Is it me, or does this post-install process seem a bit excessive? I took these at the first launch of IE8, so the other five or six steps in the installer itself aren’t included in these ten… I don’t even remember Netscape 6 having this many pestering install dialogs.
I'm still wondering what to make of this review just yet. There's definitely been progress made, but in true Microsoft fashion, it seems to just be mostly improvements to technologies already available elsewhere. The unofficial Googlebar extension (the same one I was using way back when with Netscape 7.1, mind you) could do a lot of what Accelerators do now; I already have a Private Browsing mode in the Firefox betas I use; Pu7o even had colored tabs in his Firescape browser way back in 2006 via the ColorfulTabs addon that had been out even earlier. And let’s face it: Web Slices seem too much like overglorified RSS feeds to me – at least the spec is in the public domain now. This is catch-up, not ingenuity.
I’ll be interested to see what others think of the browser, more specifically if it ends up winning back some users while shunning even more over to something else. I, for one, am once again thoroughly unimpressed.