Comments on: Hands-on with IE 8: A giant step for Microsoft

Internet Explorer 8 takes another large leap forward for the world's most-used browser, but is it enough to make devoted Firefox, Chrome, and Safari fans switch?

[G-RUBZ]

Firefox is sssllloooooowww...

GOOGLE CHROME FTW!!!

[Bill Clinton Fan]

What a mess this IE8 is..

[tpm9129]

I downloaded IE 8 and now can not get it to function. Says it can't find the web page. What do I do now?

[whozzit]

Try another web page?

[tramp848861]

All this talk about IE 7,8 or whatever and the fact that it is embedded as part of the os, don't believe me go to task manager and shut down Internet explorer, yet the Bill Gate fans out there say tyhere is no monopoly. How long before Wild Bill decides, he's not making enough money anymore and makes IE incompatable w/out dwnlding some other program under a comjplete different company and name. Bull****, there's no monopoly.. Hey, Nero did it with their DTS app. it was free now it's a &15.00 plug-in. Personally, I couldn't care less what anybody uses. My Home page is Google and then I'm usually gone to Iso-hunt, then Utorrent.. Then Nero, then my DVD player. what did all you "developers" and "gamers" do before computers.? Gawd, there's more to life than making scary monsters or flames or satanic crypts that don't even sync to the music if the beat is too fast. As in Music out of Holland, Denmark etc...ya know thrash, death, etc.... Can't wait till the day comes that somebody figures out how to blow the whole internet out of whack... I'm ready R U?

[whozzit]

I don't know what all the hullabaloo is about. The neatest thing about IE is that there's no reason to use it if you don't want to. It's there. So what? Don't use it. No one cares! I'm using Vista Ultimate (with Vista Manager to cancel out the UAC) on this machine, with IE8, and it never crashes or does anything wrong. I'm also using Firefox and Avant on this same machine and, still, no crashing or anything else. I use a quad-core processor and 4 GB's of RAM and five HDD's (USB and firewire) and the whole ISP is wireless (Digitalpath). I think that the last time that I had an unexpected crash was with WIN98 SE. And I'm not a "gamer". The games are the first thing that's removed from any new PC. I think that most of what's going on in this discussion group is old, small, slow computers.

[ESUNintel]

I'm happy I have a Mac, and that is ships with Safari rather than some boring, non-creative, browser. For development, I'll stick to FireFox and it's plug-ins, which no one else can match.

[MafiaPenguin]

...ships with Safari rather than some boring, non-creative, browser...
like Safari?

[dwebb5]

"Internet Explorer 8 doesn't hold up well."

That is an understatement. So far is crashes every time I use it.
The customization is a joke. The browser crashed when I visited their site.
I think IE8 should have stayed in beta a while longer.

[kboateng]

The use of IE for me is far more useful than the other afformentioned ones. Firefox seems too open for me and looks kiddish cause everyone has access to it and can do whatever they want with it. It's like the LEGO of web browsers. Safari should just stick to OSX and not bother with the pc sphere and Chrome is like the baby of the bunch struggling for attention. IE had it's issues in the past and although most of these new features have been available in other browsers for a while I still like the look and feel of IE, plus the new additions and it's stability. You can't always look at the past as a measuring stick or there'll never be progress. If that was the case then all these new browsers design and look came from IE since it was the main monopoly that they looked to mimic so I guess they shouldnt look as they do either huh.

And I don't remember firefox coming with most of these features...it's all by extensions just as you could've gotten the same types of extensions for IE, although the LEGO browser has more by it's nature but it's not like it comes out of the box with the ability to do everything IE8 can do now. And it's not like the add-ons make it run any faster either so u gotta take the good with the bad u kow. IE8 is great for me right now.

On Friday, during the launch meeting of IE8 in Istanbul-TURKEY, MS Naseem Tuffaha Director for MS EMEA software development and platforms (he was also a part of the development team of 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0 ) said that
"IE 8 is 10 times secure than IE7 and 2 times more secure than FireFox" ..
In other words...
FireFox is 5 times secure than IE7.
And... According to Microsoft's performance tests..
You can reach www.microsoft.com with IE8 in 3.75 seconds. With firefox 3.47 seconds
Also www.msn.com 0.83 seconds with IE8 and 0.55 seconds with google chrome
Kemalettin BULMACI
editor-in-chief CNET Turkey

[whozzit]

That's all very impressive... But not to someone who's been online since '92 and "Google-Proofs" his and everbody else's machines at every opportunity. All games are immediately removed from any new OS (that's not what an OS is for). A "working" machine doesn't dabble in any "0.55 second" stuff. Hardly worth considering...

I have the Windows Internet Explorer XP SP 3 installed on my PC. Will tthere be a problem to instal the IE 8. Please advice before I can download. Thanks

[whozzit]

I think that you probably mean that you have Windows XP SP3 installed on your machine. Mabe Windows XP Professional SP3? But, in any event, just be sure to get IE8 for Windows XP (not for Windows Vista) and it should install okay...

[deenewthis]

listen there are still alot of people that will not add anything to there computers cause they are afraid to this cause of malware n virus. One time i helped a friend of mine get a new computer added firefox for him also made look like ie. but two days later he freaked out like a blind person where somone moved the furniture around. H e did in a round about way that ity was faster just so use to ie. It just shows that so many people that have computers barely know where the power button is. See i teach a class on basic computer use and alot of people are afraid of change

[clsmithj]

People still use internet exploder :D

[MafiaPenguin]

lols

[whozzit]

Yep... And the internet, too!

[bluesman54]

I love internet explorer!!! Using a browser is ones preference and that's it. I'm starting to believe after reading a lot of these comments that some people have nothing else better to do than complain about or knock something down. I have tried the other browser's and yes the almighty CNet (bias) browser Firefox too. Wow! Lightning speed...incredible apps and on and on is all I hear about on this site. But you know what? Firefox is like that at the very beginning and then becomes no different than any other browser that I have tried to use. It has it's up and downs like all the others after normal use over a period of time. All browsers are good & they all have their downfalls too in my mind. So choose what you like and be on with it. [This comment was posted using IE7 with no problems whatsoever!] "lol"

[G-RUBZ]

The people who are having problems with IE are the people who don't know what the EFF they're doing when it comes to computers!

[bluesman54]

Unfortunately that is the case and a very good point G-RUBZ . One of the most important things that people have to learn to do is to maintain their computers. A computer is no different than a car. If you take care of your car with proper maintenance, (repair if/when necessary) and know what you are doing in the process. You are going to have a great car that is going to last you a very long time with minimal problems. The same goes with your PC. If you don't do this your PC can and WILL sh*t the bed at any time.

[Ted Bruner]

I attempted yesterday to post, but this is a new machine and it probably didn't "sign in", even though I was able to write in this little box. (Vista 64bit Toshiba 305, yadayada).
What I said then is still true. The IE8 experience has really not been good or pleasant for me. I open 8 tabs, Weather related and NASA Live. These use Flash and Java, as they are weather maps in motion (East Pacific, West Pacific, Midwest and Midwest closeup; from Accuweather, Weather.com, and Wunderground).
With extremely few exceptions, I cannot shut it down, either single tab at a time or as a cluster without needing to use the 3-key to force it to quit. Even when it does "seem" to shut down properly, or when I have shut down and restart after returning from work, the program goes into some sort of stroke reaction. It finds "bad tabs", notifies me that they must be shut down, and then proceeds to "restore". The whole process takes up an unacceptable amount of time and resources.
This new Toshiba came out of the box (yesterday) with IE7, and I'm keeping it, ... or replacing it with FF; although I do not really like FF - too many steps to get to "full-screen" without borders.
Unless this new IE8 release can stop crashing almost every time I use it, IE will not be considered as a "choice".

[MafiaPenguin]

Because F11 is really hard to get to.

[Ted Bruner]

Haha! ... so many 1's.

Actually I was able to isolate the problem; it's the NOAA weather site rad/sat. It actually kept IE7 from being able to open once Jave installed its update.

Without those two NOAA sites, 7 works really well, ... and I suppose 8 might work well too, just going to wait and see, ... for a while at least.

Also, I do have a Logitech keyboard which requires that you actually turn on the F-switches! So F-11 can become tricky, ... at least on that one.

[fargo721]

Some people wouldn't be happy if they couldn't whine about Microsoft. It reminds me of Vista's debut, most of the glitches were operators "head space" that was the real problem. I personally use Chrome on occasion, but as far as the rest , you can keep them. I'll make IE and chrome my two.

[reyn3000]

So much for IE8< even in combat mode (compatibilty mode) It still wont run my webpage. ALL the buttons are gone! not even present. SO either build again or dump IE8
NICE JOB BILL!

[soubhikroy]

Can anyone tell me why Google does not work with IE 8. Moreover some sites like ndtv.com and hindustantimes.com does not open with this browser. Should I continue using this browser?

[sahil5675]

I HATEEEEEEE INTERNET EXPLORER!! IT SUCKS MORE THANT ANYTHING IN THE SOFTWARE GENRE..
SOMEBODY PLZ ASK THEM TO ADDING ON THIS BULLSH.....

[monkeyfun14]

No one can take you seriously when you talk like a 10 year old learn how to make a proper sentence and come back. Thank you.

[Arkfirefighter1]

I really like IE 8 more because of its feature's... yeah the speed is slow and it freeze's at time's.... but yeah thats something MS will work out in its future update's..... I downloaded firefox and opera and i noticed how it slowed my computer down and im running Vista Home Premium with 2 gig's of ram and over 250 gigs of hard disk space...... but you guys have your opinion but im sticking with IE 8