News - Microsoft Interner Explorer 8 now available to download

[HEXUS]

Right on cue, the latest itteration of the world's most popular browser is now available.

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[Singh400]

What no direct download links? You can find them here. Might have to clean install Vista SP1 and then install IE8. Ooooo this is exiciting

[lodore]

hello,
you may as well wait for sp2 before clean install.

lets hope the 64bit version of IE8 doesnt crash on everywebsite=(. the RC did on vista home premium 64bit. so im definatly gonna image first.

[Pob255]

The big question is who actually wants it?

[matty-hodgson]

for those people actually excited about this.. can i just point you here

[Emirzan]

Interested to try it out. Probably (well almost certainly) going to ditch it after the first 10 minutes of use and stick with firefox, but I'd still like to try it. Can't get any of the download links to work, must be a lot of demand

[NightshadowUK]

Well I'm having a gander and my first impression is that it's trying to be too smart for it's own good, the end result being clutter. I've already turned off pretty much all of the new features...

[lodore]

I will mainly install it hoping it is at least a tiny bit safer. I wont use it.
btw once your disapointed go here
It isnt to bad thou
Its alot faster than IE7. aka its acually usable with multiple tabs on on vista.
ill probaly image and try tomoz.

[jackvdbuk]

opera is crashing ALOT for me lately... though i still love opera, cant live with out speed dial

[lodore]

opera is crashing ALOT for me lately... though i still love opera, cant live with out speed dial

9.25 was fine.
9.5 seemed to crash alot
9.6 and 9.61 and 9.63 and the current 9.64 seem to crash alot.
im hoping the later builds will help solve this.

[Funkstar]

for me 9.64 has been like a rock. 9.60-3 were a bit of a pain though. This is on Vista 64bit.

Speed Dial, garbage can for tabs, and a right click context menu that has a lot more usable features than IE ever has. I also like the pop up status bar at the bottom of the page as it loads, lots of useful information about the page you are loading.

[Brewster0101]

for me 9.64 has been like a rock. 9.60-3 were a bit of a pain though. This is on Vista 64bit.

Speed Dial, garbage can for tabs, and a right click context menu that has a lot more usable features than IE ever has. I also like the pop up status bar at the bottom of the page as it loads, lots of useful information about the page you are loading.

Its funny how people suddenly love Opera, but there are nothing but comments about crashes. This version crashes, this version, and this version... Sorry but Firefox doesn't seem to crash ever...

Oh it maybe 0.00001s slower, but it works all the time....

Opera on Symbian is also very over rated.

[aidanjt]

Sorry but Firefox doesn't seem to crash ever...

I've had firefox crash, lots of times.

[lodore]

I dumped firefox at version 2 because all it did was crash.
genrally opera is fine. bittorrent client comes in useful sometimes for downloading linux distros.

[TheVoice]

Presumably Vista x64 users should install the x86 version if they want Flash etc to work, right?

[Funkstar]

Its funny how people suddenly love Opera, but there are nothing but comments about crashes. This version crashes, this version, and this version... Sorry but Firefox doesn't seem to crash ever...

It also recovers well from a crash, letting you open your tabs again as they were before the crash.

Personally I have a feeling it is flash within Opera that is casuing the major problems. Of course Opera should catch this and handle it better. The reason I think this is I used to get crashes when going forwards and back on here a lot, but never got it on another forum that doesn't have ads at all.