OMG. Internet Explorer 8 has InPrivate Browsing Feature!
June 26th, 2009 Leave a comment Visited 37 times, 2 so far today
OMG. Internet Explorer 8 has InPrivate Browsing Feature!
Microsoft has been running an awful marketing campaign to promote their recently launched Internet Explorer 8 web browser.
Here is one of the new ads which feature Dean Cain highlighting the InPrivate browsing feature of IE8.
The advertisement showcases a wife who ends up checking the browser history of her husband which is full of $#$#@$^%$^$% (beep beep) websites.
It is a known fact that InPrivate browsing is not a revolutionary feature at all. It has been available in Google Chrome since the very first version. Apple Safari has also has it since ages now.
Mozilla Firefox would get it in version 3.5. Opera still seems to have no plans for it.
The quality of the ad and the message delivered… not very impressive.
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June 26th, 2009 at 05:55 pm
The feature shipped in IE before it shipped in Chrome (see wikipedia quotes below). Same for tab isolation. The one in Safari is simply confusing(turn it on… which tabs does it apply to? how can I tell?).
“Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google and based on the WebKit layout engine and application framework. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008″ – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_chrome
“On August 27, 2008, Microsoft made IE8 Beta 2 generally available.[11] PC World noted various Beta 2 features such as InPrivate mode, tab isolation and color coding” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_explorer_8