IE Updates

Popup Blocker is the most obvious addition. This newest release shows you that it blocked a popup in 2 different ways. The first way is directly under the address bar. You can disable this rather annoying notification by right clicking on it and selecting "turn off information bar for blocked popups" The second way is what they've had in place since the early days of SP2. A nice little icon on the bottom of your screen. I right clicked on it so you see what options you have. The first bar also has these when you right click on it.

Next is what it looks like when you click tools --> popupblocker --> settings

In the latest build Microsoft made this popup blocker a bit more complex than just simply on or off. There's now three levels of blocking. The default is medium.

The next thing I did was downloaded winamp where I was given a new screen that looked like this. (changed since RC1)

IE's Addon manager

To the right it even tells you how many times the addon has been usedand how many times IE stopped it from being used. It's nice to know what plugins were installed for IE. Before any addons are installed for IE you will be prompted to approve it. This should prevent alot of spyware applications that are automatically installed on systems from questionable sites. It's about time Microsoft fixes this problem that has caused so many service calls.

There's also supposed to be something called crash detection, but I haven't been able to trigger it so I'm not exactly sure what it'll do.