"Do I REALLY need to download IE8?" Topic

Plain and simple. What will I lose and what will I gain from installing Internet Explorer 8 onto my Microsoft Vista computer?

Thank you.

I didn't do it on mine or my wife's computer.

I don't like to tempt fate……

Did on both my work PC and home PC, no problems, not much that changed really other than some menus.

It is the next best thing to sliced bread.
Well, maybe un-leavened bread.
Well, maybe a day-old bisquet.

It works fine on my computer.
But when I installed it all my favorites were lost.
So, create a back-up file first.

no problems here. It has a compatibility mode if you mess up a few websites.
Id still like to see a back button in the lower right hand side since thats where you end up if you scroll down a page.

It works, but I will not swtich back from firefox.

Oh, and as usual there are a few dumb microsoft tricks that only work on their broswers; but unless you work for a company that sold its soul to M$ I would not worry about them,

What will I lose and what will I gain from installing Internet Explorer 8 onto my Microsoft Vista computer?

Some people have reported problems viewing TMP using IE8, but I haven't been able to get specific-enough bug reports to look into it. Switching to compatibility mode should theoretically solve any problems.

I tried it for a few days. Facebook apps locked it up repeatedly.

I have actually had a great experience on TMP using IE8

Just did it on my computer. The only difference I've noticed is that it has put black boxes around all the comments on TMP! Bit irritating actually.

Otherwise, I haven't lost anything, but I have gained an extra menu bar (of useless stuff) along the top that I'll have to figure out how to remove.

How do I go back?

I didn't notice any difference. I've been using it off-and-on since the beta.

Works fine for me. I was so pleased to get rid of Firefox which was opening sllooooowwww, no matter what I tried. IE8 has been going like a dream, so far … and the transfer of favourites etc worked without problems.

Always use Firefox, but keep IE8 for those apps that must have it.

IE8 works well on the laptop and the desktop here at
home…

Oh, and these are NON-Vista machines (XP Home on each)

I've gone to Google Chrome and quite like it.

I get the black box thing around messages on TMP and a compatibility message when I log onto Yahoo [but it seems to correct this itself]…otherwise fine on a Vista machine.

I never updated to 7, and in the last week since 8 hit I'm seeing a lot of "your browser is obsolete" messages. I'm resisting so far.

Firefox slow?? Have you tried 3.5, really fast, even on opening big (30MB) files.

IE8 yahoo version continually closed because of some facebook apps and bizarelly the BTYahoo mail page!

Once I had fiddled with some 'add ons' it has been fine – not much difference really apart from the 'inprivate' viewing stuff I will probably never use.

Yep, I tried upgrading to the latest Firefox in a vain attempt to get the mind-numbingly slow start-up sorted. Searching on the internet, this seems to be a common Firefox problem, but none of the many suggested solutions worked.

So when we had to install IE8 at work, I liked it so much that that night I dumped Firefox at home, and have been more than happy with IE8's performance since.

IE8 somehow self-installed iteself on the Home PC, and I have to say I quite like it!

They fixed my gripe with tabs, and bookmarks/history are remarkably more friiendly.
Last thing I need to checck is compatibility with actual "work" applications…