Is IE7 and IE8 more stable than IE6?

[choro]

Personally I hate IE6, and always have. Normally I use Firefox, but
FF is one of the slowest programs to load, so for a quick view of a
website, I tend to use IE. This is often a mistake. IE6 has been the
worst of the worst. I installed it on my old Win98 computer and soon
found out my entire OS was ****ed up. I finally restored my backup of
Win98 which had IE5.5 and continued to use IE5.5 for years. In fact I
still use it on that older computer when I use the computer.

Then I installed Windows2000 on my laptop, and I do not recall if it
came with IE6 or I installed it myself. (I think it was included).
Fortunately it did not cause the OS to **** up, but IE6 constantly
****s up. It crashes, it loses track of whether the internet is
connected, it gives errors that no one can understand, and it WILL
lock up even Win2000 if I load more than 4 to 6 pages. On top of that,
IE6 had a tendency to begin loading a webpage, and hours later it's
still trying to load that same page, while FF can load the same page
in a minute or less.

I no longer use IE at all on the laptop, in fact I set it so it can
not be loaded at all. The laptop is too old to install XP, so I'm
stuck with IE6. I just learned to be patient and wait forever for FF
to load.

My newest computer came with XPsp3 and IE8. I have not yet hooked that
computer to the internet, but I'm hesitant to even try IE. If IE7 and
IE8 are takeoff's from IE6, I dread what will happen.

There was a time I thought the problem was because Win98 could not
handle IE6, but when I installed Win2000, I found it was IE6, not the
OS. Then runnng it on an entirely different computer confirmed it was
not the hardware either.

I rate IE6 as the worst piece of software ever created by MS. I find
it hard to believe that people tolerated it as long as they did, but
that may account for the popularity of Firefox, Opera, and other
browsers during the time IE6 was the latest and only newer version of
IE. It seems that was the time in computer history when everyone was
experiementing with other OSs. I think I know why.....

IE 5 and IE5.5 were much more stable, and I still find them much
better. If IE8 is unstable, I may just install IE5.5 on my XP
computer, if it will run under XP ????


Anyone have experience with IE7 or IE8?

Thanks

I have IE8 installed on my XP/SP3 desktop and have no problems with it. Mind
you I did have lots and lots of problems when I first installed it. It seems
you should NOT install IE8 with your AV etc on. On re-installing it I made
sure I exited my Internet Security first and everything went on OK. No
problems.

However, may be you should try Google Chrome which I normally use and am
extremely happy with. Firefox is OK but Chrome is better. Safari? I don't
know really. I have installed it but for some reason I give it the cold
shoulder treatment.

As far as I am concerned you can't beat Google Chrome though it seems you DO
need IE to download MS updates etc. But to be honest I can't really complain
about IE8 with the proviso that you disable your Internet Security (AV etc)
while installing it.

 

[mycomputer3]

Personally I hate IE6, and always have. Normally I use Firefox, but
FF is one of the slowest programs to load, so for a quick view of a
website, I tend to use IE. This is often a mistake. IE6 has been the
worst of the worst. I installed it on my old Win98 computer and soon
found out my entire OS was ****ed up. I finally restored my backup of
Win98 which had IE5.5 and continued to use IE5.5 for years. In fact I
still use it on that older computer when I use the computer.

Then I installed Windows2000 on my laptop, and I do not recall if it
came with IE6 or I installed it myself. (I think it was included).
Fortunately it did not cause the OS to **** up, but IE6 constantly
****s up. It crashes, it loses track of whether the internet is
connected, it gives errors that no one can understand, and it WILL
lock up even Win2000 if I load more than 4 to 6 pages. On top of that,
IE6 had a tendency to begin loading a webpage, and hours later it's
still trying to load that same page, while FF can load the same page
in a minute or less.

I no longer use IE at all on the laptop, in fact I set it so it can
not be loaded at all. The laptop is too old to install XP, so I'm
stuck with IE6. I just learned to be patient and wait forever for FF
to load.

My newest computer came with XPsp3 and IE8. I have not yet hooked that
computer to the internet, but I'm hesitant to even try IE. If IE7 and
IE8 are takeoff's from IE6, I dread what will happen.

There was a time I thought the problem was because Win98 could not
handle IE6, but when I installed Win2000, I found it was IE6, not the
OS. Then runnng it on an entirely different computer confirmed it was
not the hardware either.

I rate IE6 as the worst piece of software ever created by MS. I find
it hard to believe that people tolerated it as long as they did, but
that may account for the popularity of Firefox, Opera, and other
browsers during the time IE6 was the latest and only newer version of
IE. It seems that was the time in computer history when everyone was
experiementing with other OSs. I think I know why.....

IE 5 and IE5.5 were much more stable, and I still find them much
better. If IE8 is unstable, I may just install IE5.5 on my XP
computer, if it will run under XP ????


Anyone have experience with IE7 or IE8?

Thanks

 

[Nil]

I rate IE6 as the worst piece of software ever created by MS. I
find it hard to believe that people tolerated it as long as they
did, but that may account for the popularity of Firefox, Opera,
and other browsers

Although I usually use Firefox, I also used IE6 for years on both
Windows 2000 and now on XP. I never had the problems you describe. It
worked just fine for me.

I skipped IE7 entirely, but I finally installed IE8 a couple of months
ago. It has also work without any problems of any kind.

It sounds to me like you have more system problems than just your
internet browser.