MS Explorer 8

Natural Elements · 03-20-2009, 11:32 AM

Hello,

I just installed MS Explorer 8, and I can tell you that I am impressed by the speed and new tools.

I am glad that Microsoft made a good version of this brower.

Let see what the others said about it.

herman333 · 03-22-2009, 08:01 PM

i havent had a chance to download it but let me do it right now and ill be back

**~kev~** · 03-22-2009, 08:26 PM

Once you go firefox, you will never go back.

I see no reason to switch back to IE x. Regardless of how good its "supposed" to be, I doubt I will ever use ie again. There are a few websites for my real life job that will not work with firefox. But hopefully the programmers will fix that problem.

Natural Elements · 03-23-2009, 08:58 PM

Kev, I've got Firefox too, but my visitors use mainly IE and FF represent 5% only !

Hey guys no offense but you can use whatever brower you like

I like IE8 very much ;-)

t-wins · 04-04-2009, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Natural Elements

Kev, I've got Firefox too, but my visitors use mainly IE and FF represent 5% only !

Hey guys no offense but you can use whatever brower you like

I like IE8 very much ;-)

The number seems to vary so widely from site to site. Some sites have over 40% users who use Firefox.

Natural Elements · 04-09-2009, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by t-wins

The number seems to vary so widely from site to site. Some sites have over 40% users who use Firefox.

I agree, particularely if the sites are targeting webmasters, sure they will use FF.

**ScriptMan** · 04-09-2009, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by t-wins

The number seems to vary so widely from site to site. Some sites have over 40% users who use Firefox.

Gosh! How true that is. In reviewing some stats earlier this evening I found that 58% of the visitors used FF at one site...............

and now hold on to your hats....................

Almost 60% at another site still use IE6! IE5 has some %

and the total IE is at 85%. FF only gets 3% with all the others sharing the rest.

These stats blew me away.

proseef · 03-30-2009, 12:44 AM

hehe, good, if you want to download the MS IE 8 directly, you can go to softdownsky.com

bbonline · 04-01-2009, 06:02 PM

still using firefox..im still waiting for feedbacks...

Andre Ward · 04-03-2009, 04:03 AM

Bah, I'm keeping Firefox. IE8 is pretty good and all but, I need addons.

Only other browser I'm comfortable using is Google Chrome

rypher21 · 04-07-2009, 02:36 AM

i still prefer firefox....

corneo · 04-08-2009, 02:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Natural Elements

Hello,

I can tell you that I am impressed by the speed and new tools.

I almost started blocking people from my site because in (1) one day 6 members were looking at 40,000 pages each and using over 1 Gb of bandwidth.

After looking in to the problem I found out the IE 8 has a "browser enhancer" which makes people think they are getting faster browsing or better speeds.

The truth is: that IE 8 is looking at every page a site has when the person goes to the site which makes you think you have hackers on your site.
So when the person using IE 8 goes to another page it pops up because it's in there cache files already.

This problem/matter is causing higher than normal bandwidth useage for the server and burns ups space on a person computer.

Until IE 8 is fixed I'm looking in to a way to block IE 8 browser to my site.

**Cricket** · 04-09-2009, 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by corneo

I almost started blocking people from my site because in (1) one day 6 members were looking at 40,000 pages each and using over 1 Gb of bandwidth.

After looking in to the problem I found out the IE 8 has a "browser enhancer" which makes people think they are getting faster browsing or better speeds.

The truth is: that IE 8 is looking at every page a site has when the person goes to the site which makes you think you have hackers on your site.
So when the person using IE 8 goes to another page it pops up because it's in there cache files already.

This problem/matter is causing higher than normal bandwidth useage for the server and burns ups space on a person computer.

Until IE 8 is fixed I'm looking in to a way to block IE 8 browser to my site.

Can you truly afford to lose what may be a very large percentage of your users over the coming year? Heck, even losing 5% of your users is way too big of a percentage! Consider fixing the server issue or find a way not to cache your pages. I would definitely investigate every option before I would ever consider blocking a single user.

Natural Elements · 04-09-2009, 05:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by corneo

I almost started blocking people from my site because in (1) one day 6 members were looking at 40,000 pages each and using over 1 Gb of bandwidth.

After looking in to the problem I found out the IE 8 has a "browser enhancer" which makes people think they are getting faster browsing or better speeds.

The truth is: that IE 8 is looking at every page a site has when the person goes to the site which makes you think you have hackers on your site.
So when the person using IE 8 goes to another page it pops up because it's in there cache files already.

This problem/matter is causing higher than normal bandwidth useage for the server and burns ups space on a person computer.

Until IE 8 is fixed I'm looking in to a way to block IE 8 browser to my site.

I don't know about this. All I can say it works fine, and I have never had this problem.

entrabnetworks · 04-09-2009, 02:22 AM

It is just OK. i think fire fox is best till now

**Cricket** · 04-09-2009, 04:04 PM

FWIW I am not personally impressed with IE8 and for the first time, IE is no longer my default browser.
I use both FF and Chrome.

Natural Elements · 04-09-2009, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Cricket

FWIW I am not personally impressed with IE8 and for the first time, IE is no longer my default browser.
I use both FF and Chrome.

The best browser is FF, but IE8 is pretty good.

88% of my visitors are using IE.

The rule of thumb is to make your site compatible as much as you can with all browsers.

fireboat786 · 04-09-2009, 05:48 PM

Regarding the IE8 caching feature, does it cause inaccurate statistics to be gathered from either AWStats or Analytics?

**3ncryptabl3_lick** · 04-09-2009, 08:06 PM

I gave it a whirl and I was quickly dissapointed. I mean I love IE, but the loadtime was on par with FF. Compared to IE7, which just pops up and loads the page almost instantly, IE8 was taking upwards af 10-20 second to load a page or picture. Which, in surf-time, is a long time. So I uninstalled it.