site. Unlike the other three competitors, IE 8 provides built-in XSS protection. Firefox recommends that users install No Script, a third-party add-on. However, both Chrome and Safari have not yet provided this protection.

"Clickjacking", a term coined by a security researcher named Jeremiah Grossman at WhiteHat Security and Robert Hansen of SecTheory, refers to offensive actions such as tricking users with a click. relates to a secret link and thereby performs bad actions, such as activating a peripheral like a Webcam or deleting data from a certain Webmail site. Because attackers use common code procedures, Microsoft overcomes this phenomenon by allowing developers to add a special --X-FRAME-OPTIONS tag — in which IE 8 will use used to filter clickjacking actions. With Firefox, this browser also encourages the use of No Script add-ons to avoid these clickjacking attacks. However, only Chrome and Safari do not yet have protection against this type of malicious attack.

With the ability of IE 8's powerful new features, along with ease of deployment, it can be said that IE 8 will become a predominant browser when released. Organizations currently using Internet Explorer can upgrade to IE 8 when Microsoft releases a new version and migration to the new browser will definitely improve productivity as well as security advantages. that Microsoft is trying to bring to its users.