BTW, to redirect and get back on topic. I have been playing with IE 8 for a day and the accelerator function, works pretty well. I notice a faster load time with IE 8 v. Firefox, Chrome, Opera or Safari. Pages instantly appear, often without any missing content which needs to be loaded. I understand that this is a preliminary observation, so this may change as I get to know IE 8 more. But so far, it is looking like it is a pretty decent browser. Frankly, again, I'm surprised that something with the Microsoft name is actually working and working well at the RC1 level.
BTW, for reference, I am connected to the internet via ADSL through AT&T in Northern California. I am about 15 miles from the central office and about a block away from the closest B box with a fiber hut. I am using their "Elite" service which gives me a down throughput of about a maximum of 5mbps, which averages about 5.5 which is not that bad. I share this connection with an Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, Sony On-Location host device, 5 PC's, 1 Windows 2003 Server, SAN and 1 laptop and a Mac. At the time I was browsing during my observation, I was running Firefox 3.07 with 2 tabbed URL's and 3 downloads in Vuze (public domain torrents of course!
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