IE8

Have Brush Will Travel · Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:22 pm

Just gave it a try..comp completly went inti one..noe links opens and all I got was IE error boxes..waste of time.

old_codger · Post by **old_codger** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:12 am

Hmmm... I wonder why?

http://exo-blog. blogspot. com/2008/09/internet-explorer-8-over-2x-fatter-than.html

:)

PS: Take the spaces out of the link, obviously.

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:19 am

I tried IE8.

It had some nice features actually which impressed me, but it regulary made my PC goto to 100% CPU until I had to kill the process and on one particular forum (running IP Board BBS s/w ?) it messed up the reply box constantly.

I have now uninstalled it, but will give it another go in a while when they have ironed up some issues

word of warning - apparently, if you install IE8 beta on a system running Windows XP SP3 you CANNOT uninstall it - so don't even go there if you have XP SP3

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:42 am

Why anyone would want to use IE is outside of my white cells.

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:44 am

There are certain things that only work on MS IE, sadly.

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:47 am

Not had that problem

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:52 am

there are a few applications that use web Browsers as a Front-End Presentation application and some of them link into the IE internals to work

I tried alternatives, but no other worked - PITA really!

Post by **ultimatehandyman** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:10 pm

Wait till Google chrome comes out.

I wonder if it will feed web browsing info directly to Google?

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:37 pm

apparently it is available to download now and is very fast

I am wary about it personally - google are turining into the new microsoft

Have Brush Will Travel · Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:06 pm

Firefox takes a lot of licking IMO

old_codger · Post by **old_codger** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:23 pm

Have Brush Will Travel wrote:Firefox takes a lot of licking IMO

Yeah, but I had a problem with firefox under opensuse linux 11.0, (although I've no reason to believe it would have been any better under the windoze version), where a set of date fields which should have had 3 components, (DD/MM/YYYY), only had one. Either that or they were all on top of each other.

Either way it was impossible to enter the data and I had to fire up Opera instead. That worked fine.

Go figure, as the yanks say.

Andy

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:33 pm

Not happy with firefox at the moment, because they installed an update that's not compatible with AVGfree