Even  with IE7 caching of images didn’t seem to happen. I felt in IE8 things would be better but it is not so. For every request images gets downloaded again and again. This is most irritating for any user. Rest other broswers like Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Opera all seem to cache the common images and it gives a wonderful user experience. I don’t know why IE7 and IE8 doesn’t seem to have this feature. If there is a workaround I don’t know it now!!!

Without this very important feature I see that IE is further going loose the market.

2. Fix for the last saved path bug.

IE8 doesn’t remember last saved path. I believe this bug was there in beta version but it still persist even after release. I don’t know what is going on!!!

Steps to replicate this bug

1. Open new IE window and do a google image search for any keyword like “flower images”

2. Copy the url in the current tab.

3. Create  new tab and paste the URL and hit Enter. Follow Step3 for 4-5 cycles.

4. Now try to save an image to desktop from each tab one by one. Not all the tabs seems to remember the last saved path!!!

I haven’t found any solution for this bug. Will update in this post once there is one. So kindly subscribe to the rss feeds from raptor.in.

Accelerators – If there are address found in a website now it is easy to Map to Live Maps with the click of blue arrow button.

InPrivate Browsing – Like Google Chrome’s incognito window with IE8 you can browse web without any traces in history

Web Slices – Like iGoogle you can customize the webpage and have everything at one place. On a webpge if an item incorporates Web Slice functionality, the Web Slice icon will appear.

Search suggestions – Like google’s toolbar. This search suggestion has more details in it.

SmartScreen Filter – An security feature to protect you against deceptive and malicious websites.

To download you need to Select your country and then your OS version. It is that Simple.

Here is a link to Download IE8