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Windows 7: internet explorer 8 sucks. Can it be replaced?

Nomanor

Nomanor

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I just installed Windows 7, it's great, but the IE8 sucks major ass.

Is there a way to go back to IE7 ?
 
Originally posted by: Nomanor
I just installed Windows 7, it's great, but the IE8 sucks major ass.

Is there a way to go back to IE7 ?
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If you installed it in Vista and XP, then just go to add/remove programs and uninstall it.

You need to give IE8 a little more time. It is mountains better than IE7, faster at rendering, standards complaint and has a ton of new features, if you take the time to explore, you will find valuable. (Inprivate Browsing or porn mode as it more commonly called is a great new feature.)

If you still don't like it after a few weeks worth of usage, go to getfirefox.com and give firefox a try instead.
 
Yeah i have FF but I still miss some IE features.

I totally don't want to use IE8, it's buggy as hell.


And no, I didnt install it in XP/Vista. I did a clean Windows 7 install and IE8 was included with it.
 
Windows 7 is still pre-release software so it is going to be buggy at times. IE8 is a part of Windows 7 and you can not replace it with a earlier version of IE.
 
Originally posted by: Nomanor
Yeah i have FF but I still miss some IE features.

I totally don't want to use IE8, it's buggy as hell.


And no, I didnt install it in XP/Vista. I did a clean Windows 7 install and IE8 was included with it.
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What bugs are you seeing?
 
Originally posted by: MrChad
Originally posted by: Nomanor
Yeah i have FF but I still miss some IE features.

I totally don't want to use IE8, it's buggy as hell.


And no, I didnt install it in XP/Vista. I did a clean Windows 7 install and IE8 was included with it.
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What bugs are you seeing?
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I'm wondering too myself?
IE8 is way better than IE7 in almost anyway.
 
Originally posted by: California Roll
Agreeing with what everyone else said. IE8 is better than IE7 in almost every way.

With that said, I use Firefox 99% of the time.
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It sounds almost funny.
I second.
 
I played around with IE8 for a day after I installed Win7. It's very, very good to be honest. If you were an IE7 user I could see how getting used to a "new" browser might be a bit off putting. It's a bit different from IE7. Just play with it till you get used to it. I don't think it's buggy by any means, just different.

I'm used to Firefox so I stick with that. On the handful of sites that still have problems with FF, I use IE8. There really is no reason to go back to IE7 or to not upgrade to IE8.
 
IE8 is laggy in my experience. I haven't had any outright failures, but the performance is sub par. It doesn't really matter, as I only use it on MS sites, otherwise it's Firefox.
 
IE8 is so much slower for me under Win7 RC it ain't funny. And when a webpage is zoomed in (I use 135% most of the time, 24" LCD from around 1m), scrolling under IE8 is physically painful, it's that slow 😛 Everything is zippy and instant under Firefox. I just wish Firefox would have that neat "preview each tab" feature when you mouse over the task bar icon - that is very very helpful, looks cool and I miss it the most. And that's it. Win7 RC here btw.
 
- IE8 seems slow
- IE8 is not compatable with a lot of websites (scripting/coding issues i guess)
- IE8 doesn't have a LINKS feature anymore (where I used to place my most important links for quick access)
 
I was going to start another thread, but found this one convenient:

There are some minor, even improbable reasons, that I would have difficulties with my web-connection (yesterday and today). Certainly, the ISP has occasional "maintenance," and there are troubles "in my area" with connections -- occasionally -- very, very occasionally.

It seems that the slowdowns and hangups began occurring after I updated to Internet Explorer 8. I've seen some complaints by others, but didn't read them, thinking that it was "working fine" for me.

Anybody else? I heard that Microsoft laid off their "Flight Simulator" staff. I'm wondering if they shorted their Internet Explorer development team, too. . . .

Some comments here -- that it's "laggy," "seems slow" -- fit the profile that I'd describe, but almost as an understatement. It seems MORE than laggy, and MORE than just "slow."

I've got it running under XP MCE 2005 (32-bit), and IE 7 was working just fine before I . . . .thoughtlessly . . . took this plunge.

EDIT: And BE-LEEEVE ME! It was such a PAIN just to get my message to post here!
 
Originally posted by: BonzaiDuck

EDIT: And BE-LEEEVE ME! It was such a PAIN just to get my message to post here!
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There's something wrong other than IE8. All the tests I've seen show that IE8 is comparable with FF in speed of loading pages. IE8 tends to win on more sites in fact.

I just fired up IE8 to check how it's loading pages in this forum and it's fine... just as fast as FF. That's under Vista-32.
 
It may be my ISP. I had trouble with e-mail today, then trouble with internet access -- sluggishness. Now, things seem to be smoother -- more normal.

I also had plugged into my LAN a Windows 7 install that's using my DHCP-server feature of my router for an IP address. It adds those additional TCP/IP drivers that I've avoided with XP. I can't be sure this isn't something related to that. I just don't know at the moment.
 
It may be my ISP. I had trouble with e-mail today, then trouble with internet access -- sluggishness. Now, things seem to be smoother -- more normal.

I also had plugged into my LAN a Windows 7 install that's using my DHCP-server feature of my router for an IP address. It adds those additional TCP/IP drivers that I've avoided with XP. I can't be sure this isn't something related to that. I just don't know at the moment.

I've had this network setup for years, and can always tell when the problem source is the ISP. Changing browsers has added a loose joint of confusion for the moment. . . .
 
It may be my ISP. I had trouble with e-mail today, then trouble with internet access -- sluggishness. Now, things seem to be smoother -- more normal.

I also had plugged into my LAN a Windows 7 install that's using my DHCP-server feature of my router for an IP address. It adds those additional TCP/IP drivers that I've avoided with XP. I can't be sure this isn't something related to that. I just don't know at the moment.

I've had this network setup for years, and can always tell when the problem source is the ISP. Changing browsers has added a loose joint of confusion for the moment. . . .
 
Originally posted by: Nomanor
I totally don't want to use IE8, it's buggy as hell...
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Patooey! I spit on IE8... 😀

I installed IE8 beta on my Vista lappy, about 6 months ago - and it was horrible! I left it on my machine, because I don't use IE anyway (except for WU) but I felt bad that it was sitting there in the background like a ticking time-bomb.

As fate would have it, there was a major security update to Vista a couple of months later, and Windows gave me a warning that I couldn't run the update unless I un-installed IE8 beta first, sooo... that's what I did. I gleefully un-installed IE8, with a sigh of relief, and never looked back, until...

Last month (May), a friend of mine was having problems with her high-dollar, 64-bit Vista, HP lappy. She couldn't connect into any secure links (HTTPS, SFTP, SSH, et cetera) nor log into anything that required a username & password (Email, IM, blogs, forums, whatever). Nobody could figure out what the problem was, let alone the cure. Google Search offered up no clues either. She asked me if I would look at it. Turned out to be some remnants of the Norton AV crapware that HP had pre-loaded on her machine. It also had numerous trojans, pups, spyware, adware, et cetera, that needed to be removed, but Norton was the major culp!

Anyway, after I got rid of the Norton AV cruft (was like removing a damn virus) and I cleaned and disinfected her lappy, I performed all the MS updates including IE8 - figured they had the IE8 bugs sorted out by now. WRONG!!!

OMG, after I installed IE8, her 64-bit lappy was crawling. I thought it was my imagination, at first - seeing as how I just worked on her lappy for 14 hours straight - and I was a little laggy myself. 🙂

After I got some sleep, and booted up her lappy in the morn, it was obvious something was seriously wrong, so I rolled back the IE8 install, and her lappy immediately started to fly!

As an aside, I just updated my own Vista lappy install to SP2 - worked great - but, my biggest fear was that SP2 might install IE8 on my lappy (again). Luckily, SP2 left IE7 intact. Whew!

So, I feel your pain! And, I'll tell you what...

I'm not that hot on 7 anyway. If you're forced to run IE8, that'll be a deal-breaker for me... :|

Thanks for starting this thread - it's the first I've heard of this - plus it's nice to know that my IE8 problems are a 'shared' experience! :beer:
 
Ya know, I've got NO issues with IE8 being "slow" or "laggy" on TWO Windows 7 boxes (my main and laptop) one Vista Home Prem laptop and one XP HTPC.
 
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