IE8 Experiences
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I got round to installing the release version of IE8 on Friday, and have tried using it as my main browser for a couple of days. However, while I appreciate the improved developer tools, improved conformance, and other such goodies, I'm sad to report that it seems sadly broken. I frequently get "Connection problems", that actually take me to the "Diagnose Network Problems" wizard - even though I've never had such issues with IE7, Firefox, Chrome or Safari. The browser has, on 5 or 6 occasions, become totally unresponsive requiring task manager intervention to kill. I'm rather sad, as I thought Microsoft may finally be getting their browser act together. Oddly, earlier testing with a beta raised none of these issues. (Currently, I've reverted to using Chrome as my main casual browser - I really like the quick startup and uncluttered interface, Firefox for development tasks (Firebug remains the most useful developer-oriented plug-in I've seen), and all the others delegated to testing sites. Anyone having a better time of it with IE8?
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I got round to installing the release version of IE8 on Friday, and have tried using it as my main browser for a couple of days. However, while I appreciate the improved developer tools, improved conformance, and other such goodies, I'm sad to report that it seems sadly broken. I frequently get "Connection problems", that actually take me to the "Diagnose Network Problems" wizard - even though I've never had such issues with IE7, Firefox, Chrome or Safari. The browser has, on 5 or 6 occasions, become totally unresponsive requiring task manager intervention to kill. I'm rather sad, as I thought Microsoft may finally be getting their browser act together. Oddly, earlier testing with a beta raised none of these issues. (Currently, I've reverted to using Chrome as my main casual browser - I really like the quick startup and uncluttered interface, Firefox for development tasks (Firebug remains the most useful developer-oriented plug-in I've seen), and all the others delegated to testing sites. Anyone having a better time of it with IE8?
Good grief, how old are you? Let's go over it again: it take at least three tries for Microsoft to get anything right. Given the similarities, I'd say it's IE7, IE8 and then either IE8 SP1 or IE9. (The Vista cycle means that Windows 7 SP1 is going to be an awesome OS.)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Good grief, how old are you? Let's go over it again: it take at least three tries for Microsoft to get anything right. Given the similarities, I'd say it's IE7, IE8 and then either IE8 SP1 or IE9. (The Vista cycle means that Windows 7 SP1 is going to be an awesome OS.)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
True, but given the good feedback I'd heard from Windows 7 beta-testers, I was beginning to hope that Microsoft may have learned some lessons re. releasing software this flaky. As a developer, generally I find myself having to live with these beasts, at least to some degree - but I agree, with a bit of luck they'll sort the issues out somewhere in the service pack cycle.
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I got round to installing the release version of IE8 on Friday, and have tried using it as my main browser for a couple of days. However, while I appreciate the improved developer tools, improved conformance, and other such goodies, I'm sad to report that it seems sadly broken. I frequently get "Connection problems", that actually take me to the "Diagnose Network Problems" wizard - even though I've never had such issues with IE7, Firefox, Chrome or Safari. The browser has, on 5 or 6 occasions, become totally unresponsive requiring task manager intervention to kill. I'm rather sad, as I thought Microsoft may finally be getting their browser act together. Oddly, earlier testing with a beta raised none of these issues. (Currently, I've reverted to using Chrome as my main casual browser - I really like the quick startup and uncluttered interface, Firefox for development tasks (Firebug remains the most useful developer-oriented plug-in I've seen), and all the others delegated to testing sites. Anyone having a better time of it with IE8?
I went to a site the other day (Great Urban Race) which somehow activated Adobe Acrobat in the background which allocated close to 500Mb - my poor system slowed to a near dead stop. I assumed that the Adobe Toolbar was responsible and disabled it. Never had to do that before either...
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I got round to installing the release version of IE8 on Friday, and have tried using it as my main browser for a couple of days. However, while I appreciate the improved developer tools, improved conformance, and other such goodies, I'm sad to report that it seems sadly broken. I frequently get "Connection problems", that actually take me to the "Diagnose Network Problems" wizard - even though I've never had such issues with IE7, Firefox, Chrome or Safari. The browser has, on 5 or 6 occasions, become totally unresponsive requiring task manager intervention to kill. I'm rather sad, as I thought Microsoft may finally be getting their browser act together. Oddly, earlier testing with a beta raised none of these issues. (Currently, I've reverted to using Chrome as my main casual browser - I really like the quick startup and uncluttered interface, Firefox for development tasks (Firebug remains the most useful developer-oriented plug-in I've seen), and all the others delegated to testing sites. Anyone having a better time of it with IE8?
Been working fine here, haven't seen the connection issue you're talking about. Still a big Chrome fan myself, though.
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I got round to installing the release version of IE8 on Friday, and have tried using it as my main browser for a couple of days. However, while I appreciate the improved developer tools, improved conformance, and other such goodies, I'm sad to report that it seems sadly broken. I frequently get "Connection problems", that actually take me to the "Diagnose Network Problems" wizard - even though I've never had such issues with IE7, Firefox, Chrome or Safari. The browser has, on 5 or 6 occasions, become totally unresponsive requiring task manager intervention to kill. I'm rather sad, as I thought Microsoft may finally be getting their browser act together. Oddly, earlier testing with a beta raised none of these issues. (Currently, I've reverted to using Chrome as my main casual browser - I really like the quick startup and uncluttered interface, Firefox for development tasks (Firebug remains the most useful developer-oriented plug-in I've seen), and all the others delegated to testing sites. Anyone having a better time of it with IE8?
Rob Grainger wrote:
Anyone having a better time of it with IE8?
Hi Rob, Using IE8 release without problems here. The one anti-feature I notice is that when I save a site as a Favorite, the folder in the Favorites I save it into does not remain the currently selected site across tab pages, or within the same tab. Since it adds a new folder down at the bottom (of my very long list of Favorites folders), this means I have to scrolll way down to store things repeatedly to the same Favorites folder. But the Favorites management facility in IE has always been a UI joke to me. best, Bill
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I got round to installing the release version of IE8 on Friday, and have tried using it as my main browser for a couple of days. However, while I appreciate the improved developer tools, improved conformance, and other such goodies, I'm sad to report that it seems sadly broken. I frequently get "Connection problems", that actually take me to the "Diagnose Network Problems" wizard - even though I've never had such issues with IE7, Firefox, Chrome or Safari. The browser has, on 5 or 6 occasions, become totally unresponsive requiring task manager intervention to kill. I'm rather sad, as I thought Microsoft may finally be getting their browser act together. Oddly, earlier testing with a beta raised none of these issues. (Currently, I've reverted to using Chrome as my main casual browser - I really like the quick startup and uncluttered interface, Firefox for development tasks (Firebug remains the most useful developer-oriented plug-in I've seen), and all the others delegated to testing sites. Anyone having a better time of it with IE8?
And people are actually trying to get rid of IE6? If microsoft wants to do that, they are going to have to at least supply a decent replacement browser. I never liked IE7. I always had trouble with it and VS working together properly. In my opion, the only visible improvement between IE6 and IE7 is that they actually fixed the PNG transparency problem. I suspected that IE8 wouldn't be any better. That's why I haven't downloaded it.
Come on! Get down with the sickness!! -- Disturbed
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I got round to installing the release version of IE8 on Friday, and have tried using it as my main browser for a couple of days. However, while I appreciate the improved developer tools, improved conformance, and other such goodies, I'm sad to report that it seems sadly broken. I frequently get "Connection problems", that actually take me to the "Diagnose Network Problems" wizard - even though I've never had such issues with IE7, Firefox, Chrome or Safari. The browser has, on 5 or 6 occasions, become totally unresponsive requiring task manager intervention to kill. I'm rather sad, as I thought Microsoft may finally be getting their browser act together. Oddly, earlier testing with a beta raised none of these issues. (Currently, I've reverted to using Chrome as my main casual browser - I really like the quick startup and uncluttered interface, Firefox for development tasks (Firebug remains the most useful developer-oriented plug-in I've seen), and all the others delegated to testing sites. Anyone having a better time of it with IE8?