Whatever you do, make sure you do not download Internet Explorer 8.
The latest version of Exploder is complete, utter garbage.
It can't do things that probably even the first version could do. Like paste text into a field on Blogger.
And IE8 will rearrange your favorites list. All the time you spent arranging you favorites list, down the drain.
The simplest things in the world for a browser to do, it can't do.
You may have no choice but to download IE8 though, because IE7 forced me to. It didn't tell me it was downloading it, and then it installed it without asking. And it's impossible to go back to IE7, because once you download IE8, it skeeps that it can't reinstall IE7 because you have a newer, more "advanced" Exploder installed.
Does anyone know when IE9 comes out?
Saturday, July 4, 2009
IE8 = garbage
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You've been told many, many times not to use Internet Explorer.
ReplyDeleteYeah Firefox is far better. Firefox = progressive populist browser. IE = corporate fascist browser.
ReplyDeleteFirefox is better, but a lot of workplaces only allow IE.
ReplyDeleteI wonder though how much business has been lost because of IE being so SSSSLLLLLOOOOOOOWWWWWW
I agree that IE8 is garbage in the sense it now literally often displays garbage for some sites that used to display fine (even in IE8), when clicked on in Google search. Also it has problems displaying some Wikipedia pages.
ReplyDeleteMicrosoft must be aware of this because this morning in desperation I searched on "uninstall Internet Explorer 8" and found a Microsoft site "How do I uninstall or remove Internet Explorer 8?" that gives instructions how to do it and says that IE7 will be automatically reinstalled with all the old settings.
Uninstalling it via Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs did not work but there is an alternative CMD.EXE method that did.
After restarting IE7 came back and works fine.
However immediately Microsoft update tried to install Internet Explorer 8 again and I said no. So if you have automatic updates it might be a good idea to change it to "Notify me but don't automatically download or install them" as I now have.