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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Evi on March 17, 2008, 10:06:00 PM

Title: Internet Explorer 8 Beta
Post by: Evi on March 17, 2008, 10:06:00 PM

Anyone try this yet? It seems a lot faster than IE7, but there are some obvious webpage display bugs in this Beta version... like this text box I\'m typing in. Nothing Microsoft can do will pull me away from Firefox, though.
 
http://filehippo.com/download_internet_explorer/ (http://filehippo.com/download_internet_explorer/)

Title: Internet Explorer 8 Beta
Post by: Phil on March 17, 2008, 10:31:18 PM

I\'ll be forced to once enough people start using it, but until then i\'m not even going to bother with it.

Title: Internet Explorer 8 Beta
Post by: Samwise on March 17, 2008, 11:26:59 PM

I might get it on my Windows box, but just as IE7 I\'ll probably never use it. :) It\'s not that it\'s bad (I hope) it\'s just that Firefox is so good I don\'t see the need to switch.

Title: Internet Explorer 8 Beta
Post by: Nolaws on March 18, 2008, 02:43:35 AM

won\'t bother. I\'m using firefox beta 3 and it\'s great !

Title: Internet Explorer 8 Beta
Post by: Evi on March 18, 2008, 01:57:16 PM

Yeah... It still feels like shitty ol\' IE... it\'s just a lil\' bit faster now. Big whoop.

Title: Internet Explorer 8 Beta
Post by: THX on March 18, 2008, 10:28:02 PM

MS is doing something unprecedented and will try to adhere to the W3C standards with the IE8 rendering engine.  Thank the European anti-competitive business mindset for that.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/03/10/dear-computerworld-theres-a-reason-why-ie8-breaks-the-web

Title: Internet Explorer 8 Beta
Post by: Luke on March 19, 2008, 09:09:47 AM

You know... The only reason I use firefox is for automatic spellcheck.

Title: Internet Explorer 8 Beta
Post by: THX on March 19, 2008, 12:57:57 PM

As long as you use anything other than IE6 (and soon 7), you\'ll make my and thousands of other people\'s jobs much easier. ;)

Title: Internet Explorer 8 Beta
Post by: Nolaws on March 19, 2008, 02:57:36 PM

adblock plus ftw!

Title: Internet Explorer 8 Beta
Post by: Evi on March 20, 2008, 04:15:51 AM

Quote from: Nolaws

adblock plus ftw!

That\'s one of the big reasons I use Firefox. I fucking hate ads and Adblock is by far the best ad blocker I\'ve used.