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 Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 22:22 Post subject: IE8 |
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Anyone else on vista having problems with internet explorer 8? i just put this back to ie7 because of slow responces and tabs freezing.
::EDIT:: oops  This should really have been in computer bytes
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| Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 22:15 Post subject: Re: IE8 |
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| DYLAN wrote: |
Anyone else on vista having problems with internet explorer 8? i just put this back to ie7 because of slow responces and tabs freezing.
::EDIT:: oops This should really have been in computer bytes |
I have XP Pro and IE8 on my old desktop PC and on my new laptop and I must say I'm having no problems. Rightly or wrongly I have avoided Vista because of bad reports and specifically had my new laptop set up with XP Pro. The people I bought it from were not surprised in the least and said they supply more computers with XP P than they do with Vista.
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Vista is not that bad when you get used to it but it loves memory, we put an extra gig in this when we got it, For some reason though ie8 was shocking, How long has it been out?
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| Vista is not that bad when you get used to it but it loves memory, we put an extra gig in this when we got it, For some reason though ie8 was shocking, How long has it been out? |
I don't know, but I think it's only a few months - it's copyright date is 2009, if that's relevant. |
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Ok thanks i'll leave it a while and retry, Dont know whether it was all that suggested site garb that was slowing it or what, Opening a new tab would take what seemed like ages probably 5 seconds or so where using ie7 it's instant 
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In fairnes, my old desktop (which is XP Home, not Pro as I said D'OH!!) takes a couple of seconds to open a new tab, but then it takes a couple of seconds to do anything!
Just so you can see what an old clunker it is, here's its system info:
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name DESKTOP
System Manufacturer HP Pavilion 05
System Model DA110A-ABU 423
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 1 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~1793 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD VG31316, 11/10/2002
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)"
User Name DESKTOP\Owner
Time Zone GMT Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 768.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 207.13 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 1.08 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
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This is an acer aspire 5315
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I'm pretty disappointed with Vista ... and now, the Vista / IE8 combo seems to have gone a step too far!
the ONLY useful thing I've found is ...
Instead of losing all your open IE windows when you get the 'internet explorer has stopped responding' message, at least it seems to manage to recover your open windows for you, so you can carry on where you left off!
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and now, the Vista / IE8 combo seems to have gone a step too far!
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Can't agree more
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Forget IE go for Opera. Way better.
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