| Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Goes Gold
Posted: 3/19/2009 5:42:21 PM |
This is it, today is the official day for Internet Explorer 8 to go gold, well in short, it is now officially not a beta anymore.Internet Explorer 8 will be available for download at noon EDT (New York,USA) in 25 languages.Download - Internet Explorer 8 (Active @ 1200hrs EDT)Check Out - New Features of Internet Explorer 8
http://vr-zone.com/forums/406770/microsoft-s-internet-explorer-8-goes-gold.html
I'm using it now. It's better then IE 7 but i'd say it's more of an evolutionary upgrade then aytning else. | |
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| Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Goes Gold
Posted: 3/19/2009 7:11:38 PM |
I'm using it now. It's better then IE 7 but i'd say it's more of an evolutionary upgrade then aytning else.
Too many Apps I was running seized working after I Installed the Beta some Months back. As soon as I uninstalled it, they worked again. I hope they got that fixed now. | |
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| Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Goes Gold
Posted: 3/19/2009 8:39:21 PM | Live Messenger and Internet Explorer are two diff things. Internet Explorer is the Web Browser software from Microsoft.
Here is the direct download link to Internet Explorer 8 for anyone that wants it.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/worldwide-sites.aspx | |
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| Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Goes Gold
Posted: 3/19/2009 9:22:02 PM | | Been running the final version now for about 10 hours since it was released and so far so good on my end. Seems like my web pages load a little faster in IE 8 vs IE 7. I've also noticed that streaming video seems to be a bit smoother as well with less Active X load lag. | |
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| Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Goes Gold
Posted: 3/19/2009 9:48:22 PM | Ill stick to firefox.
I wonder if they ripped off anything else that firefox has before them. ie; tabbed browsing was a firefox feature and IE 7 copied it.
~Tyler | |
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| Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Goes Gold
Posted: 3/20/2009 8:44:48 PM |
I'll stick to firefox.
I'd have to agree too. IE is total garbage no matter how pretty they make it look. It'll never compare to the likes of Firefox or even Chrome for that matter. | |
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| Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Goes Gold
Posted: 3/21/2009 6:38:06 PM | An Update on IE8.
I ran into some websites that are having trouble with IE8. A few websites it seems aren't compatible with IE8 forcing IE8 to prompt a stop working messege, even in compatibilty mode, which I figured this was going to happen because some older websites that still use older coding may not be compatible with IE8's new coding. Not a big deal if you use an atlernate browser, but for people that don't and strictly use IE as their main browser i'd wait a couple more months so that more websites are compatible with IE8 if you are deciding rather or not to upgrade from IE7 or just stick with IE7. | |
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| Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Goes Gold
Posted: 3/21/2009 7:23:17 PM | | I'm using IE8 now and it seems pretty good, since i'm a web designer by trade i'm glad to see it finally passes the Acid2 test. I wont have to hack my pages to death to get them looking consistant. | |
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| Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Goes Gold
Posted: 3/26/2009 12:34:21 PM | OMG IE8 is a pile of crap - it takes ages to load compared to IE7, doesn't seem that stable and opening a new tab, or 'ing a link to open it as a new tab takes forever. Wish I'd never installed it but now it's on I can't get rid of it.
Running some speed tests on my laptop (2 months old, vista, 3gb memory, fast processor) next to my old PC (Athlon 3200, XP, about 3 years old) my old PC kicks this ones butt when it comes to opening IE, opening links, opening tabs etc - I timed a site Tuesday (BBC news) and from clicking on the IE icon from a freshly booted PC (I'd opened IE once then shut it down on each, just to cache it) it took nearly 25 seconds to open IE8 and click on the bookmarked BBC news site to having it fully loaded and displayed to about 6 or 7 seconds on my IE7 older machine, and I have a 16 meg broadband link too so I know it's not that.
Back to Firefox... :-) | |
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| Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Goes Gold
Posted: 3/26/2009 3:21:11 PM | I do web design too, and I've learned to loath IE6. May it die a horrible but quick death.
IE7 isn't quite as bad.
I must download IE8 onto my Windows machine. I usually use Google Chrome there. And Firefox (and occasionally Safari) on Ubuntu.
TRiG. | |
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| Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Goes Gold
Posted: 3/27/2009 3:48:24 AM | IE8 is rubbish. Since the gold version my pc was getting BSOD everytime I used it. I ended up having to update java and all the add-ons to sort it.
Also it's slow.
Firefox rules! | |
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| Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Goes Gold
Posted: 3/27/2009 6:11:19 AM | | I'll stick to Firefox...if Google Chrome ever allows the same cookie management as FF and has the same Ad-Block Plus and No Script plug-ins available, I would switch but right now those 2 features are too priceless to lose. | |
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| Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Goes Gold
Posted: 3/27/2009 6:29:15 AM | Ive had to deal with clients already in regards to IE8 and Chrome (BETA=****ing Enormous Trashing Apparatus)
Ive had to tell them if it works in Firefox its a browser issue not my problem.. :P | |
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| Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Goes Gold
Posted: 3/27/2009 4:58:32 PM | Many People are getting the Authentication Run-around at Microsoft and can't be bothered with all the accompanying Headaches trying to get it installed.
Both IE 7 & 8 are what I call "hesitating" Browsers, you either have to wait or click again. Too slow, too bloaty, and why bother when Firefox, esp. with Add-ons walks all over MS Browsers.
IE 6 works quite nice, but not a secure Browser. I think IE has pretty well come to an End. Those still praising the MS upgrade Treadmill, those who know nothing but use whatever is thrown at them, or those who never question or compare competing Products will likely be the only Users in the Future. I sense the same slow Death that sent Netscape off to AOL.
Firefox is the Top all around simple-use Browser, and I haven't come across another one quite like it. | |
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| Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Goes Gold
Posted: 3/27/2009 5:06:40 PM | | I've personally never had a problem with slow load times or crashes with IE 8 the only problem i'm having is some of the sites that I go to aren't compatible with IE 8 even in compatibility mode, but that's why I use Opera as my main browser. I notice a few sites though are trying to update their code to be compatible with IE 8, like VR-Zone for example it used to take you to the home page when go to their website now it directs you to their forums in the mean time. | |
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| Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Goes Gold
Posted: 3/29/2009 6:12:54 PM | After all this time, and all the exploits that target IE specifically, why would anyone other than someone within an enterprise organization use it or care? Do you like walking around with a big bulls eye on your forehead? It still doesn't even have built in spell checking as can be seen by so many posts! 
Serious non-event for anyone other than Microsoft fanboys. | |
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| Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Goes Gold
Posted: 3/30/2009 10:38:38 AM | For some reason, people do use IE. Lazy people who can't be bothered to change, mainly. So web designers need to be aware of the horrible bugs in it. I'm told it's getting better. IE7 is certainly an improvement on IE6. IE8 is, I'm told, not too bad at web standards. Still, it shouldn't be your main browser. It's not very secure, either. The content-type sniffing is a security nightmare.
TRiG. | |
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| Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Goes Gold
Posted: 3/30/2009 11:05:59 AM | I concur, the problem as i see it is that Microsoft think they know better than the rest of the industry, therefore rather than following the standards set by people who actually understand issues like accessibility and the Semantic web (namely theW3C) and create their own standards that apply only to their technologies causing problems for anyone who actually follows the 'correct' standards.
Case in point, IE8 still doesn't support RSS feeds with doctypes nor does it support the Application/XHTML+XML MIME type. | |
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