In MSIE 4.0, this was available to a certain extent, but only with URLs in the main field, and once your history had reached a certain amount of URLs, it took progressively longer for the AutoComplete utility to kick-in and find the correct one you were typing. In MSIE 5.0, the AutoComplete feature has been extended to include not only URL addresses, but also form fields in Web pages as well. If configured, MSIE 5.0 can also remember passwords on Web pages, such as Hotmail where you frequently had to enter them manually. Speaking of Hotmail, the new Outlook Express client, included with the MSIE 5.0 distribution also includes facilities for setting-up and checking Hotmail accounts right within Outlook Express. In honesty, we haven't put MSIE 5.0 to any benchmark test to compare it with its predecessor, but judging by observation alone, it appears on our system to run much faster and suffer less errors than MSIE 4.0 did.
Pages also appear to be rendering faster than they previously did, including complex table layouts.
For every good, there is an evil. We've so far faced our share of those as well in utilizing MSIE 5.0 on a daily basis. One thing that tends to be more of an irritation than anything else, is a problem which has existed since the introduction of ASP pages, and here, we're not sure if the under-lying problem is due to ASP technology, or to the browser itself, but nonetheless, it still exists. When loading up ASP pages, you more often than not, get rendering errors. This means reloading pages several times to get them to render correctly.