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stick with internet explorer 8 or get internet explorer 9?

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  • meher
    meher Posts: 15,910 Forumite
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    stick with internet explorer 8
    Niv wrote: »
    I dont know what I have done wrong but I installed IE9 and it opens as a blank screen.
    Is this the case for you on firefox as well? Someone has posted a similar question and found a solution here.
  • Ocentric
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    or get internet explorer 9
    If you are an IE8 user then do upgrade to IE9 as this is closer to the HTML 5 standard and you get to see some great new features where websites look better (CSS3).
    However, I am not a fan of Internet Explorer, I much prefer Firefox and Safari.
    But I've come across RockMelt a brand new browser, based on Chrome, that is good for both Tweeter and Facebook.
  • GunJack
    GunJack Posts: 11,884 Forumite
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    stick with internet explorer 8
    Must admit I'm now an Opera convert, but did try IE9 over 8 on my lappy....didn't really take to it, may well try it out again after a few months of bug-hunting by microsoft and "improving" it. Must admit, I still prefer IE7 of all the IE variants :)

    oh, and firefox (was a secondary browser) has been banished from all my machines now......
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  • johnnyboyrebel
    johnnyboyrebel Posts: 1,350 Forumite
    alanwjones wrote: »
    Had IE9 a week now looks like chrome works like chrome, I LIKE IT, a vast improvement on IE8.

    As others have said, dont use internet explorer whatever the version! It is slow and prehistoric. The best by far is Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/ Try it, it's free. You will notice the difference in speed.
  • meher
    meher Posts: 15,910 Forumite
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    stick with internet explorer 8
    Firefox is jittery. When I'm reading a post, before I finish the first sentence, the page would've jumped on it's own and I'd be suddenly reading the remainder of a different post making me wonder what on earth is going on. I've kept Firefox as a standby and that's about it that it is worth.
  • stick with internet explorer 8
    I installed IE9 last week, but didn't like the new Favourites Panel as the spacing has been enlarged, meaning that fewer Favourites can be displayed in the panel.

    I couldn't find any way of changing it to the smaller spacing, so I've gone back to IE8.
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  • shelly
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    Soon as I installed IE9 I wanted it gone. All of the bars and buttons I was used to had gone. That was until I realised I had to manually select them to get them back :o
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  • meher wrote: »
    Firefox is jittery. When I'm reading a post, before I finish the first sentence, the page would've jumped on it's own and I'd be suddenly reading the remainder of a different post making me wonder what on earth is going on. I've kept Firefox as a standby and that's about it that it is worth.

    This is more of an issue unique to you and your equipment as opposed to Firefox as I have never experienced any such problem.

    For a sensible answer to the OP, then recommending any alternative to IE is the correct answer.
  • meher
    meher Posts: 15,910 Forumite
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    stick with internet explorer 8
    This is more of an issue unique to you and your equipment ...
    congratulations on this profound diagnosis and thanks for this unsolicited feedback - not; nonethless you're quite right, I'm difficult to please - I expect anything I work on to be smooth and perfect and would settle for no lesser
  • alanwjones
    alanwjones Posts: 709 Forumite
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    or get internet explorer 9
    As others have said, dont use internet explorer whatever the version! It is slow and prehistoric. The best by far is Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/ Try it, it's free. You will notice the difference in speed.

    I perhaps should have explained that previous to IE9 I used Chrome because of the browser speed, I have now run a comparison and find both IE9 and Chrome compare favourably speedwise.
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