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Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 RC1 Released

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Dont like it then dont use it like imperial said its a release candidate but looks like youve made your mind up already.
 
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Dont like it then dont use it like imperial said its a release candidate but looks like youve made your mind up already.

Oh thanks for the advise... :slap:
 
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I see why they would want to stay at 6. I mean, IE7 is fine most of the time but sometimes it just seems to lock up trying to load a borked image or applet when it should let me browse/give up on it quicker.

Would you believe that it's actually because that so many corporate intranet web apps are designed around IE6 ActiveX eccentricities (read: "bugs") that upgrading to IE7 renders them completely inoperative?

I deal with this every single day. It's going to be a few more years before we're free of IE6 -- hell, IE9 will probably be out by then, and the corporate intranet world will just be moving to 7.
 

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Would you believe that it's actually because that so many corporate intranet web apps are designed around IE6 ActiveX eccentricities (read: "bugs") that upgrading to IE7 renders them completely inoperative?

I deal with this every single day. It's going to be a few more years before we're free of IE6 -- hell, IE9 will probably be out by then, and the corporate intranet world will just be moving to 7.
:eek:

It's understandable considering how long IE6 has been around. They got comfortable with it and didn't expect it to change. Sad though because those apps should be networking amongst themselves without requiring any version of IE.
 

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OK dont know about you-all, but 48 hrs of this is enough:banghead:

multiple freezes and locks, other than that its not bad when its working, having problems in navigation of sites taking forever to change pages..

not doing bad in tpu, but navigating email was hell:wtf:

im back on chrome tfn:rockout:
 
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one window stopped responding so i clicked to terminate that window but it closed all open IE windows (including the ones that didn't freeze). :)
 

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Ya think? Is it not to early for a new broswer already or was IE7 written like such a POS that is never got fixed? And now we have IE8 with the same crash sequences, except now they wrote in code to restore last session... WTF good does that do, oh so we are a little less inconvenianced? LOL you get my point? I am a faithful MS customer but whatever dept is responsible for and writing the IE stuff should really really be reevaluated for their skills. :banghead::rockout:

I agree with Trip - don't like it, don't use it ATP.

I've never had any issues with IE7, but, even considering how recently IE7 was released - it's good to see IE8 already in-production. Thing is, MS needs to update IE for new OSes (usually it's developed alongside the OS . . . WIN7 + IE8).

But, as much as some people do have issues - I know a lot of users of IE7, FF, Opera, whatever, that don't hit the "send report" button when something goes foobar . . . how are developers supposed to know what issues are more common tha others, what issues are still floating around, what still needs to be fixed if users don't provide feedback?

So, any bitchin and griping about IE8 after the official release - I have no pitty upon those who've decided to opt-out of helping out with IE8 development by not using it as they can.
 
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