Should I Install Internet Explorer 8?

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I agree with Leo. Wait!

I must of course point out that there are alternatives to IE (any version).

I do webprogramming for a living and from experience I can tell you that IE, in general, is slow compared to, for instance firefox.

There's a lot of reading material about this online, so I won't go too much into detail, but unless you need specific content that will only work with IE (for instance the windowsupdate functionality on the microsoft website, certain online virusscanner tools, etc.), you would be better off installing one of these alternatives.

Personally I only use IE to make sure the stuff I write will work with it.

For everything else I use firefox.
Makes for a much more pleasant browsing experience.

my two cents ;-)

So if someone has installed IE8 without doing a backup first, is there a way of removing it and restoring PC to original state?

I installed IE8 when it first released. I have had no issues with it, nothing has "broken". Speed is good and I like some of the new features, my favorite being able to select text, right click and search.

I installed IE8 as well and have had know problems of course i don't use it much lol.

A good friend of mine who is also one of your subscribers knew that I had recently installed Internet Explorer 8 and that all kinds of things happened afterwards so she sent me the link where you were talking about this subject. Upon installation of IE8, my computer slowed to a crawl so after a few days, I uninstalled IE 8 and now many of my programs won't work without all these different windows popping up and things trying to install. It's maddening! We ran all sorts of diagnostics on the computer afterwards and found 1500 problems that can't be fixed. The computer was working fine before that so I should have used the philosophy "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" I have ended up having to order a new computer. I wouldn't recommend IE 8 to anyone!

I foolishly downloaded IE8 - and then it would not open at all. It took some doing to get my computer back to IE6 - and then upgrade back to IE7. I now use Google Chrome. All I really want is a browser that is fairly safe and does not clog my system. Asking a lot right?

I installed IE8 and am very satisfied with it. It causes no problems at all. I consider now IE8 as good as Firefox 3. I returned to IE8 because most vendors on the Internet require me to have it.

I installed IE8 beta a couple of months ago and it broke something. Unlike IE7, IE8 cannot be uninstalled if you have installed SP3. Uninstalling SP3 was non-trivial. then I uninstalled IE8, then reapplied SP3, then reapplied all security patches released since last spring. Since I only use IE for Windows maintenance, I will stick with IE7.

I have no problems with IE8 and it looks good and feels good

I installed IE8 on Vista on a 32 & 64 bit machine and on an XP machine and am very sorry I did. All 3 versions cannot display a second page either within the home page or another one. Get "An unexplained error was encountered" and IE8 cycles back to the previous page. Its useless!

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