Interesting Game on my Desktop - it is called IE8 [modified]

Mladen Jankovic

Google Chrome has no support for plug-ins and it's spying on me... Hello Lynx :)

hairy_hats

Adblock Plus 1.1 works fine on my FF 3.5.1. :)

I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine

Joe Woodbury · modified on Friday, July 17, 2009 11:59 PM

I use Firefox daily. My wife and kids use IE8 and I use it occasionally. I've found that IE8 is more stable than Firefox. If they fixed a few UI quirks that drive me batty, I'd probably use IE full time.

Baeltazor · modified on Friday, July 17, 2009 11:59 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA YEAH I AGREE! :-D

GDMFSOB · modified on Friday, July 17, 2009 11:59 PM

Well I dont know, I have had it for about 8 weeks now and no problems at all?? i actaully installed it becuase ie 7 kept crashing

DogGoneDog

IF you dig you can find Adblocker for the new firefox. The old firefox had the maker and they have a website. I don't have it here a work but I will repost tonight. The only thing I can find or make work is my Norton Security tool bar. Anyone find that?

Everyone's entitled to my opinion

C Bates

SRWare Iron -- Chrome built w/o Google's data gathering.

Kevin McFarlane

WizardMaster wrote:

IF you dig you can find Adblocker for the new firefox.

I was referring to his comment about moving to Google Chrome, which has no ad blocker. It seemed odd to move from FF 3.5.1 because of broken ad blocker to a browser which has none at all! Anyway, it seems that it's only him who has this problem with FF 3.5.1 and Ad Blocker judging from other posters.

Kevin

Doug Perreault · modified on Friday, July 17, 2009 11:59 PM

I don't recall that I've had IE8 crash since I made two changes. First, I found my CPU was overheating so I cranked the fan up. Temps have gone down from 80C to 45C and things have gone a whole lot better since. Amazing how many crashes we blame on software that could be due to some pet hair in the fan. The other thing is, if you have the UAC turned off in Vista, you might want to check your permissions in your registry. Click the Start Button, type in Regedit and press Enter (once Regedit shows in the search results). In Regedit, right click on HKey_Classes_Root and click on Permissions. If you've not done this recently and you've been running with UAC off, I can almost bet you will find the message "No permissions have been assigned for this object." I have found this issue to be a cause of a huge number of problems. After fixing this (see http://www.brianpeek.com/blog/archive/2007/11/29/weird-vista-registry-issue.aspx[^]) I rarely have any crashes with Vista or IE8. Firefox doesn't crash either, but I prefer to use IE8 because I often need to use the Print Preview feature and some of the print options that IE8 just does better than any other browser out there. I usually open all the articles I find interesting in e-mail newsletters first, then close them as I read them. I can have multiple IE8 instances with dozens of tabs in each and I don't have a problem with crashes.

VEMS · modified on Friday, July 17, 2009 11:59 PM

I uninstalled IE8 on Vista, misbehaving. I will wait for the second patch. Along with that, I disable Flash 10, tooo many crashes using either.

modified on Monday, July 20, 2009 10:58 AM

Trevortni

:omg: Does this really work? There is a reason I've reverted back from both IE7 and IE8, after using either for an hour or so, you see.... (Most of that hour spent trying to find a way to fix the UI).

LloydA111

Yes it does work :-D On XP anyway, I guess it works on Vista and W7

If everything was not true, would it be not true that everything is not true? So by saying everything is not true, you are automatically denying that everything is not true. Im so confused...

Trevortni

Thanks! I'm going to try this on the computer I don't really care about! :-D

LloydA111

Your welcome :) However, since trying it again earlier today, it still loads the IE6 UI, but now when you type a url in, it now opens IE7:confused: Which is strange as it didnt before, although my computer has had updates recently, so I dont know if Microsoft have found out about this and got rid of it :( :thumbsdown:

If everything was not true, would it be not true that everything is not true? So by saying everything is not true, you are automatically denying that everything is not true. Im so confused...

Trevortni

You mean when you type it into the Address Bar? Or when you externally open with an address?

LloydA111

When I type it into the address bar, it now simply opens IE7:thumbsdown:

If everything was not true, would it be not true that everything is not true? So by saying everything is not true, you are automatically denying that everything is not true. Im so confused...

Trevortni

OK, I've tried it out.... When I type something into the Address Bar, it does open a new window for some reason, though at least it's still using the IE6 UI.

Plamen Dragiyski

I had issue with FF3+ for the image renderer. It seems more heavy than IE and FF2.0 ones and site with even one larger background I get not more than 1-2 fps while scrolling. => Hello Firefox 2.0 :)

Homncruse

Trying not to flame, but resistance to change like that is what breaks the web. IE6 needs to be *banned* from the internet. If you MUST insist on IE, at least use the latest version - or at *least* anything newer than IE6. Try doing web design/development with standards-compliant adherence and see how it fares in IE6... Argh.

Trevortni

Banned? Certainly sounds like flaming to me. I'm not the one who insists on IE. At home, I use Firefox. At work, I asked to use Firefox when I started there, and was told no. As for resistance to change, I'm not resistance to change - just being forced into making changes for the worse. Why oh why can't Microsoft let us fix these glaring UI errors? And don't get me started on the "ribbon". Fundamentally, I am opposed to the removal of choice. If you're not, then feel free to write web pages that won't allow me to visit them with IE6. Just don't be surprised when I choose not to visit them.