Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Issue

Last week I wrote about the hassles I experienced with installing Internet Explorer 8 on my XP machine at work. Overall I have not had too many problems with it … mainly because my default browser is Firefox! However I did run into an annoyance with this beta I would like to point out.

I went to the Creative Autoupdate site to see if there were new drivers for my sound card. I was created by the following message.

No problem right? I will just click on the Emulate IE 7 button …

Then IE told me I needed to restart the browser, which I did … unlike Firefox IE did not automatically restart … it just sat there. I then closed out of IE 8 Beta 1 and went back in … eh … then you have to browse back to the page that did not work.

I lazily searched and found this Add-on for IE 8. This puts an icon on the Taskbar that lets you report a page that does not display with IE 8 Beta 1. Just one annoyance I have found so far … but I can't complain too much since it is a beta release after all. I am curious what types of issues any of you have found with this release. Post away folks!

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This article was originally written on 03/27/08 Tagged with: Internet, Windows

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Comments (2)

1. March 28, 2008 3:30 am
   blueclock

   The main thing I've found in IE8 is that it really doesn't like Google Maps.

   I'm getting a bit sick of the browser wars though. This week has been particularly bad with Mozilla telling everyone that their Beta is OK for public consumption just because Safari pipped them at the post. Then they started to say that ACID 3 didn't really matter because Opera and WebKit were about to announce that they had managed to pass the ACID 3 test.

   It would be good if they just admitted that Firefox 3 is a year late (like most browser projects) and got on with finishing it. I've no doubt it'll be a good browser but I don't think they should be unleashing a Beta that is incompatible with extensions on the general public just so they can maintain their market share.

   When Firefox 3 is finally released in June, it'll be an interesting time as I think we'll see another leap ahead in IE8.

2. April 22, 2008 11:30 pm
   cbassett

   I don't like Firefox at all so I'll stick ol' IE8 and I have that add-on because of howstuffworks.com but most of the time I am just Emulating IE7.