boxst

Is here, in case you didn't know: Internet Explorer 8: Home page

I know that quite a lot of you seem to prefer other browsers, but I quite like IE and this adds some features and looks slicker.

Steve

Iain Young

It's quicker and uses less resources too

chrisowe

I can't get it to download, I click on 'download now' and nothing happens.

boxst

You have to select America as your country and then it'll download.

Steve

bob269

No you don't. I had no problems

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

This is the final rls is it? I'll prolly just wait for it to popup in winupdates.

markr1963

Not on my lappy it isn't. It takes ages to load. Once it does, if one stays within a single tab, it doesn't seem too bad. Opening another tab is painfully slow but not as slow as opning another window. Maybe my installation is a one off but IMHO, based on the above, it's horrible to use.
Lappy is an HP 8710w with 4GB RAM running XP SP3 BTW

Iain Young

Hmm, I'm running it on several machines, (ranging from slow XP boxes, to quick Vista machines) and it comes up almost instantaneously on all of them. It even works well on my old Dell XPS Gen2 laptop (with an old 2.13GHz Pentium M 770 processor and 1gb ram).

Are you sure something else isn't using the resources? Have you got any toolbars installed?

markr1963

To be fair I have all manner of stuff running on said laptop. So I'll give IE8 the benefit of the doubt until I've tested it on something else. No getting away from the fact that on that laptop IE8 is considerably slower than IE7.

More testing required...

Iain Young

Could well be something you have installed that doesn't work well with the new browser (things like popup blockers, anti-spyware progs, toolbars etc)...

markr1963

IE8 works very nicely on a Vista vm running on that lappy

Too much crap on the host OS? Definitely Time for a rebuild perhaps.

Dedrater

Its total ****e, there are now hundreds of exploits that are in the public domain, Ms can't keep up.

This is an interesting read..

IT PRO: Blogs: Davey Winder: Google Chrome stands alone at PWN2OWN

Iain Young

Well, at least it works. FF keeps crashing on my machines (XP and Vista), and won't display web pages properly on several site I frequent. I refuse to install the spyware ridden Chrome (which also doesn't display pages properly), and Opera is just too frustrating to use.

Brun

If it ain't broke.............
Brun - stil on IE 6

Dedrater

Strange, because FF and Chrome are the only two browsers that are fully web compliant, the rendering engine in both display and implement HTML and CSS in the correct way, thats why web developers have to build one version of their web sites for IE and another for standard browsers.

Out of interest, post a couple of these sites which don't display right in FF.


What spyware? most of the stuff on the net about Chrome spying on its users is written by people who haven't got a clue

Protocolv2Spec - google-safe-browsing - Client specification for the Google Safe Browsing v2.2 protocol - Google Code

Preventing paranoia: when does Google Chrome talk to Google.com?

Iain Young

That's not actually true. IE8 is pretty much fully compliant with the standards as well. The difference is that the IE series of browsers offer a lot of non-compliant extensions to the "language" which other browsers do not support. The upshot of this is that there are a load of websites out there written to take advantage of the IE extensions, and so they do not work well on other browsers. This is no different to all the Google extensions in Chrome for example.

Of course, one of the reasons that developers use the IE features is that they want to provide a richer experience for the end user (us developers always want to play with the latest toys ). This means that frequently you will have several different versions of the same website as you can do stuff in one browser that just isn't possible in the others. Unfortunately, standards compliant html can be very restricting.

Standards compliant html should render fine in all browsers.

[quopte]Out of interest, post a couple of these sites which don't display right in FF.[/quote]

For a start, my internet banking (until very recently) didn't work at all. Numerous other sites I have discovered whilst randomly browsing around, and scoobynet crashes FF for me quite regularly, and the bbc news site won't show any video (works fine in IE8 though).

Just because they don't "spy" on you at the moment, doesn't mean that they won't in the future. The software certainly has the capability. Any software with this ability built into the very foundations of the coding principals has to be viewed with caution. Google have proven themselves over the years to somewhat ruthless in their quest for global domination