This is not really the place for this thread but we don't seem to have a forum for general software discussion, and microshit bitching.... (methinks i detect a gap in the market)



Anyway... finally 'bit the bullet' and got around to installing IE8 on my main machine which I have been avoiding for as long as possible... hand was a little forced as things are starting to no longer work.

Goodness me what a lumbering great elephant of a browser it is. You have to be really on the ball and tech savvy to avoid all the crap they load it up with... the number of add-ons, 'accelerators', silverlight, bing toolbar, auto link updates, suggested site indicators, auto suggestions, blah bladdy blah they sneak on if you don't read the small print is nothing short than spyware.... and i thought google were bad!

I spent half an hour getting rid of all the rubbish i neither asked for nor needed...

nothing changes...




(will say that once i ditched all the 'extras' it is very neat and pretty zippy... )

I don't like IE and only use it when necessary. I have heard all kinds of negatives about IE 8 as well. I have no intention of upgrading.

Actually I am pretty comfortable with IE 8, (came pre-installed in my laptop) and therefore did not have to navigate through the add-ons.....though looking at ur post stav...that's surely my good luck...

really Atula? so you don't have silverlight or the bing toolbar?

It tried to hijack my homepage too... but i kiled it....

Toolbars are a curse. They bring nothing but problems. I would never use any toolbars but the main ones with the browser.

I'm not sure what version of IE I have - I'm currently in Firefox here.

I will definitely keep in mind the warnings about trimming down the extras that slow the browser down, and I still should reload Firefox with that in mind.