IE8 - Worth The Switch?

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Lady Deadra

Greetings All!

I've stuck with IE6 after installing 7 a few times. Same problems - hanging
& crashes.

Tempted to try 8 even though its still beta - a few bugs are expected.

What have your experiences been? Good? Bad? Indifferent?

TIA
 
You're a little behind times. IE8 is out of beta; it went gold last week.

I mostly liked IE7. Most of the trouble I had with it involved advertising
on web pages. Sometimes it would hang the browser. (That was worse inside a
corporate firewall.) I'm not sure whether IE8 is more forgiving in that
regard, but it seems to be faster overall.
 
Greetings All!

I've stuck with IE6 after installing 7 a few times. Same problems - hanging
& crashes.

Tempted to try 8 even though its still beta - a few bugs are expected.

What have your experiences been? Good? Bad? Indifferent?

TIA
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It's time to be rid of IE6. There are now simple scripts out there
for webmasters to use that will remind you that it is outdated when
you visit their site.

It's needs are increasingly being ignored when sites are being
created.
 
If you can't run IE7 without "hanging & crashes," I would NOT recommend
installing IE8!

References:

IE8 home page
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx

What’s New in Internet Explorer 8:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.ie8.aspx

Release Notes for IE8 Final
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/dd441788.aspx

IE8 System Requirements
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/support/system-requirements.aspx

IE8 FAQ
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/support/faq.aspx

IE8 Tour
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/tour/default.aspx

IE8 Videos
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/videos.aspx (Silverlight)
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ie8videos&view=videos
• Overview:
• Security Features:
• Easier Browsing:
• Compatibility View:
• History of the Internet:

IE8 Features: Accelerators; Performance; Favorites & History Management;
Instant Search; Web Slices; Automatic Crash Recovery; InPrivate Browsing;
Security; and more
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/features/overview.aspx?tabid=1&catid=1

IE8: Features & Benchmarks (ZDNet)
http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/productivity/0,1000001108,39630019,00.htm
• Screenshot Tutorial:
http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/productivity/0,1000001108,39630014,00.htm

About IE7 (and higher) Installation and Anti-Malware Applications
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/10/11/IE7-Installation-and-Anti_2D00_Malware-Applications.aspx

About IE7 (and higher) and Windows XP Service Pack 3
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/05/05/ie-and-xpsp3.aspx
 
I would recommend against installing IE8. It's a monstrously heavy
browser with an enormous footprint on your system's resources.

I tested it against the latest Firefox and Safari, using
http://celtickane.com/webdesign/jsspeedarchive.php among others, and
Firefox still wins from all the others. Especially when using:
* AdBlockPlus http://adblockplus.org/en/installation
* ConfigMania https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4420
* Stylish https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108
* TrackMeNot http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/TrackMeNot/

If only IE8 had addons like that.. but it's still slower on my Quad
Core hardware in XP x64.
 
I would recommend against installing IE8. It's a monstrously heavy
browser with an enormous footprint on your system's resources.
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Where do you get that from?
I tested it against the latest Firefox and Safari, using
http://celtickane.com/webdesign/jsspeedarchive.php among others, and
Firefox still wins from all the others. Especially when using:
* AdBlockPlus http://adblockplus.org/en/installation
* ConfigMania https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4420
* Stylish https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108
* TrackMeNot http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/TrackMeNot/

If only IE8 had addons like that.. but it's still slower on my Quad
Core hardware in XP x64.
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I think IE8 is an improvement over 6 or 7. As to wether it's better than
Firefox that will depend on what YOU want out of a browser. What's best for
you may be useless to me and vice versa.
 
I can't see in my OE client if it was you who "recommend against installing
IE8" - but, if it was, I completely agree with you...

I had it installed on a previous XP installation on this machine, and, at
best, could describe it as "clunky". I have not made the same mistake this
time round, and have stuck with IE6 and installed Google Chrome. I am
thinking of dumping Chrome in favour of something else, as it too is
beginning to feel unwieldy, with it's constantly "updating" sometimes
twice-a-week, seems to be getting larger and larger too!

May try Firefox next....

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
 
Tim said:
I can't see in my OE client if it was you who "recommend against
installing IE8" - but, if it was, I completely agree with you...

I had it installed on a previous XP installation on this machine, and,
at best, could describe it as "clunky". I have not made the same
mistake this time round, and have stuck with IE6 and installed Google
Chrome. I am thinking of dumping Chrome in favour of something else, as
it too is beginning to feel unwieldy, with it's constantly "updating"
sometimes twice-a-week, seems to be getting larger and larger too!

May try Firefox next....
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Firefox has almost weekly new browsers.
Not really updates, more like totally new browsers.
I am sticking with SeaMonkey 1119.
 
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