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    IE8 good or bad experience

    Have you installed and use IE8 and all is well
    or installed IE8 and having problems?

    please list your problems with system specs.

    please advise of remedies to fix error issues.


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    Re: IE8 good or bad experience

    Its wonderful browser and I like it very much.

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    Re: IE8 good or bad experience

    like it-no problems. Seems to be more stable than IE7

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    Re: IE8 good or bad experience

    no problems at all so far , i avoided the beta's and waited till full release , im very happy with it , moved over from Chrome

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    Re: IE8 good or bad experience

    Agreed. It's a big improvement over IE7 and so far no problems - knock on wood...

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    Re: IE8 good or bad experience

    the only reason im giving it a 9/10 is because of no download manager like in firefox, otherwise its great. Both for advanced & basic users.

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    Re: IE8 good or bad experience

    Quote Originally Posted by fieseler View Post
    the only reason im giving it a 9/10 is because of no download manager like in firefox, otherwise its great. Both for advanced & basic users.
    to remove IE8
    How do I uninstall or remove Internet Explorer 8?

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/dd441788.aspx

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700#fixit4me

    http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/200...ble-today.aspx

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    Re: IE8 good or bad experience

    Installed and using without any problem.

    I do notice that when I open the browser, it takes a few seconds too long to load my home page (Google News). Mozilla 3.0.7 and IE7 loaded faster. I am talking about three (3) to five (5) seconds tops. Those anyone else notice this small delay?

    After this initial (but not troublesome delay), it works fine in all other areas. Switched from Firefox because safety features in IE8 are supposedly better.

    Using 64bit version.

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    Re: IE8 good or bad experience

    I'm having load up time issues. With IE 7, home page would load up in a half a second with IE 8, home page loads in 8 seconds. It's way slower on home page load up and when switching from tabs a 2 to 3 second delay. With IE 7 tab switching was instantaneous. Other than that IE 8 seemed to function fine, although I am using Vista home premium 32 bit. Just wondering if the 64 bit version is as trouble some. From what I have seen and read all the 64 for bit versions are fine and pages load even faster the IE 7. I wonder if there is some sort of compatibility issue with 32 bit versus 64 bit. So I went back to IE 7 for now until some fix might be made available.

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    Re: IE8 good or bad experience

    Quote Originally Posted by bassfisher6522 View Post
    I'm having load up time issues. With IE 7, home page would load up in a half a second with IE 8, home page loads in 8 seconds. It's way slower on home page load up and when switching from tabs a 2 to 3 second delay. With IE 7 tab switching was instantaneous. Other than that IE 8 seemed to function fine, although I am using Vista home premium 32 bit. Just wondering if the 64 bit version is as trouble some. From what I have seen and read all the 64 for bit versions are fine and pages load even faster the IE 7. I wonder if there is some sort of compatibility issue with 32 bit versus 64 bit. So I went back to IE 7 for now until some fix might be made available.
    That could be a result of frag, and possible disk issues. Installing and loading IE8 (and any other software can result in scattered files that your CPU has to compile and execute in order)

    have you tried this?:How To Make Vista more responsive and faster

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