IE8 Update for Windows 7 Released

Microsoft has released a ‘compatibility and reliability’ update for Internet Explorer 8, on the Windows 7. This software update is a prerequisite for Windows Internet Explorer 8. This update helps improve compatibility and reliability when you install and use IE8. These updates are the one which are available in IE8 RC released few days back for Vista and XP.

This updates resolves the following issues:

• When Internet Explorer 8 is installed with Adobe Flash Player 10, Internet Explorer may become unresponsive.
• You experience a Print dialog box that is unusable when you try to print an Adobe PDF document.
• After a crash, Internet Explorer 8 becomes unresponsive, and you must restart the computer to resolve the problem.
• Internet Explorer 8 may crash when you visit some Web sites.
• Internet Explorer 8 may crash when you resize the browser window.
• Internet Explorer 8 does not seem to remember information that was stored in cookies on the computer.
• Popular third-party extensions cause crashes in Internet Explorer 8.
• Previously blocked third-party extensions are no longer blocked after you upgrade to Internet Explorer 8.

You can read more about this update at Microsoft support and help center. You can get the update either through Windows update or from here.

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