IE8 -- mandatory for WUXGA users!

Just upgraded to Microsoft Internet Explorer 8. All I can say is, "wow", web pages finally render properly in zoom mode, and my 15.4" WUXGA screen, and my 24" WUXGA screens are actually very usable now.

I highly recommend that anyone with a high resolution display that regularly relies upon the 'zoom' feature of IE7, upgrade to IE8 immediately.

Also, IE8 has fewer memory leaks, especially when you have many browser windows open. I have not had to kill an IE8 process yet through the task manager. This is Microsoft's best browser yet, by far.

 

did microsoft finally listen to their customers? i've been completely converted to a firefox user even since I gave it a shot 2 years ago.

 

I like IE8.

And I am really excited about Windows 7.

Yes, Microsoft listens to their customers AND come up with good stuff of their own when they have serious competition. As soon as they feel secure, they stop releasing anything useful.

Thanks to the browser wars 2.0 IE is suddenly picking up.
Thanks to the realization that people with old computers will stick with XP combined with the new trend of netbooks forced Windows 7 to actually be, well, a good operating system.

 

IE 8 pwns FF3 on my netbook. It's faster and more pleasing to my eyes before modding.

 

Oh, nice to know that IE now knows how to zoom. I use that feature since it exists in firefox, and it's awesome. Webbrowsing would suck else on my 24".

Next I want an Auto-Zoom-To-Width (any ff extension for this? )

 

ie8 cant remember your password and user name for more than 1 day,
thats a big flaw to this new browser.

 

it can. it looks like it's buggy on some systems. but afaik it's no general problem.

 

I use the Zoom on every page in IE8, and I love that the setting remains permanent for all web pages. In Firefox I thought you have to reset the Zoom with every single page - a real disadvantage. Are you saying you don't have to reset it in Firefox? How do you do that????

 

IE8 broke my PC, so I had to rollback. It was very disappointing.

One of the biggest disappointments, though, was that zoomed in text still created a horizontal scrollbar even in fullscreen mode, apparently it doesn't do this for you?

 

Then why don't you share with us what exactly you did and/ or how you set it up such that IE8 remembers passwords on ALL pages? Please describe your rig set up also incase that plays a role in IE8 saving passwords - why this should be important, I don't know, but I get the feeling that it is...for example, I get the distinct feeling that IE8 does not work very well on XP...but then that is just me and my unscientific observations.

Edit: Because for me, aside from gmail and one or two sites, IE8 is having a problem saving passwords...one illustrative example is NBR!!!

 

i use it on vista 32bit sp1. yes, it could be because of that. but as i personally only use firefox i haven't bothered about it yet. i'll try it out laters at home.

xp, bah do you think they actually still really develop for xp anymore?

 

Hmmm....I am using IE8 on Vista SP1 too, which is where I am facing the problem. Now, I am really interested! Thanks

 

dou you know is there a way to use site based zoom level?
i mean i dont want to set the zoom level every time when browsing the page just only once like FF nosquint
the zooming experience is way better in ie8, no way to go back to FF or opera

i'm using ie8 at 138% zoom with a 1920x1200res and 17" screen but some pages still too small

 

I'm still on chrome but my first impressions when I firstly used IE8 were good. Chrome keeps crashing on W7 for now so I might give it a shot if it continues like this.