An independent study has found that IE8 is the browser blocking Malware and Phishing sites.
IE8’s SmartScreen Filter has delivered more than 70 million blocks in the first four months since IE8’s official release, for a cumulative total of 80 million blocks. This data is a strong indication of the value of the protection SmartScreen provides, and of just how widespread socially-engineered malware attacks are on the web today.
IEBlog : Real-World Protection With IE8’s SmartScreen Filter™
I have been reading about IE8 lately and I have to confess that even when I have not tested it yet I’m considering to drop Firefox and go back to IE8. The problem that I’m having with Firefox is that due to the amount of extensions I have running on Firefox, it’s slow and one of the reasons why I switched from IE to Firefox was performance. Now IE8 is about to be released and I have been reading news about new functionalities like this Web Slices from Live Search that seems to me really good.
So what do you think guys, should I go back to IE8 or stay with my old friend Firefox?
