Comments on: IE 8 Rains On Firefox Parade, Chrome Spikes The Punch

By: bodydetox

bodydetox — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:09:44 +0000

Internet Explorer 8 is more stable than IE 7 that is why i like it. I always experience freezing browser window in IE 7.

By: rafhon9s

rafhon9s — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:44:17 +0000

so for all you fat dumb and happy windows and billgate is for the little round can next to you desk It is all trash so why would anyone want a new (old ) browser or have anything to do with windows

foxfire is still the best there is and go linux for a real down to earth OS If chrome ever able to run on linux may give it a try

so down windows and up linux

By: dark41

dark41 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:26:13 +0000

I haven't had a freeze or lockup on IE8 Beta 2 yet on 5 completely different systems. I've loaded up to 50 windows and 10 with over 20 tabs. No problems.

But the deal breaker for me at this point is Java. Doesn't work with less than build 6 update 10. Many sites are still geared toward build 6 update 7. So many pages using Java don't load correctly now.

IE8 does have crash recovery, memory of last sites visited, etc.. People can use what they want. For our house, it'll be IE8 exclusively once Java is sorted out. It's faster than IE7, easier than FF (sorts my favorites the way I want without having to spend hours doing it manually among other things), more secure than Chrome, and personally I'd never put anything from Apple on our systems.

By: Jim608

Jim608 — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:58:11 +0000

Installed Chrome at the office desktop and home laptop. Seemed impressive at first. Then one compute problem after another on both machines.

Quickly uninstalled Chrome and all was normal (?) again.

Chrome? No thanks. I'll stick with Firefox.

By: sTEVE39

sTEVE39 — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:14:00 +0000

I tried both CHROME and IE 8. Why not explain more clearly that the results they offer are not representative of the product to come and allow users to easily describe the problems.

CHROME made me feel that I was back in the old 56K days. Beautiful and S L O W. IE8 was faster, but after a few minutes thinks started jamming up (just like IE7).

SO I quickly went back to Firefox.

NO MORE BETAS FOR ME!!!

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:11:22 +0000

The question is…how much are you being paid by Microsoft to tout this rubbish?

I find it a bit rich that microsoft I.E. 8 have introduced a smart screen filter, especially when their Internet Explorer and their shoddy code has been responsible for much of it. I would say its about 5 years too late.

I use Opera and firefox and there is no way that I.E.8 beats any of them. Sorry but you are very much living in cloud cuckoo land.

By: asis l

asis l — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:38:40 +0000

looked at chrome- just not that impressed. I use IE6 on my XP machines as it is more stable there. Like IE7 on my Vista machine(by the way- I love Vista since I tweeked it a bit) Run firefox on my Ubuntu system. I have IE6 on my windows 2000 server, but thinking of changing the server over to Apache. Of all the systems, I still like Oprah and IE6 most–

By: Cindy

Cindy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:11:22 +0000

well I tried IE8,well turns out macafee virus program doesnt work with IE8 so I uninstall the update,went back to IE7 and by the way I have firefox..love it

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:53:45 +0000

What I like the very most about IE8 is that it supports font embedding. None of the other browsers do.

By: IdahoStar

IdahoStar — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:47:37 +0000

I am 81 and been working with PCs for over 30 years. Am still learning and always will be. For instance I have IE7 on my Desktop that has XP on it when suddenly about a month and half ago it quit working. I could still receive & send my email no problem but couldn't get online to do anything. I had removed & reinstalled it but it didn't help. To make a long story short I am cleaning my PC in preparation to reformat to see if that will help. Ran into this program "Safari" which I had no idea what it was. Clicked it and what do you know I am online again. I LIKE IT. It is very different than IE but it works. After reading all these other remarks will be trying some of the others too. Never did like Netscape and as far as Norton never did like their products. Basically prefer an anti-virus program that will prevent virus' etc before they get on my PC rather than after when they say "Oh btw" you have a virus shall we remove it? Have been using AVG for 7 years and never had a virus etc because it stops them before they get on my PC/LT (LT has Vista which I love too).