IE 8 coming soon

aye-aye-Chris aye-aye-Chris

aye-aye-Chris

Famous Word Swap Guru
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Chief Chef said:

Yep !!

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Riddle me this batman:

I have popups turned off but a lot of sites have 'popupbehind' running and one click anywhere on their page and a quick flash as the popup appears and then goes behind your browser.

This is the browser page you see when you close your page and this one appears and you think "I don't remember opening this crap."

How do you stop this crap?
 
foxidrive foxidrive

foxidrive

Retired Admin
aye-aye-Chris said:
I have popups turned off but a lot of sites have 'popupbehind' running and one click anywhere on their page and a quick flash as the popup appears and then goes behind your browser.

This is the browser page you see when you close your page and this one appears and you think "I don't remember opening this crap."

How do you stop this crap?
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Don't go to that site again. :cool
 
misi misi

misi

Growing Little Guru
Installed IE8

There is no Password Manager,but Norton solved that problem:the Norton 360 has it now,working well so far.

phpBB3 forums: cannot edit my own posts or edit quotes.
No problem with phpBB2 and vBulletin.

Annoying:
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misi misi

misi

Growing Little Guru
Cannot PM on phpBB3 forums.
The error message is that something is wrong with the Google Toolbar.
 
misi misi

misi

Growing Little Guru
foxidrive said:
...interfering or incompatible.
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Downloaded the new beta5 toolbar:cannot install.
Downloaded and installed Version 3: still the same problems.
On a phpBB forum I have sent a PM : the addressee did not receive it,I DID!

Looks like I have to install IE7.
Until then have to use FF3.
 
misi misi

misi

Growing Little Guru
misi said:
The news is that I cannot uninstall IE8.
There is no such program. ??
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Huh? Update?

It is a Windows update. Had to uninstall the update... ??

Back to IE7 now.
Wonderful. Fast. No troubles with phpBB forums.
 
foxidrive foxidrive

foxidrive

Retired Admin
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/02/1418252

IE8 Beta 2 Fatter Than Firefox and XP

"Consuming twice as much RAM as Firefox and saturating the CPU with nearly six times as many execution threads, Microsoft's latest beta release of Internet Explorer 8 is in fact more demanding on your PC than Windows XP itself, research firm Devil Mountain Software found in performance tests. According to the firm, which operates a community-based testing network, IE8 Beta 2 consumed 380MB of RAM and spawned 171 concurrent threads during a multi-tab browsing test of popular Web destinations. InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy speculates that Microsoft may be designing IE8 for the multicore future. But until your machine sports four or eight discrete processing cores, IE8 will remain 'porcine,' Devil Mountain's Craig Barth says."
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Yay Firefox! :satisfied
 
misi misi

misi

Growing Little Guru
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10103871-56.html?tag=nl.e433



November 20, 2008 9:19 AM PST
Microsoft: IE 8 won't be done until 2009





Posted by Ina Fried
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Microsoft plans to offer one more public test version of Internet Explorer 8 before releasing the final version of the updated browser, the company said late Wednesday.
The next test, essentially a "release candidate" version will come in the first quarter of 2009. That means the final release won't hit Microsoft's initial goal of finishing the browser this year.
"Our next public release of IE (typically called a "release candidate") indicates the end of the beta period," general manager Dean Hachamovitch said in a blog posting. "We want the technical community of people and organizations interested in Web browsers to take this update as a strong signal that IE8 is effectively complete and done."
Microsoft first demonstrated the browser at the Mix conference in March. Among its improvements are malware protection, better standards support, and the ability to carve off a piece of a Web page, known as a Web slice. It also supports having private sessions that don't get logged in a browser's history.
The first beta version was released in March, with a second beta arriving over the summer.
Hachamovitch said that Web site developers should test their sites and report "any critical issues" to Microsoft.
"We will be very selective about what changes we make between the next update and final release," he wrote. "We will act on the most critical issues. We will be super clear about product changes we make between the update and the final release."
Hachamovitch also called on technical users to download the current beta 2 version and let Microsoft know how that goes.

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During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried has changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. These days, most of her attention is focused on Microsoft. E-mail Ina.
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Hmmm... beats several times,genders only once... :?
 
misi misi

misi

Growing Little Guru
RC1 is working well so far.
I have had problems with it while clicking on links in Yahoo.
Not anymore.
Only the password manager is missing from it.
One day they will wake up and implement it...
 
misi misi

misi

Growing Little Guru
The final release arrived.


LAS VEGAS--Having finished its latest browser, Microsoft on Thursday kicked off its campaign to get consumers to actually start using it.
After years of losing market share to Firefox and other rivals, Microsoft is hoping to convince people, many of whom use old versions of Internet Explorer, to give the company a new look.
Part of that marketing push is a light-hearted video on the history of the Internet that also shows off some of the new features of Internet Explorer 8, including its private browsing mode and so-called "accelerators" that let users take action without leaving the Web page they are on.
The video was shown prior to the browser's formal introduction at the Mix 09 show. Microsoft also released the final version of the browser for download on its Web site.
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okeedokee okeedokee

okeedokee

The Bastion of Belmont
I'd hold off for a while, things are starting to turn up

Leaking Cookies
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22099800-IE-8-Final-LEAKS-THIRD-PARTY-COOKIES

And there is an exploit already found in IE8
news.softpedia.com/news/IE8-Fire···83.shtml
“With a little tweaking, he ran a sleek exploit against IE8, defying Microsoft’s latest built in protection technologies- DEP (Data Execution Prevention) as well as ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization)...

arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/···test.ars
Contest sponsor TippingPoint called the exploit a "brilliant IE8 bug."

pcworld.com/article/161533/i···now.html
Some experts also say that Microsoft's clickjacking protection may give IE8 users a false sense of security.

trustedreviews.com/mobile-de···a-Tag/p1
As for performance, early reports are less encouraging with claims IE8 still remains significantly slower than the latest builds of Opera, Firefox, Chrome and Safari while its Acid3 scores are nothing to write home about.

Above copied from here http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22097028-
 
misi misi

misi

Growing Little Guru
okeedokee said:
And there is an exploit already found in IE8
news.softpedia.com/news/IE8-Fire···83.shtml
“With a little tweaking, he ran a sleek exploit against IE8, defying Microsoft’s latest built in protection technologies- DEP (Data Execution Prevention) as well as ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization)...
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Do I have to use FF or Opera for my daily prono?:tearful
 
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