Dalo Harkin Posted August 28, 2008 Posted August 28, 2008 Although a large population of users have already migrated away from Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows' built-in browser still dominates at large, for better or for worse. Its latest iteration, IE7 is still a very decent browser although with more recent releases of Firefox, Opera and Safari, Microsoft has once again fell behind in terms of features, customization and perhaps most importantly, performance. The software giant has been touting all year long the progress they have been making with Internet Explorer 8, however with their latest beta 1 release they demonstrated they were far from reaching the stability and usability point where you can actually use the browser as your primary navigation tool. Even worse, it tended to break many many sites. Sourced from TechSpot - PC Technology News and Analysis Quote Intel Q6600 @ 4Ghz (Watercooled)Asus P5K premium black pearl4GB OCZ Reaper 8500260GTX Join Free PC Help - Register here Donations are welcome - here PC Build We are all members helping other members.Please return here where you may be able to help someone else.After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs.
AdvancedSetup Posted August 29, 2008 Posted August 29, 2008 Before the link gets buried on the TechSpot site. Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Quote Need help with your computer problems? Then why not join Free PC Help. Register hereIf Free PC Help has helped you then please consider a donation. Click here Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware | Malwarebytes' Products | SUPERAntispyware | HijackThis | Spybot Search & Destroy | hpHosts | SpywareBlaster | WinPatrol | SiteHound | FireFox | NoScript | Adblock Plus | Sandboxie | Acronis True Image | ThreatFire | ESET Online Scanner | Kaspersky Online Scanner | Panda Online Scanner | Trend Online Scanner | Avira AntiVir Personal | Avast Free AV | CCleaner | ATF-Cleaner | Online Armor Firewall | Outpost Firewall Free | DirectX | Office Compatibility Pack | Office 2003 (SP3) | SubInACL | Windows Defender | Windows Installer 3.1 | IE7 XP | XP SP3 for IT | Sysinternals | Virtual PC 2007 | Returnil We are all members helping other members.Please return here where you may be able to help someone else.After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs.
rowal5555 Posted August 29, 2008 Posted August 29, 2008 I read that and thought I would maybe have something nice to say about IE as the features in 8 looked good. Downloaded and installed it last night but it simply did not work. Wouldn't open an email and locked up solid doing nothing. Very glad that I had made a Restore point. This will have to wait for the final release. Quote HP Pavilion a1555a, 3GHz Dual Core, 2GB DDR2, Win7 Ultimate.Acer Aspire 5720Z, 1.6GHz Dual Core, 2GB, Vista Home Premium.HP Pavilion DV6 1216AX, 2.3GHz Dual Core. Vista/Win7.Proud supporter of FOLDING@HOME - finding a cure.
RandyL Posted August 29, 2008 Posted August 29, 2008 Yes there are plenty of bugs yet. Good idea to set a Restore point first. Be careful of beta versions of anything. Quote We are all members helping other members. Please return here where you may be able to help someone else. After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs.Get help with computer problems. Join Free PC Help here Donations are welcome. Read Here
rowal5555 Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 Actually, things turned out to be a lot worse than I realised as my IE7 had become corrupted and I had no IE at all so could not update and I hadn't realised it. Spent quite a lot of time on the phone with offshore MS help but they weren't aware of the fix, so in case anyone else has a problem with IE7, you must uninstall SP3 before you can uninstall IE7 and reinstall. Cheers Quote HP Pavilion a1555a, 3GHz Dual Core, 2GB DDR2, Win7 Ultimate.Acer Aspire 5720Z, 1.6GHz Dual Core, 2GB, Vista Home Premium.HP Pavilion DV6 1216AX, 2.3GHz Dual Core. Vista/Win7.Proud supporter of FOLDING@HOME - finding a cure.
RandyL Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 Hi rowal: It seems I remember hearing something like that. I'll let others chime in but I think you might be right. Thanks. Quote We are all members helping other members. Please return here where you may be able to help someone else. After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs.Get help with computer problems. Join Free PC Help here Donations are welcome. Read Here
Dalo Harkin Posted September 1, 2008 Author Posted September 1, 2008 We have had a few posts where people needed to uninstall SP3 before installing IE7 Quote Intel Q6600 @ 4Ghz (Watercooled)Asus P5K premium black pearl4GB OCZ Reaper 8500260GTX Join Free PC Help - Register here Donations are welcome - here PC Build We are all members helping other members.Please return here where you may be able to help someone else.After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs.
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