IE8 Realease

[kevh]

Is there any probs with having Firefox and IE on same pc and can favs be easily imported?

 

Will give IE8 a week or 2 then might try FF :)

 

 

 

Cheers Kev :cool:

[BeeCeeBee]

Since it is virtually impossible to safely remove IE entirely, FF almost always co-exists with Internet Explorer. Importing favorites into Firefox is really only a mouse click or two.

[RandyL]

Cool Diurno. Glad you have no issues.

 

Help us out when you can as it is new for everyone.

 

You're the man.

[RandyL]

I've been running FireFox and IE for years side by side including at the same time.

 

No problem at all.

[Diurno]

Oki Randy, will do my best :D

 

Even though, I am a microsoft boy. I know of friends that run firefox and IE and no problems at all. Just like mr beeceebee said, it is very hard to completly remove IE, so they work like a "team".

[Dalo Harkin]

Im with Diurno on IE - but I wont be going the IE8 route just yet - and you only gave it 4* diurno what is it that you dropped the 1* for? just out of curiosity

[Diurno]

I personally prefer the design of the other IE (IE7). It looks like you went back in time to Windows 98. IE7 made me feel like I was using a beautifully designed Mac and IE8 is like a warning telling me that I'm still using Windows.

 

Does that make sense?

 

The boxes are squares instead of the lovely roundy shaped in IE7. But apart from that IE8 rocks! Some useful features like the "suggested websites" (similar websites, with the same context) and some hiden ones that I'm still trying to work out what they do.

[kevh]

The square, naff lookin tabs , were strangely the first thing that caught my eye.

 

I spose they have to rotate the look now so IE 9 will be "wow nice lookin rounded tabs" (again :D )

 

Thanks for advice too

 

:cool:

[help4me]

Just thought I would let you guys know, that so far no errors or problems with IE8. To be honest seems pretty cool! I am a bit biased when it comes to browsers because I'm a Microsoft boy and never really tried any other browsers.

 

IE8= 4* out of 5*

 

So it would seem from the posts in this thread that there is a conflict between IE8 and XP. The pc we tried IE8 on was running XP home.... and the computer crashed.. then froze.

 

So far no one seems to have issues with IE8 and Vista.

[maynardvdm]

Lol. I still havent got it installed on my pc with is running XP SP3. Could just be coincidence. :)

[Match]

I still havent got it installed on my pc with is running XP SP3

 

But were waiting for your review, how are you supposed to write a review on a program you can't install and get to work :D

[Dalo Harkin]

I thought this was fitting seeing as though I was looking at this thread lol

sorry about the poor imaging, I was rushing :D

[kevh]

just to update from my pcs , Home pc is running Vista and IE8 and all seems to be fine , work XP pc after the IE8 install is still runnin slow starting up on IE8 and also on Outlook express , so could it be something in the update that came with IE8 to do with connecting to the net ??:confused: or doing some extra processing in the background , like quick search in vista, that my poor old XP pc hasnt got the power to handle??

(normal files opening pretty much the same)

 

 

Maybe there will be an MS update soon ;)

 

Kev :cool:

[maynardvdm]

I installed IE8 on someones pc with XP and is very slow to start up. Hope they fix it quickly ;)

[Diurno]

Oh... thats interesting so people seem to be having problems with IE8 and XP but no problems with vista and IE8.

[kevh]

Sorry to bring up this thread again , but after auto MS update yesterday IE8 seems to have jumped up a gear and is launching much quicker 3-4 times id say , only stutters a bit when first looking at favs (must be loading in some favicon s or something :rolleyes: )

 

Happy now and use Firefox too when i feel the need :)

 

Cheers Kev :cool: