Internet Explorer 8 on XP

aliEnRIK

So I took the plunge and bravely installed IE 8 on my old XP computer
The result? opening a new tab makes the cpu jump to 100% for about 5 seconds and its crashed twice in 5 minutes

Anyone have any clue on changing settings so it might make it to only crashing every 10 mins?

hotkee

No chance - IE8 is buggy browser given the number of sites that have trouble with it (Yahoo mail and google mail prime examples) - that is not to say its the only browser which does have problems.

Performance - depends on your pc spec - if its an old pc - well that might cause issues. - low memory usual stuff. Low spec is likely to crash it - or maybe you have spyware or some virus - but doubt that.

Just use firefox if you cant upgrade the pc.

Check this thread http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1703491
Might do what that suggests - and try Reset.

loudcox

Start IE
Select Tools => Manage Add-Ons
Disable everything
Restart IE

Now see if IE works OK :-)

Then repeat the process but enable a single add-on at a time and see if it's stable.

Most of the add-ins aren't required - virtually anything aside from Flash isn't really required.



(Outside of that, thoroughly recommend the "upgrade" to FF or Opera)

aliEnRIK

Just turned it off now so might have a crack tomoz (Very rarely on to be honest)

Cheers for the replies