Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is Good?
May 30, 2008 | Filed Under General, Questions, Thoughts
I’m really impressed with the performance of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, so impressed that I’m actually currently using this browser to type this entry. Browsing is smooth and fast, and other than some texts not displaying correctly in certain pages, there are no issue at all. I fixed the text display issue by “emulating” IE7 browser, basically to change IE8’s look to IE7’s.
I still can’t believe how fast the pages load. Compared to Firefox, I must say that some pages such as Facebook load much faster than my Firefox 3 Beta 5. And this is only IE8’s first beta.
Impressive. Do have a go with IE8 and tell me how did it go.
Ps. For the record, I’ll still stick with Firefox and use IE8 when it’s absolutely necessary.
UPDATE: I still think that tab loads much faster with Firefox, or perhaps it’s just my laptop’s sluggish performance.
UPDATE 2: IE8 Beta 1 seems to be quite unstable. It has crashed about 4 times just today when I used it for normal browsing. Let’s hope Microsoft fixes it in the next release.
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I hardly use IE7. Can the IE8 emulate IE6?
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Hi Khengsiong, AFAIK, I don’t think IE8 can emulate IE6. Both IE7 and IE8 (beta) doesn’t seem very stable at all. Maybe it would be more suitable for Vista? I dunno.
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