Internet Explorer 8

[surfbug]

I've 6 Internet Explorer , I'll update to Internet Explorer 8. Is it ok or no? Thanks

[photolady]

If you're running XP or win98, no, IE8 was built for Windows 7 and you probably will have problems with it. Stick with what you have or switch to a better browser like Opera. This is what I use and it's better than IE any versions.

[Ridgerunr]

I have to 'slightly' disagree. I'm running XP-Pro:sp3 and just tried IE8 a couple of weeks ago. I could care less for tabbed browsing,so I shut that off. I'm finding that more & more web sites are re-building to use 8 and for me,most sites load faster with it. You can also use the zoom feature to get a better fit for wide screen monitors. It automatically zoomed to 113% on my widescreen Samsung and it fits perfectly. If you have some older hardware, you may have problems. But the only gripe I have,is it won't recognize my toolbar wallpaper program,so I have to look at the ugly gray thing. 'Course it was written for IE5, so no surprise. Try it,if you don't like it,you can remove it from 'Add-Remove programs'...

[photolady]

Just so you know, the average user has problems with IE8 ridge. You're not the average user. I have removed it for them when it caused problems on the winxp machines. That is the only reason I posted what I did.

Myself, I use Opera because it does tabs. Btw, IE8 doesn't do tabs very well anyway. And there is no setting I can find to made it work like the tabs I have in Opera.

[Broni]

I agree with Photolady. Without any particular pattern, IE8 works fine for some XP users and it doesn't for others.

[HAN]

Sorry but I also have to 'slightly' disagree too for XP SP3. Unless I have specific warnings to not update to IE8 (such as we go to a govt website that specifically says to not use it yet), I always do so. I have had one issue (that I solved) and all the others have all gone well. So far, I'm over 2 dozen PCs.

IE8 is safer, does tabs right after a couple changes are made (at least compared to Firefox (sorry photolady!!)), and has a few other, useful new features. Its the first, best IE since IE5 that I would actually consider using...

[photolady]

I did say for the average user. Han you are not the average user.

[Broni]

You can't explain clearly enough to those "noobs" ....hehehehe

[Ridgerunr]

Ok,regardless,this isn't helping anyone. And I didn't mean to start a flame war or generate lowly answers.