Comments on: Is It Safe To Use An Older Web Browser?

By: Doreen

Doreen — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:58:35 +0000

I gave IE 8 a try but after repeated problems where I was unable to login to my bank’s web site and a few other similar login issues on other sites I uninstalled it and will stick with IE7 until I’m assured it will work consistently and properly. One thing I really disliked is that IE 8 doesn’t allow for personalized favs and I was so used to that feature in IE 7 it bothered the heck out of me. However, since uninstalling 8 and reverting to 7 the personalized favs is no longer working! Oh well, at least I can do my online banking.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:45:48 +0000

After my above-mentioned episode with IE8, I had to uninstall it. The crashes kept coming and I couldn’t find a fix (tried 3 or 4 things; nothing worked). I wasn’t real happy with the speed of IE8 on my machine either. Everyone seems to be saying how much faster it is than IE7. Well, for me, it’s slower. Takes a good 10 seconds longer for it to open than IE7 does. Maybe it’s built for the newer processors or something, as my machine is getting fairly old (Athlon XP 1600+), so I’m not going to outrightly say the speed problem is IE8′s fault. The crashes however were another story. If there’s no fix, I’ll just stick with IE7 until this machine dies.

By: Sharron Field

Sharron Field — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:20:41 +0000

K-Meleon is a good browser; but it needs significant development to be up with IE8 or Firefox.

By: Reeko

Reeko — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:54:22 +0000

Use K-Meleon is all I have to say

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:41:52 +0000

I don’t know whether this is actually an IE8 problem or a compatibility problem with Maxthon (Maxthon uses the IE core files, for those that aren’t aware). Anyway, after installing IE8, Maxthon crashed twice on me last night, saying it had an error and needed to close. The error was with a file called urlmon.dll. I searched for an answer and found several references to this same problem back when IE8 was still in the beta stages, so I’m thinking it’s just IE8′s problem and not Maxthon. One “fix” said to clear the cache, which I did, and so far (knock on wood) I haven’t had it crash again. Guess we’ll see how long that lasts.

By: SupaChalupa

SupaChalupa — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:02:45 +0000

When I downloaded IE8 it caused all my programs to do a funny “jerk jerk jerk” thing down to the bottom of the screen as they closed. When I uninstalled IE8 it was back to normal again. FF3 FTW.

By: Rich Menga

Rich Menga — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:55:45 +0000

I won’t switch off FF or Seamonkey either, but when I have to use IE, 8 is much better than 7.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:43:57 +0000

I recently downloaded IE8, and while I found it much better than IE7, I had some trouble logging into espn.com and occasional trouble logging into facebook. Other than that, it is a great browser. I still prefer Mozilla and Chrome, but IE is definitely up there

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:44:04 +0000

intalled IE8 , promptly hosed my IE cannot get any of it to load, its not quite ready for primetime, to even use IE at this point i had to go into the IE folder and create a new shortcut, the load everything thru that one while it is open, and , no, it will not un-install , have tried all the steps, only option is to do an xp repair , no time for that at the moment tho. Like I said IE8 IS NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME, if you are running IE7 , keep it no reason to upgrade at this point

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:37:01 +0000

I uninstalled IE8 because it wouldn’t allow me to type anything in any forms… not even in the Ctrl-F find box! (Win XP)