june gloom on 19/3/2009 at 18:18
No.
thefonz on 19/3/2009 at 21:18
I use Chrome.
Your simple IE8 program has no relevance to me anymore.
Nameless Voice on 19/3/2009 at 21:34
Oh? Another couple of hours of hair-pulling for every website I try to make, to get it to work around IE8's bugs now, as well as IE7's and IE6's? :mad:
EZ-52 on 19/3/2009 at 21:37
I actually like it. Installation took about a minute, no errors and I like the slight visual changes to the tab bar.
A lot more options i've noticed, nice to see my website doesn't display correctly (never did in Firefox either), although pushing the compatibility button is quick and simple and fixed the problem. Guess this is to do with the improved compatibility.
Accelerators are pretty awesome - great intergration with Windows Live services, hopefully these could become more commonplace.
Haplo on 19/3/2009 at 21:48
Definitely an improvement, but I'll stick with Opera for now.
steo on 19/3/2009 at 23:11
Some of the features seem potentially interesting but I found it to be a bit slow and the two tabs that the setup wizard thingy opened were completely unresponsive for me, meaning I had to use task manager to close the browser. It didn't properly import stuff from firefox either, leaving me with that hideous msn.com homepage and while the accelerators might have been useful, right click stopped working and, to be honest, I'm not sure what I would have used them for anyway.
On the plus side, it follows the rules more closely than IE7, so it's less of a nightmare for web development, the testing of which was the only reason I downloaded it in the first place.
Chrome seems good at what it does, being fast and minimal, but I'm still sticking with Firefox until there's a pretty good reason not to - I know how it works and it's got all those nifty plugins and such.
I appreciate that Microsoft's finally doing something about it's previously god awful web browser, but what with it being Microsoft's and thus being inherently very annoying (at least by default), I'm not switching back any time soon - which I suspect is the case with the vast majority of non-IE browser users.
Tonamel on 20/3/2009 at 01:07
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
Oh? Another couple of hours of hair-pulling for every website I try to make, to get it to work around IE8's bugs now, as well as IE7's and IE6's? :mad:
It passes Acid2, so probably not.
Acid3 not so much, but that shouldn't affect anything unless you're doing lots of complicated AJAX scripting.
fett on 20/3/2009 at 01:15
Ooo! Ooo!! Does MS Messenger come free with it too? Will it still sit in my system tray and fag up my processor speed no matter how many times I shut the fucking thing off in msconfig? I hope they also kept those nifty little mini-books that pop up every time it blocks a pop up. Couldn't live without those! :nono:
Microwave Oven on 20/3/2009 at 02:09
I don't see myself going back to any flavor of IE anytime soon. IE6 drove me away with its horrible security flaws (oh how I just love having my system owned by just viewing a banner ad on a normally trusted site) and Firefox welcomed me into it's loving arms of tabbed browsing and plugins. Firefox will have to do something rather egregious to make me switch.
