After the release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 in August earlier, Microsoft is pleased to release its latest IE8 Beta 2. Unlike the earlier IE8 Beta 2 which only supports English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), and German languages, this release supports an additional 21 languages. These additional languages include Arabic, Czech, Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Greek, Korean, Russian, Hebrew, Norwegian, Spanish, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Swedish and Turkish.

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Google Chrome offers some tips on keyboard shortcut for easy navigation and operation. The following keyboard hotkeys or accelerators are the lists of common and useful shortcuts which built into Google Chrome browser.

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Google Suggest is a useful default feature which can predict what users type in the search box and offer relevant suggestions in real time. For instance, if you type “home” in the search box, Google Suggest will immediately offer you a list of suggestions started with home, e.g. “homebase”, “home office”, “home for sale”, “home insurance”, “home goods” ,etc. You could just click on the relevant search word/phase if it appears in the list to get the search results. This default feature surely will enhance your internet experience. Or will it? Do you find the second guessing a nuisance instead? If you don’t feel Google Suggest is helpful but irritating, just switch it off.

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Mozilla developer centre released its Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 today. Codenamed as Shiretoko Alpha 2, developers or testers who would like to give it a try can download it. This Alpha 2 release it built on the pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.1 platform and it introduces a few interesting new features such as:

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Despite the fuss and ballyhoo over Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3 and the newly released Google Chrome, some people might choose to buck the trend by opting for less distinguished brands in the choice of browsers. If you don’t like to jump on the branded bandwagon, the Avant Browser is a viable alternative.

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Google Chrome, with open source name of Chromium, is the latest foray by Google into the ‘not-so-crowded’ (considering billions of Internet surfers with just couple of popular browsers), but competitive web browser market. The most popular web browsers currently available include Internet Explorer from Microsoft, Firefox from Mozilla and Safari from Apple.

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While Internet Explorer and Firefox battle it out, Google has come from behind to launch its open source browser, Google Chrome. Google Chrome beta version will be released to the public in 100 countries today. In conjunction with this release of Google’s browser, details about Chrome can also be found in a 38-page online comic book in blogosphere. Users who intend to read the comic can get it here.

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After the release of Windows Internet Explorer Beta 1 (IE 8 Beta 1) which targeted web designers and developers on March 25, 2008, Microsoft now moves a step further to the release of its IE8 final version by releasing its IE 8 Beta 2. Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is available for download for various Windows OS such as Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Vista 32 bit edition, Windows Vista 64 bit edition, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. Besides that, this new version also supports Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), and German languages.

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