I’ve been testing the new IE 8 RC, not really tested it thoroughly yet but it seems to be much better than IE 7 indeed. The speed is amazing for a MS made web browser, very effective work with caching. The rendering is a bit painful sometimes though. A 100% W3C compliant page rendered perfectly or nearly perfectly in Firefox 3 and IE 7, sometimes looks different in IE 8 unless you switch it to the “compatibility mode”.

I am afraid IE 8 is attempting to set an html standard of its own, despite of the promises from Microsoft. Again…

As for the web browser security - I have been using AVG antivirus which comes with a IE & Firefox plugin and so far it’s been very efficient. Most of the time it’s AVG that prevents anything bad to happen, not giving much chance to the web browser to catch the problem itself so it’s hard to say if IE 8 made any progress in that field. Well, hopefully it’s better now.

And just some interesting statistical & marketing data… It seems that a very large part of the Identity Cloaker customer base is using Firefox. Although I have yet to make the stats, there are probably more Firefox users than Internet Explorer users among the Identity Cloaker customer base. I have to admit I did not predict this…

Tomas