IE8 Beta1 Launched

Huh?

So here is the question, which is better IE or Firefox? Also what about Silverlight cross browser, do I need it. Finale question for now, why when I want to view a video clip on the web it stops and starts until I get tired of it and close the page. Using Vista 32 bit, Home Premium HP Pavilion, oh yes media player 11. Thanks, system is less that 6 mos old.

I get the same probs as Brink...Im uninstalling it for now until IE becomes usable again...


Im surprised at how many things are broken on websites, Microsoft either made things worse in this release or they where using hundreds of customizations to make pages load correctly.

After reading the discussion on IE8 I believe I will keep IE7 until Microsoft gets the bugs out. This might not the correct link to post this to but I need your help. With reference to viewing web pages with WMP11 which has all the updates. I still have this problem of start and stop. ie; I open up the IE and these news clips or video clips are there, I click on play and it starts out good both video and sound. About 5 seconds later it stops and the little wheel spins then starts and plays for another few seconds. To tell the truth I don't what add ons, etc. that I need to correct this problem. Any help will be greatly appreicated. Thanks

Firefox is better, by miles. Less clunky, less complicated and more useful security, as well as better expandability.

Hi William,

It's really a subjective thing. I would recommend trying them both out for a bit to see which one you like best. Firefox will easily uninstall from Programs & Features if you decide you do not like it. You can run both of them at the same time if you like both of them. You would just need to pick one to be the default web browser.

Silverlight is Microsoft's add-on version of Adobe Flash Player. For now, it's not needed since there are not many sites that support it yet. It will not hurt to have it installed though. Time will tell how popular it becomes.

Shawn

Hey dmex

Thanks for the link

IE7Pro - The Ultimate Add-On for Internet Explorer

I'm just getting started with it
but so far so good.

Later Ted

Downloaded and installed IE8. Sounded interesting, but I really didn't see all that much that had changed except it was slow as hell to render webpages. Uninstalled it.

Played with IE7Pro as well. Looks interesting though the YouTube resizer plugin doesn't work for me. The videos resize, sure, but they don't *play*. Other than that, it's awesome

The new Firefox beta is really fast.
IE will not let me customize the tool bar. Takes up too much real-estate.
I was an IE man form years until Vista. Firefox now and not looking back.

Thats weird IE usually does let you customize it, anything we can do to help?

Hint: try IE7Pro