To IE8 or not to IE8?

Simple, two-part question: Why should I install IE8 on my Vista Ultimate
(x32), and why should I not install IE8?

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Ronin

 

I'm using IE8 on my Vista Home Premium 32 without any trouble.
It's more secure than IE7.
I think maybe a little faster
Personally I like it better than FF.

You can always give it a try for your self and if you don't like remove
it.
That's the only way you will know for sure.


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mopar

 

I dont have time to explain, just one sentence:

Do install it, it's great, and if not - as usual there're settings that
people leave in wrong positions, so check out all settings/options, disable
rubbish addons, etc and it's reall fast!!
You MAY need to occasional enable "compatibility view" option for some older
sites who aren't aware of IE8 & therefore get somewhat corrupted (e.g.
YouTube videos take time to load), but as usual with new application,
everyone else is qucikly aligning to work with it, and NOT with old IE7.

I really like new IE8 search text within a webpage, too long to explain,
it's a blockbuster.

What I don't like is how MS promotes its Bing search engine versus Google,
but you can set to Google, it's just that Bing appeared first, i delete dit
and added Google instead

 

Hi, this is Feran with the Internet Explorer Outreach Team. Like
suggested above, IE8 is a more secure and reliable browser. You can read
more at the IEBlog - 'IEBlog' () and check out
these reviews regarding its security features - 'Is IE8 Actually Safer?
- PC World'
()
'IE 8: Its Security Is Worth the Download | ITworld'
()
Also at this time if you download IE8 from 'Internet Explorer 8 -
Better Browser' ()
Microsoft will donate 8 meals to Feeding America.
Thanks,
Feran


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feranmIE8team

 

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:51:40 -0700, "Ronin"
<ronin@here&there.everywhere> wrote:
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>Simple, two-part question: Why should I install IE8 on my Vista Ultimate
>(x32), and why should I not install IE8?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

Sure, if you like bugs and incompatibility install it. (Not that IE7
is exactly bug free, but at least it didn't have the compatibility
issue.

 

Ronin wrote:<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> Simple, two-part question: Why should I install IE8 on my Vista Ultimate
> (x32), and why should I not install IE8?
> <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

I use IE8 on Vista as it's a more secure browser than IE7.

<http://blogs.technet.com/andrew/archive/2009/03/30/internet-explorer-8-on-vista-and-windows-7.aspx>

 

Thanks! Personally, I think "security" is overhyped, and I look at people
from MS (or those who simply stick to the flypaper) as less than reliable
witnesses. Show me a few (better yet, a lot) cases of some such issue in the
wild, and you might have a start on making me think it's an issue to be
worried about.

Thanks again,
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Ronin

"Vista Succubus Hunter" <Sucuubus@Hunter.com> wrote in message
news:e9V3YtE9JHA.200@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> Ronin wrote:<!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro-->
>> Simple, two-part question: Why should I install IE8 on my Vista Ultimate
>> (x32), and why should I not install IE8?
>><!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
>
> I use IE8 on Vista as it's a more secure browser than IE7.
>
> <http://blogs.technet.com/andrew/archive/2009/03/30/internet-explorer-8-on-vista-and-windows-7.aspx> <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

I knew I'd get at least one of these. All opinion, with next to zero
information.

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Ronin

"+Bob+" <nomailplease@example.com> wrote in message
news:lvh2455t8umnqtjp06ktb31c2gb7310mkc@4ax.com...<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:51:40 -0700, "Ronin"
> <ronin@here&there.everywhere> wrote:
><!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro-->
>>Simple, two-part question: Why should I install IE8 on my Vista Ultimate
>>(x32), and why should I not install IE8?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
>
> Sure, if you like bugs and incompatibility install it. (Not that IE7
> is exactly bug free, but at least it didn't have the compatibility
> issue. <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

Thanks you! Thanks for the reading list. A good start, anyway!

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Ronin

"feranmIE8team" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
news:7e79fded8d8cbe5bc25bf483d8a19c49@nntp-gateway.com...<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
>
> Hi, this is Feran with the Internet Explorer Outreach Team. Like
> suggested above, IE8 is a more secure and reliable browser. You can read
> more at the IEBlog - 'IEBlog' () and check out
> these reviews regarding its security features - 'Is IE8 Actually Safer?
> - PC World'
> ()
> 'IE 8: Its Security Is Worth the Download | ITworld'
> ()
> Also at this time if you download IE8 from 'Internet Explorer 8 -
> Better Browser' ()
> Microsoft will donate 8 meals to Feeding America.
> Thanks,
> Feran
>
>
> --
> feranmIE8team <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

Thanks! Nice list of "things to look out for".

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Ronin

"JEWboy" <Nojunkmetalblade@nojunkprodigy.net> wrote in message
news:ObnCDf48JHA.4948@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
>I dont have time to explain, just one sentence:
>
> Do install it, it's great, and if not - as usual there're settings that
> people leave in wrong positions, so check out all settings/options,
> disable rubbish addons, etc and it's reall fast!!
> You MAY need to occasional enable "compatibility view" option for some
> older sites who aren't aware of IE8 & therefore get somewhat corrupted
> (e.g. YouTube videos take time to load), but as usual with new
> application, everyone else is qucikly aligning to work with it, and NOT
> with old IE7.
>
> I really like new IE8 search text within a webpage, too long to explain,
> it's a blockbuster.
>
> What I don't like is how MS promotes its Bing search engine versus Google,
> but you can set to Google, it's just that Bing appeared first, i delete
> dit and added Google instead <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

Ronin wrote:<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> Thanks! Personally, I think "security" is overhyped, and I look at
> people from MS (or those who simply stick to the flypaper) as less than
> reliable witnesses. Show me a few (better yet, a lot) cases of some such
> issue in the wild, and you might have a start on making me think it's an
> issue to be worried about.
>
> Thanks again,<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

Security is overhyped? If someone is dumb enough to point and click,
that's the clueless masses, then it's game set and match.

<http://www.physorg.com ews98802904.html>
<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/04/hundreds_of_thousands_of_micro_1.html>
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/13/weekend_twitter_worm_attacks/>
<http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross_site_scripting>

 

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:33:02 -0700, "Ronin" another idiotic top-poster
<ronin@here&there.everywhere> wrote:
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>
>"+Bob+" <nomailplease@example.com> wrote in message
>news:lvh2455t8umnqtjp06ktb31c2gb7310mkc@4ax.com...<!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro-->
>> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:51:40 -0700, "Ronin"
>> <ronin@here&there.everywhere> wrote:
>><!--coloro:darkred--><span style="color:darkred <!--/coloro-->
>>>Simple, two-part question: Why should I install IE8 on my Vista Ultimate
>>>(x32), and why should I not install IE8?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
>>
>> Sure, if you like bugs and incompatibility install it. (Not that IE7
>> is exactly bug free, but at least it didn't have the compatibility
>> issue. <!--colorc--><!--/colorc--><!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
>I knew I'd get at least one of these. All opinion, with next to zero
>information.
><!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

[toppost corrected]

Google "IE8 compatibility", numb nuts. Or is that too hard for you to
figure out?

HAND

 

The Answer Is Yes, Go Ahead And Install IE8, I Have Absolutely No Problems
At All With The 32 Bit Windows XP Version Of IE 8 Inside My Windows XP
Virtual Machine Running On top Of Windows 7 RC Build 6.1.7100.

"Ronin" <ronin@here&there.everywhere> wrote in message
news:e94LVO48JHA.2120@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> Simple, two-part question: Why should I install IE8 on my Vista Ultimate
> (x32), and why should I not install IE8?
>
> --
> Ronin
>
> <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

Thanks! Though I have to point out that you should *never* consider an
"uninstall" to be a total removal. In fact, I'd say that 99% of such
uninstall operations leave all kinds of crap behind, some of it is garbage,
some of it is left behind in hopes that the app will be reinstalled and that
the owner will want all this stuff saved. There are also botched uninstalls,
which result in all kinds of possible issues and making life interesting for
registry divers. My experience when uninstalling MS apps is that they fall
into the "all of the above" category, in spades.
--
Ronin

"mopar" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
news:c99f2b5886c6805557f2a8bc161477ab@nntp-gateway.com...<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
>
> I'm using IE8 on my Vista Home Premium 32 without any trouble.
> It's more secure than IE7.
> I think maybe a little faster
> Personally I like it better than FF.
>
> You can always give it a try for your self and if you don't like remove
> it.
> That's the only way you will know for sure.
>
>
> --
> mopar <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

Hello!

Of course "to IE8". BUT, there's one new important feature: IE8 is by default working
with at least two iexplore.exe processes. You can change this behaviour by setting
TabProcGrowth to 0 in registry:


For example, older versions of the Visual Studio Debugger get confused:

"If you run into the same problem on Vista or newer, you will also need to turn off protected mode."

BTW, IE7Pro also has problems with IE8:


Regards, Roman


"Ronin" <ronin@here&there.everywhere> wrote in message news:e94LVO48JHA.2120@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> Simple, two-part question: Why should I install IE8 on my Vista Ultimate <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->