Browsers: Should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8?
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by may02sh - 7/11/09 1:24 AM In reply to: Should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
yes
Watch out for Problems with IE8
by waytron - 7/11/09 1:52 AM In reply to: Should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have to agree with many here that upgrading to Internet Explorer 7 is a no brainer and should be done without Hesitation. IE8 is a different story, I don't recall the last time I had seen so many problems with a Windows update. IE 8 can be a nightmare especially on Windows XP. I have even seen problems with upgrading to IE8 on a fresh install of Windows XP SP3 several times now. But if you decide to go forward, make sure your computer is clean and clear of all viruses and spyware and uninstall all Browser Add-ons before upgrading.
yes u should upgrade
by torticollis - 7/11/09 4:02 AM In reply to: Should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
my understanding is IE-6 is no longer supported
i have IE-8 and very few errors -lot of bugs fixed since it come out-& a lot more security
you have more pc than i have to handle it -i have gx-240 with about
20 gig HDD and 1.2 gig processor and about 348 MB of ram works good
but slow -it gets there
Should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8?
by Vanillaman - 7/11/09 4:16 AM In reply to: Should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Go straight to Internet Explorer 8, but whatever you do, "stay well clear of Mozilla Firefox and avoid all the hype like a plague". IE is now much faster and won't freeze, crash, shut down or just be downright cripplingly as slow as Firefox. As I've been involved with everything IT since 1993, everything about Firefox is false and fake, even its so-called support. I've been testing it for over a year now. Best stay with what you know, so go with IE8.
Huh?
by nonagon1 - 7/11/09 11:54 AM In reply to: Should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8? by VanillamanVanillaman, I agree IE8 is a good upgrade. However, I take exception to your weird assertion that Firefox is slow or unstable. Firefox is not "cripplingly slow" or unstable unless your computer is.
Why would you ask the original poster to keep a blind eye to the facts (that Firefox is an excellent alternative to IE) and don't even want him to at least try it for himself to make his own decision?
I think the majority of people on this board would agree Firefox is better...at least worth trying.
I went from IE 6 to IE 8.
by lvincent45 - 7/11/09 5:24 AM In reply to: Should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
When IE 7 was first introduced I did the upgrade from IE 6 to IE 7. However, shortly after that I noticerd that my HP scanner and HP printer and Logiteck web cam didn't work. After checking with the manufacturers of these items I was told that these products were not upgraded to work with IE 7. Hp finally did the upgrade for the scanner but not the printer and the web cam was useless now. I removed IE 7 and put IE 6 back on.
After reading Ed Botts article a few weeks ago on IE 8 I installed IE 8. The only problem I see right now is that it is a lot slower than IE 6 was and several web sites were giving IE 8 problems but the browser did a "self repair" on each site and now everything appears to work okay.
Internet Explorer 8 + Autodesk
by kriswa - 7/11/09 6:27 AM In reply to: Should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
for anyone who uses Autodesk products -- you should block this Windows Update and/or rollback the update if it's already on your system. version 8 of Internet Explorer causes widespread instability, random freezing and crashing in the 2010 release of most of the Autodesk products.
this is a widely documented issue on many Autodesk user forums, and may be addressed in a future service pack either for IE8 or from Autodesk -- but consider yourself forewarned if you start losing data on your work computer and your employer reprimands you.
note that it may also affect other software, but Autodesk has recently worked to integrate their suites into the Windows/IE/etc core for the shared update/notification/licensing features, which cause frequent problems.
it doesn't matter if you are actively using IE8 as your default browser, IE8 only needs to be installed to cause these issues.
it goes without saying, if you have any need to update your browser, there is no reason not to use Firefox 3.5, which offers almost every feature that IE8 does, and many more.
IE7 - yes; IE8 - too slow
by andrewk8 - 7/11/09 6:32 AM In reply to: Should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I upgraded from IE6 to IE7 quite a while ago and have been very happy w/ IE7. When IE8 came out, I upgraded and hated it. On my computer, IE8 was much slower than IE7. I used IE8 for about a week, then uninstalled it, going back to IE7.
I have an older computer - 2.8GHz Pentium 4, 1GB RAM, NVidia GeForce FX 5500 w/ 256MB, Windows XP - upper-middle range computer 5 years ago, but showing its age.
IE8 may provide some benefits, but only consider upgrading if your computer has a dual core processor. Otherwise, stick w/ IE
Explorer 7 not 8
by Splunge4me2 - 7/11/09 7:33 AM In reply to: Should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My husband updates & uploads (using FTP/Filezilla Client) his very simple website designed in Word using Html. He has been doing this for easily 10 years now. When I upgraded from IE7 to 8 he lost the ability to make changes to the his webpages - the code and text would show but you couldn't get an active cursor, or even highlight and delete. We were locked out. So I rolled back to IE7 and will probably download Firefox at this point.
Upgrade to IE7 or IE 8? Yes and No.
by TJJ - 7/11/09 8:19 AM In reply to: Should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Upgrading to IE 7 is a no brainer as it is a mature product and the bugs and problems have been worked out.
In the case of IE8, my recommendation is a maybe primarily driven by the age of you equipment. In my home and office I generally run older equipment because I don’t need the bells and whistles afforded by new systems although increased speed is always welcomed. That said, where my newer machines, less than two years old took the IE 8 installation with no problem, my older machines have been problematic at best, locking up or not performing as advertised. With each new release of IE8, the performance of IE8 appears to improve but we are not there yet.
In summary make the change to IE7 but if your equipment is older, hold off on IE 8 for a few more months till it is further refined.
You should really install Firefox 3.5!!!!
by gaby2300 - 7/11/09 9:45 AM In reply to: Should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Firefox 3.5 is MUCH faster than IE 8, Chrome and all the rest.
It's easily customizable with thousands of extensions and add ons so you can add what ever feature you've always dreamed about for a browser and you'll never get with IE 8.
Should you want to try it, the link is below and you can choose your OS:
http://stage.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-firefox-3.5.x/
Enjoy!!!
Just a word of advice
by cody9717 - 7/11/09 10:49 AM In reply to: Should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
As the only computer repair person in a small rural town I have seen one Major flaw with IE7 and that is :
It refuses to work in an AVG Antivirus environment without constantly having to screw with it !
Other than that , it's great !
Upgrading from IE6
by grannylee - 7/11/09 11:13 AM In reply to: Should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I cannot afford MS excessive price to upgrade from MS Windows 2000 Pro and the last time I researched, I could not use IE7 on this windows program. Anyone know of a good free OS to replace MS Windows 2000 Pro? Thank you, grannylee
Choices
by over_the_hill - 7/11/09 1:50 PM In reply to: Should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have tried pretty much all of the browsers over time, Netscape, IE, Opera, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. First let's say I would not even consider IE 8 at this time. Let someone else waste their time figuring out how it needs to be fixed.
I have IE 7 installed on three separate computers, 1 with XP SP2, 1 with XP SP3 and one with Vista, and each have Firefox 3.5 and Chrome 2.0. I have found something interesting, IE7 broke on each one. By broke, I mean there were websites that I could not get to work correctly on IE7. These were important websites that we used on a daily basis on each of the three PCs. I switched to Chrome almost on the daily it became available on all three PCs and the problems went away. For now, I am sticking with Chrome.
Firefox 3.5 seems to have a memory leak on XP SP2 so it can only stay up on my PC for an hour before it consumes between 60% and 75% of the PCs memory. It doesn't seem to have that issue on XP SP3 or the Vista machine.
Neither
by MaverickMitchell - 7/11/09 2:27 PM In reply to: Should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Neither. Go Mozilla Firefox. I have used IE7 with all updates. I can't believe I used IE7 for so long with the frequent crashes I experienced! Finally I went with Mozilla Firefox browser and I LOVE IT !!! No joke! Mozilla also of course has a lot of other awesome features that IE does not have, like when I save an image to a folder, then I download a video, the video saves to that same folder, whereas IE would not do that. And that's just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how impressed I am. I am definately a Mozilla fan now.
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