Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1

thebigbluecan · 03-07-2008, 11:51 AM

Well I downloaded IE8 b1 to try it out at: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro.../getitnow.mspx And I don't like it... Mainly because i'm a Firefox user and FF3 b3 is nice so far. Anyway IE 8 seems to be a bit sluggish. You can try it out for yourself if you want. I uploaded some pics and when I uploaded one on photobucket the layout isn't quite right. I have come across some sites that don't look right but most seem ok. But I have to remember.. it's still in beta and I know theres going to be some problems. Heres some pics...

IE8 b3 Running

The Messed up HTML...

The new address bar.... (Not sure if IE7 did this)...

Well Try it out for yourselves if you want.

Glowing_The_Smurf · 03-07-2008, 12:15 PM

I will not be trying this. I hate IE. It sucks. I love the fox on fire

. It's fast much.

858 · 03-07-2008, 12:15 PM

I'll be trying it out.. I looked at the IE8 page and checked the system requirements and couldn't help but laugh at this:

Quote:

Memory:

Windows Vista - 512MB
Windows Vista Service Pack (SP1) - 512MB
Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) - 64 MB

Oh Vista, silly Vista. I mean, I'm sure most people have at least 1gb of RAM on their Vista rigs, even people who aren't too into computers.. but it's just so absurd that you need 8x more ram for the same program.

Burton560 · 03-07-2008, 12:18 PM

*hugs Firefox icon*

I will never never ever go back to internet explorer. no matter what they do to internet exploder, firefox is just way too damn good

thebigbluecan · 03-07-2008, 12:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 858

I'll be trying it out.. I looked at the IE8 page and checked the system requirements and couldn't help but laugh at this:
Oh Vista, silly Vista. I mean, I'm sure most people have at least 1gb of RAM on their Vista rigs, even people who aren't too into computers.. but it's just so absurd that you need 8x more ram for the same program.

Yea that is pretty funny. Firefox is the way to go!

**Grez** · 03-07-2008, 12:45 PM

Yeah, I may be a MS guy, but I like Firefox better as well. It's what I run at home on all of my machines. I only use IE at work.

That said, remember that this is a beta. One of the things that the product group is concentrating on is performance...IE7 is just too farging slow, and IE8, when it goes RTM, is supposed to be a lot faster. Also, they're supposed to be focusing on making sure that IE renders HTML (and anything else) the same way that other popular browsers do, which was yet another issue in IE6/7. When IE8 is done, it should be a lot better than the current gen of IE stuff. That said, Firefox may still be better, and chances are I'll still run FF on the home stuff, and IE8 on the work stuff.

858 · 03-07-2008, 01:13 PM

I discovered Acid Test a while back.
Decided to run IE8 against FF2. Results:

(In the shot is just Acidtest 3 and 2; they both passed 1 easily of course)
Then when I was about to upload that image, I get a popup saying:

There is a nice feature I noticed on IE8, "Webslices", which is essentially a combination of Bookmarks and RSS Feeds.

The icon will then become bolded if there is an update for that page.
You can then click that little arrow to see really quick what the updates are (Like a mini RSS feed window) without having to load up the page

They advertise how it can work together with Facebook to see all your friends' updates. I can't honestly say I care THAT much about my friend updates on Facebook.

I can't really see myself using this Webslice feature. It's a neat little toy but eh. I like to let all my feeds add up for a few days and then just spend a while reading them all. I'm not the kinda guy who needs minute-by-minute updates on celebz and my friends. On a little advertisement video, they showed the usage for eBay(it'll update you if an item gets new bids), and I guess that might the the only function I'd ever use... if I was an eBay person.

The main reason I'll never use IE8(nor IE7) is just how goofy it looks. The artwork to show the tabs is too bubbly and oversized for me, and there's no decent way to downsize the whole top section.

(That button I can't get rid of? "Emulate IE7".)

So there you have it, Xoxide. My strongly opinionated took-2-minutes-to-hate-ie8 review of absolutely every feature IE8 has to offer you. I guarantee it! *Goes back to hugging Firefox*

thebigbluecan · 03-07-2008, 01:44 PM

Yea I already uninstalled it. On Vista its treated as an update so i had to "uninstall the update" Took me a min to find it. Ill stick with my Firefox! Thanks for the more in depth review.

The Ebay thing there is a Firefox Version for that... IE must have got ideas from that? (I never tried it)
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/add-ons...=ebaycompanion

Canavi · 03-07-2008, 03:33 PM

I have no reason to switch from FF.