IE8 Beta Testers
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Has anyone applied since the word was spead last week that they were looking for new beta testers? Has anyone else been contacted? I sent my email last week and havent heard anything yet.
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Has anyone applied since the word was spead last week that they were looking for new beta testers? Has anyone else been contacted? I sent my email last week and havent heard anything yet.
Huh?
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Huh?
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
I saw on one of the code project daily emails last week that MS were looking for beta testers for Internet Explorer 8. The article linked to the IE8 blog where it was requested that new applicants send an email to apply to be a beta tester. I had sent one last week but have had no response. I wrote this to see if anyone else had tried and heard anything.
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I saw on one of the code project daily emails last week that MS were looking for beta testers for Internet Explorer 8. The article linked to the IE8 blog where it was requested that new applicants send an email to apply to be a beta tester. I had sent one last week but have had no response. I wrote this to see if anyone else had tried and heard anything.
I'm weary of using "STABLE" MS software, let alone MS software in the Beta stage ;P Regards, --Perspx
"The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia
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I saw on one of the code project daily emails last week that MS were looking for beta testers for Internet Explorer 8. The article linked to the IE8 blog where it was requested that new applicants send an email to apply to be a beta tester. I had sent one last week but have had no response. I wrote this to see if anyone else had tried and heard anything.
Okay. I didn't see that and was wondering.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Has anyone applied since the word was spead last week that they were looking for new beta testers? Has anyone else been contacted? I sent my email last week and havent heard anything yet.
AFAIK, you can just download the beta. Don't think you need to register... I'll save you the trouble though: It's faster than IE7. It's slower than just about every other browser, and some of the faster glaciers. Tabs are hosted in separate processes, except when they aren't. Crashes recover cleanly, except when they don't. Opening new tabs still involves waiting around watching the UI fight with itself for a while before letting you actually use the new tab. There's some new thing - WebSlices - that seems suspiciously similar to some of the "web desktop" stuff from the '90s, except less flexible. And GMail is broken.
Citizen 20.1.01
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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AFAIK, you can just download the beta. Don't think you need to register... I'll save you the trouble though: It's faster than IE7. It's slower than just about every other browser, and some of the faster glaciers. Tabs are hosted in separate processes, except when they aren't. Crashes recover cleanly, except when they don't. Opening new tabs still involves waiting around watching the UI fight with itself for a while before letting you actually use the new tab. There's some new thing - WebSlices - that seems suspiciously similar to some of the "web desktop" stuff from the '90s, except less flexible. And GMail is broken.
Citizen 20.1.01
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
Thats odd, the slowness is how i would describe my experience with firefox (pre v3, havent got 3 yet) over IE7. IE7 opens up almost instantly and so do most pages, and tabs. However firfox seems to take a few seconds more to load and each new tab takes a about a second or two more to load. perhaps this is just me. Im using windows vista x64. perhaps IE7 is just optimised more for that, where it has the opposite reaction on Firefox. I will get v3 soon to see what the difference is.
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AFAIK, you can just download the beta. Don't think you need to register... I'll save you the trouble though: It's faster than IE7. It's slower than just about every other browser, and some of the faster glaciers. Tabs are hosted in separate processes, except when they aren't. Crashes recover cleanly, except when they don't. Opening new tabs still involves waiting around watching the UI fight with itself for a while before letting you actually use the new tab. There's some new thing - WebSlices - that seems suspiciously similar to some of the "web desktop" stuff from the '90s, except less flexible. And GMail is broken.
Citizen 20.1.01
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
Damn, are they ever going to fix that UI tab slowness issue? It's a small thing but it drives me up the wall - totally unnecessary. Glad they're moving towards seperate processes though (even if still flawed). When you say "Crashes recover cleanly", does this mean that it restarts and reopens the same page? A lot of the crashes I've seen (in earlier versions) have been reproducible most/all of the time on a given page, so I expect to be seeing a lot of infinite loops while it repeatedly finds it's unable to deal with some pages...
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Damn, are they ever going to fix that UI tab slowness issue? It's a small thing but it drives me up the wall - totally unnecessary. Glad they're moving towards seperate processes though (even if still flawed). When you say "Crashes recover cleanly", does this mean that it restarts and reopens the same page? A lot of the crashes I've seen (in earlier versions) have been reproducible most/all of the time on a given page, so I expect to be seeing a lot of infinite loops while it repeatedly finds it's unable to deal with some pages...
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stevio wrote:
I expect to be seeing a lot of infinite loops while it repeatedly finds it's unable to deal with some pages...
Yes, that can be a problem. :sigh:
Citizen 20.1.01
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'