IE8 Painfully slow

MrsBish

Since upgrading to IE8 last week, my Internet Explorer has been painfully slow. Am using it on a Dell Inspiron 1300, and IE was working very quickly beforehand.

What should I do? Can I easily un-install it and return to the previous version?

All tips appreciated!

Many thanks

spud17

I understand that you just uninstall it from the add/remove programs and it reverts to IE7.

Blackpool_Saver

download chrome or firefox, they fly

GunJack

I found this too....8 was sloooow on the desktop, so just uninstalled and flying on 7 again Also having another try of firefox, but still not convinced by it..IE7 for me still, I think
however, IE8 on the vista lappy doesn't seem too bad, maybe it's been tweaked to go better on vista than on xp if so, another bad move by microsoft

hotkee

ie8 is buggy with gmail and yahoo too.

I was having trouble with ICICI bank login with firefox, 80% working. Tried ie8, its completely not working with the bank login. Tried opera no luck. Then tried safari and that worked. Geeez.

The slowness in ie8, particularly startup etc can be cured with this

regsvr32 actxprxy.dll

at least thats what I have tried (found it on net somewhere), in vista, the command has to run as administrator. reboot required.

basmic

Actually the slowness of IE8 loading, could well be a problem with Spybot's immunisation lists - Spybot themselves admit this, but it's actually Microsoft's fault.

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/news/2009-03-25.html

Internet Explorer 8 issues

Various reports from the Internet and from our own testing seem to indicate that there is a problem between Internet Explorer 8 and the immunization feature of Spybot - Search & Destroy causing a slow startup of IE 8.

Seeing all those different opinions floating around, we want to clarify what the Immunization feature does. It is one level of our protection that does protect you even if Spybot-S&D is completely shut down. This is possible by using the browsers own lists for blocked sites, by filling them with a huge list of bad sites known to us. And Internet Explorer, starting with version 8, seems to have problems with huge amounts of sites added there.

Critics say that this kind of protection is not that good because recent malware sometimes uses new servers every day even, but then, this is just one layer of our protection. Our Internet Explorer plugin is better able to deal with these, but we feel that's not the point.

Quality assurance is a very important factor of software development, and unoptimized list handling is the probable cause for most performance issues. Whenever software does support lists of data that are not fixed in size, but where the size, like in this case, is open to the user, software tests should include performance tests on huge amounts of data. And usually, it's really just choosing a better algorithm for searches, for example.

Granted, at times a release is pressing and testing gets neglected and not as detailed as it should be - it never is. We know that quite well ourselves: just a few months ago we did slow down IE through our own plugin because we did not expect users to have tens of thousands of cookies at the same time. Did we expect users to cut down on their cookies? No. If you offer a feature, like Microsoft offers to put websites into a Restricted Zone, then please try to support in all ways the users might use it.

Knub

+1 for using FireFox here...so much better.

HoofeHearted

basmic wrote: »

Actually the slowness of IE8 loading, could well be a problem with Spybot's immunisation lists - Spybot themselves admit this, but it's actually Microsoft's fault.

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/news/2009-03-25.html

Thanks for that. I use IE8 with Windows 7 RC and that is the first thing that I noticed - slow browsing. On my XP machine I use Firefox 3. Will try Firefox on Win 7 and see if it's any faster.
[P.S. I have Spybot on both PCs]

Kane99uk

Thanks for that post basmic - I was thinking of making the jump from IE7 to IE8 but as I also use Spybot S&D, I think I'll stick with IE7 for now.

stevieg123_2

If everyone used firefox the world would be a better place, IE8 is ok but as with all other IE's is floored!

sweetiepie2121

MrsBish wrote: »

Since upgrading to IE8 last week, my Internet Explorer has been painfully slow. Am using it on a Dell Inspiron 1300, and IE was working very quickly beforehand.

What should I do? Can I easily un-install it and return to the previous version?

All tips appreciated!

Many thanks

Go with safari web browser is the fasdest going out there out of them all.I am well happy.