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IE8
Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:22 pm
by Have Brush Will Travel
Just gave it a try..comp completly went inti one..noe links opens and all I got was IE error boxes..waste of time.
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:12 am
by old_codger
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:19 am
by Hoovie
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
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:42 am
by thescruff
Why anyone would want to use IE is outside of my white cells.
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:44 am
by Hoovie
There are certain things that only work on MS IE, sadly.
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:47 am
by thescruff
Not had that problem
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:52 am
by Hoovie
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!
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:10 pm
by ultimatehandyman
Wait till Google chrome comes out.
I wonder if it will feed web browsing info directly to Google?
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:37 pm
by Hoovie
apparently it is available to download now and is very fast
I am wary about it personally - google are turining into the new microsoft
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:06 pm
by Have Brush Will Travel
Firefox takes a lot of licking IMO
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:23 pm
by old_codger
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
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:33 pm
by thescruff
Not happy with firefox at the moment, because they installed an update that's not compatible with AVGfree