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Title: IE 8
Post by: Getback on June 08, 2009, 09:16:31 PM: I received an update asking if I wanted to download IE 8. I turned it down. Was this wise?
Title: Re: IE 8
Post by: Tigger29 on June 08, 2009, 09:40:31 PM: You know, I took the plunge.. downloaded it for XP... (and also it came along for the ride when I installed Win7 on a separate hard drive), and I have to say.. I'm kind of impressed.

It looks like security is beefed up a lot, and it seems fast enough with everything... but I haven't really used it much at all.
Title: Re: IE 8
Post by: RipChord929 on June 09, 2009, 05:27:10 AM: Yep, received the same update notice.. Made a system restore point before downloading it, just in case...
But everything works OK, no real difference.. Slightly longer boot time on a cold start is all...
I like it..

RC
Title: Re: IE 8
Post by: DREDIOCK on June 09, 2009, 05:31:59 AM: Installed it recently. LOL looks alot like Firefox now.

BTW the history folder is now a "hidden system folder"
So if your the type that likes to manually check and/or delete history items. and you cant find the history folder.
Your going to have to enable the viewing of system folders
Title: Re: IE 8
Post by: Dragon on June 09, 2009, 08:02:21 AM: I've been using it for months now(downloaded as beta) on all of my comps. Haven't had a problem yet.
Title: Re: IE 8
Post by: BaldEagl on June 09, 2009, 08:41:26 AM: I installed it on all three of my machines a couple of months ago. Generally it's good but there are some recurrant glitches:

The back button sometimes takes a second click to get it to respond.

I get more "Page cannot load" errors than I did in the past but a simple refresh then opens the page as normal.

I found I had to use "compatibility" view on some websites including the AH BBs.

On my old tired laptop it will sometimes launch with my default black desktop background inserted in some of the upper toolbar areas instead of the normal grey background. This makes it impossible to see the menu items but I know where they are so I just click in the right area. The next time I reboot everything is back to normal.

Definately not a refined product but other than that it's been fine.
Title: Re: IE 8
Post by: Ghastly on June 09, 2009, 04:34:05 PM: We've switched many of our work systems to it, as well as upgrading home systems. It has one "feature" that neither Chrome nor Firefox has that we found out by accident - on many sites, the page won't display until embedded advertising finishes loading. When one of the ad sites was having a problem, my users were complaining that sites like MSNBC would hang the browser -which it did on the other two and on IE7, but not IE8.

Other than that, it's remarkably faster than IE7 was. I give it a cautious thumbs up, so far.

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Title: Re: IE 8
Post by: OOZ662 on June 09, 2009, 04:57:31 PM: That exact reason is why I started using AdBlockPlus.
Title: Re: IE 8
Post by: DREDIOCK on June 09, 2009, 07:13:46 PM: Quote from: OOZ662 on June 09, 2009, 04:57:31 PM
That exact reason is why I started using AdBlockPlus.

Beat me to the punch

Ads? what Ads?

:)
Title: Re: IE 8
Post by: bj229r on June 10, 2009, 06:38:48 AM: I let it go on...(don't use IE anyhow, except for vpn stuff from work) but the government web site you navigate to do the FAFSA form for kid's college loans can't deal with it....uninstalled, back to IE7 now
Title: Re: IE 8
Post by: DREDIOCK on June 10, 2009, 06:57:48 PM: Upon further review.
I dont like it.
Title: Re: IE 8
Post by: Fulmar on June 10, 2009, 07:04:27 PM: I have it installed. I use Firefox 95% of the time anyways because some of the sites I use don't support it (crazy I know). I see no real difference between 7 and 8 other than In Private Mode or some cosmetic stuff.
Title: Re: IE 8
Post by: Masherbrum on June 11, 2009, 12:49:31 AM: Quote from: DREDIOCK on June 10, 2009, 06:57:48 PM
Upon further review.
I dont like it.

:rofl

FF3 here with a few add-ons.