IE8 Beta Released.

[Maverick]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/getitnow.mspx

[Aηdy]

Lol IE7 didn't live too long. They've not changed the layout of the buttons so therefore it's still a load of crap! Avant browser is the way to go :) Microsoft suck at making new stuff lol.

[Maverick]

IE7 doesn't work well for me - it always crashes and my computer is fairly new. If I have over 2 tabs at one time it just closes without warning. If I use Internet Explorer I prefer to use IE6.

[Aηdy]

I'd never install IE7 on any computer with XP on it, unfortunately Vista comes with IE7 but I only use avant anyway..

[Patchy]

just seems exactly the same as ie7, but Im not gonna test it fully, I always prefer ff

[Whisper]

I'll install it because i have a fascination with anything new, shiny, flashy, soft, etc....
But I use the fox

[Aηdy]

I hate it when things are updated when there's no visual differences, it sucks lol.

I wonder when we'll see Windows Media Player 12.

[Patchy]

I hate it when things are updated when there's no visual differences, it sucks lol.

I wonder when we'll see Windows Media Player 12.

A extra visualization :P

[Aηdy]

That would be pushing it lol.

[Patchy]

Ah maybe just a different icon then :P

[Aηdy]

Still might be pushing their graphical skills to the limit lol.

[Patchy]

I just noticed

hotmail is not capable with ie8 (the envelops arent ment to look like that

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/9394/hahahahahaasq9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Maverick]

Remember its Beta so shouldn't expect it to work flawlessly.

[Patchy]

Yeah but I thought since msn hotmail is part of microsoft they might of got that right.

[Aηdy]

Yeah you'd think they'd make thier own bloody email client work before releasing even the beta lol

[Bobby]

It's messing up everything :P

I'm switching back...

[madness]

lolz micro$oft will have to pay me to use ie
firefox is the only well supported alternative

[Whisper]

Dude if u use msn as your main email then use Windows Live Mail

[Brandon639]

I'm going to just stick with Safari. Even on Windows, Safari is still the best. :P

[Gavin]

I'll have a look at this later,since i use ie7 at the moment

[Hippie]

Mozilla Firefox Ftw :D.


Hippie

[The Batman]

the fox is starting fock up if you ask me its taking alot of memory but now I use opera alittle

[Maverick]

A problem I have with Opera is that when I use it on VT some pages never update. Like if I view who's online it will still show the same one from a few minutes ago.

[The Batman]

with firefox it doesn't even load VT at all some times

[Patchy]

I've used Firefox for ages now and I've never had a major problem, a few websites arent designed for firefox so only then do I switch to IE

[Whisper]

the fox is starting fock up if you ask me its taking alot of memory but now I use opera alittle
You probly have to many add ons downloaded

[Blahages]

Look at the Appearance of IE3 or 4 VS IE6. They're pretty much the same, especially if you tell IE6 to use large buttons, with captions. There was no major change in the appearance until IE7.

Also, you can't expect radical changes between IE7 -> IE8. IE6 came out with XP in 2001. IE7 didn't come out until like last year. That's 6 years. IE8 is coming out a lot faster.

with firefox it doesn't even load VT at all some times

Works fine here, even with a lot of Extensions, on multiple computers.

I've used Firefox for ages now and I've never had a major problem, a few websites arent designed for firefox so only then do I switch to IE

Microsoft hasn't followed web standards, I don't think, ever for IE. They're finally making IE8 run in "Standards Mode" by default, so hopefully people won't have to keep writing separate lines of code for IE and seperate ones for FF/Safari/Etc

the fox is starting fock up if you ask me its taking alot of memory but now I use opera alittle

FF has always used a lot of RAM. Which, has never really been an issue for me, even with 1GB of RAM or less in a machine, even with 100 tabs open, I still haven't had real issues with the RAM usage.

FF 3 is supposedly fixing a lot of the RAM usage.

[Gavin]

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/9929/49589025uo3.png (http://imageshack.us)

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/5106/60903602zw2.png (http://imageshack.us)

[Techno Monster]

I am not gonna try this out either...

[Falk 'Ace' Flyer]

Boo Fx! I think I may switch to Opera, because it's more secure than anything else. The only problem I have with IE7 is that certain random pages don't load (they do on Fx) and I have yet to find a fix. Hopefully IE8 IS that fix.