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...is now released. If you use IE, then it's time to upgrade guys!

Nooooo! FIREFOX!!!

Yeeeeees! FIREFOX!!!


Seriously though, I reviewed IE8 before Christmas for Pc Plus magazine. It's not really meant for today's machines with 1GB of RAM. It's meant for the next generation with 4GB. Like Chrome (which is also designed for future machines) it has a multi-process architecture that resembles a small operating system. It's VERY heavy on resources, but not as heavy as Chrome.

I'll be sticking with Firefox and now that MSN has been updated it no longer automatically opens my email in IE but in my *Default* browser.

IE8 sounds horrible. I'm proud to be a "late adopter". Let everyone else take the inevitable Microsoft pain!

I can't say I ever noticed that, Tomo, I found it no worse than IE7 when it comes to resources

IE8 really is a decent browser guys. Load it up, play around in it, see if you like it. IE is heading in the direction of standards compliance, and that's all I care about!

Anyway, if anyone is interested, here's my review

Firefox all the way, although I have some annoying error pop-up when I start it that tells me some updates couldn't be installed which an uninstall/reinstall doesn't seem to have sorted

Crazy Browser!!!

OK, sorry, coat, hat, door...

Farlsborough wrote:Firefox all the way, although I have some annoying error pop-up when I start it that tells me some updates couldn't be installed which an uninstall/reinstall doesn't seem to have sorted

It's not for plugins is it? Can't they just be disabled for now? Or am I being thick?

I've just downloaded it and it already feels much faster than IE7.

So far so good.

I'm still trying to fool my internet bank's website into thinking that I am using IE because it doesn't work with Firefox (which I'm using now). And none of the add-ons that I tried have worked. Perhaps I will try IE8 and see if that works.

Organi wrote:I'll be sticking with Firefox and now that MSN has been updated it no longer automatically opens my email in IE but in my *Default* browser.

I did not know this! I hate opening my e-mails and having the terrible Internet Explorer open. Firefox rules baby!

kolm wrote:I can't say I ever noticed that, Tomo, I found it no worse than IE7 when it comes to resources

Ah. It may be that they've put it into single process / multi-threaded mode by default. It operates in three modes. The one I tested chewed my twin head server!

Tomo wrote:

kolm wrote:I can't say I ever noticed that, Tomo, I found it no worse than IE7 when it comes to resources

Ah. It may be that they've put it into single process / multi-threaded mode by default. It operates in three modes. The one I tested chewed my twin head server!

haha, and there was me thinking they did something right for a change
To be fair I didn't test it much, I had to run it in a VM which got annoying after using it for a day, which I assume is less than the battering you probably gave it

Now of course if anyone wants to buy me a top of the range PC for the purposes of research so that I can properly test these things..