List your IE8 Problems

I decided to start a thread for listing IE8 problems as the other thread is mixed and getting huge.

I have encountered problems in IE8 which it looks like latest Flash V10,022,87 is the problem, V10,022,87 replaced the previous because it was freezing and causing problems in IE7 and FF, the problem was huge and it took along time for Adobe to fess up and make fixes, this latest version in IE8 has had me running into problems, I noticed a good chance of a problem occuring is when you get one of those annoying flash ads that float all over your screen, that same ad, when it stops floating around, if you put your mouse over the ad and it is one of those things that roll down or pops open, after you do that, you have a good chance of the page freezing, it does not happen all the time but it depends on if there are more flash ads on the page, I have figured out, the more flash ads on the page and the more you roll over them, the more chance of freezing you get, BUT, there is one upside to this version of Flash in IE8, and that is many Flash ads dont work in IE8, now Im wondering if I really want this version of Flash fixed.

 

64bit browser does not work with flash.

 

It's made my system take a few extra minutes to boot up (it hangs at the desktop without loading anything). It's made AIM 5.2 take much longer to connect when it doesn't just crash. It takes forever for the browser itself to start.

 

Im just testing the 32 bit version, I keep forgetting I have a 64 bit version.
I like my youtube

 

32 bit version here on XP Pro SP3 FTW

0 problems

 

i didnt even know people still used it!!
but it worked fine in win 7 x64 install; but still slow as hell.

 

None, don't use it.

 

People - report errors, not how well it works.

I've got "Adobe trouble".

Flash V10,022,87 (as OP) crashes the tab in my case...
Adobe Shockwave doesn't work for me either...

 

Flash is working fine for me right now, but, in the past when I've had problems with Flash crashing both FF and IE, I was able to solve the problem by doing this:

Right-click a Flash movie > Settings > Display tab > Uncheck "Enable hardware acceleration"

So... that might be worth a try if you're having crashes due to Flash.

 

When I go to a different website, the browser blank the screen for half a second, then load the webpage.

That's the only problem. Everything is is awesome. IE 8 is even faster than Firefox 3 on my netbook.

I like the color coded tab and accelerators.

 

Unable to install on Vista. Seems to go OK, gets as far as welcome screen, then all goes black, just a cursor and "configuring browser" message. Freezes at this point, have to do hard switch off and boot into safe mode, at which says IE8 installed OK. Nothing would respond, task manager would open but unable to work with it. Reboot...all graphics wrong no colour on menus and boxes, system tray looks like still in safe mode and half the desktop missing... just a white rectange where the sidebar should be. Tried twice to install... thank goodness for Acronis TI.
Have submitted free of charge support request to MS, data gathered etc... wait and see.

 

it crashes when I go to a website with so many flashes.

 

Mine works very smooth. I think it runs great. I have had it since yesterday so can´t compare yet with FF, which is my default browser.

I don't have problems with Adobe Flash in any web page(I am running Vista 64).

However when I close it I get an strange message window saying that IE8 has stopped working and Windows is looking for a solution to the problem. Minor issue I think...

 

I'm not sure if this is a problem, but I think the interface is a bit too complicated. Maybe I'm just used to using Firefox.

 

Contrary to my initial opinion, I have to revise and say that I like IE8 - I like it enough to consider keeping Opera(my default browser) now as a backup browser. Oh...I like the IE8 interface too... FF is for 'other' purposes.

I wish, however, that IE8's password manager was as good as Opera's. If there is one thing I would want improved in the immediate future, it would be this and the ability to skin IE8.

Edit: I forgot to mention that one of the first 'issues' I had with IE8 was with scrolling. I use the Logitech VX Nano and the Setpoint sw that comes with it. Scrolling was choppy and quite irritating. After checking at a few other places, I understand that there is a problem with Setpoint and IE. I uninstalled Setpoint and used the native (Vista) mouse settings. Things are much smoother now though I wish Setpoint would work for I am now with out a mouse battery meter. But I'll live, I guess.

 

For me, it is a little slow, and sites with flash can make the memory usage really high, one process has used almost 400mb.

And I still won't auto login on websites, despites having auto complete on.

 

Can you provide a sample link?

Gary

 

Speaking of auto login...its strange but the only sites on which this is a problem for me is Yahoo Mail and, most oddly, NBR...this is even when I check the box which says 'remember me on this computer.

I so wish they could fix this problem.

 

What I see so far is the "recommended web sites" funtionality/option slows down the search and rendering. Turning this off speeds IE8 back up. Other than this, the RC is not so much different than the previous version, as Microsoft is paying more attention to the security aspect of the browser.

cheers ...

 

The "remember me" option on NBR is not really tied to an autologin function of your browser. It is a cookie placed on your machine by NBR. If NBR finds the cookie it uses it to determine you identity and BYPASSES the login completely.

Gary

 

Sure...but then when I log out of NBR, the site seems to clear cookies by itself - or so it says. But that is neither here nor there with regard to IE8's (in)ability to save passwords on some sites, which includes NBR. This is quite frustrating. I could always use an external password manager, but then if the facility is there built into the browser, then why go for another additional piece of s/w? I mean if Opera and FF can do it, why not IE8? You see what I mean?

Cheers!

 

Under the safety options, you can try customising the InPrivate Filtering to select and allow sites that IE8 would keep the cookies until they expire.

cheers ...

 

OS: Vista x64

Issue: Install IE8, reboot. IE8 starts OK, but the tab bar does not respond to right-clicks, and any link that opens a new tab or window does not work.

Solution: Start the *print spooler* service. Run IE8. Issues go away. Stop print spooler. Issues will not return.

I have absolutely NO idea how the print spooler factors into ANYTHING, but this fixed two machines for me and one for a guy I pointed it out to online.

 

Don't forget the Compatibility View button, and the Compatibility View settings. Solves A LOT of problems on various websites!

 

0 problems so far! I love this browser

 

Opening blank new tabs seems to take a second or two longer than it needs to. Other than that, it's been running quite well.

I like the fact that if a tab crashes, it doesn't take down the other tabs with it. Even better, it tries to recover the tab, though not 100% of the time is it successful.

 

I am scared to say this, but I have also not found any problems thus far - after working out the initial problems with scrolling, and the password issue, that is!

I am even more abashed to say that since downloading and customizing (as far as IE8 can be customized), I have not gone back to Opera, which - from my perspective - is saying a lot!!!

I have to say, I like IE8!!!!

Edit: I am not finding the lag in opening new tabs as dbam is referring to...nor have I faced any problems with flash sites...maybe I am just lucky so far...fingers crossed!

 

Are you using the Beta 1, Beta 2, RC1, or final build of IE8? Just curious, as I'm back on IE7 since I reinstalled Vista a couple weeks back. It could be just my imagination playing tricks on me in the time it takes to launch new tabs. I'd play around with it more, but at work we are still using XP .

 

I think IE7 is slower than IE8.

By thew way... ever since upgrading Flash player it doesn't work on Youtube, iplayer but it does work on tmesonline???

 

One time in IE8, I was opening a new tab and the tab kept on closing on me until I restarted IE8.

 

one time in IE8, i was opening a new tab and it started to open new windows non-stoppable. and each with it's own process so you could not just quit it with taskmanager. thousands of new processes in seconds till the system nearly freezed.
hard reset was the only option..

ie doesn't like me. (such stuff happened for me with every version )

 

Final build of IE8 on Vista Sp1...it has been flawless till now...well except for the issues I mentioned earlier...and Youtube works fine...at least on my machine...ever seen that Korean girl playing Crazy Train on an electric violin??? She is amazing!!!!

 

On tiny little nit to pick. IESpell used to highlight the misspelled word in the actual text. It no longer does this. Anyone know of a decent replacement for iespell that I might try? It has not been updated since 2006. So I am guessing a fix for this won't be forthcoming.

Gary

 

Does IE8 have multi-thread tabs?

That's where much of the speed increase come from. Safari, Webkit, Chrome are all multi-threaded apps.

Firefox will be in the next major release (as well as having a re-written JS engine I think). As for IE8, it crashes for me, but honestly I've only played with it for 30 mins then ran back to Firefox.

 

Something worth noting, I guess...isn't it strange that some folks are facing problems with IE8, while others, like me, are not. I wonder what accounts for such divergent experiences.

Initially I thought that perhaps IE8 offered a better experience on Vista SP1 than on XP. But, I think this is incorrect because a browser should be able to operate with maximal efficiency on at least the same OS family - so XP, Vista etc. But from what I gather, XP users invariably have some problem or the other with IE8 (this does not exclude Vista users who have problems with IE8, but I am guessing the numbers are smaller).

If IE8 was all that bad, then the 'bad experience' should be universally horrible, which is also not the case - or at least I don't think so.

So, how to explain this?

 

Comlputers...
Even though they shouldn't they develop a life of teir own, that affects every programme.

Even browsers...so while IE makes a mess of some things for me, it may work well for you.

 

I too am having the password and cookie problem, it seems the more you use IE8 the more problems you will find, when I first installed and run IE8 it seemed like everything was fine till I got 2 days into it, my opinion is, IE8 is not as polished as a rtm should be, many of these problems should have been caught during beta and rc, but this is now the way the software makers do things by get it to market fast, then fix it later, another problem is when landing on a web page, somtimes I cant back out of it to the previous page.
Sure there were problems with IE7 at the beginning, but some of the IE8 problems are so obvious it blows my mind how they were not caught before rtm, I personaly think MS knows about the obvious and the problem is deeper then made out to be.

 

Well, in part, I agree. Aside from the scrolling (now much alleviated) and the password issue (which remains absymal), I have not found any other significant problems. I also think (more preceisely, hope) that MS will iron out these kinks in an upcoming update. However, why they should even think about this option (given that IE8 was much delayed in its release) beats me. Personally, I think, it is 'WoW' factor - in other words, the Microsoft Way, which sucks!

 

lineS of flight: I admit Im being a little sceptical here, but lately I have had two major issues with MS, 1st the Windows Home Server OS coruption bug that took 7 months to fix and currently SP2 for Expression Media 2 which MS quietly pulled, although my pic's were ok, my catalogs which took a-long time to make up, were destroyed, and still waiting for a fix.

 

Well...I don't blame you!!!! After that experience, you SHOULD be...scpetical, that is!

Cheers

 

sometimes a fix takes terrible long that's true. as a software dev (not a big one) i can say that sometimes, it's hell..

 

I've very disappointed with IE8, but I can't blame MS for focusing on making software optimized for Vista and Win7, and not XP. Maybe the XP issues will disappear a few months down the line, but I can't imagine after such a protracted lifespan for beta 2 and RC1 no XP users made enough noise to get this stuff looked at.

 

OK folks...here is another question....

When I try to block items on a page by using the block contents, it seems that it survives only for a single session. When I close down IE8 and fire it back up again, by default it reverts to 'nothing is blocked'. Is this the way it should be? Can I not define this globally and have it on 'block everything', which I can change as an when I want?

 

No issues here with IE 8.

 

flash issues also for me, it works fine UNTIL i install adobe flash plugin. then it jutst hangs all over the place. if i remove the adobe plugin it runs fine

 

I had an issue with it a few weeks ago (when it was still in beta) that made me revert back to IE7.
For some reason it would open multiple times, but in the background. That's right, I couldn't see any actual IE windows but if I looked at the task manager I could clearly see multiple iexplorer.exe running. One time I had over 20 running in the background like that. I couldn't figure out what was causing this, but it obviously slowed down my computer.
I reverted back to IE7 and the problem stopped. Was this a common issue with IE8 or was I having some odd problem?

I'm debating if I want to give it another try.

 

Just one comment on Flash.

Anyboy experiencing Flash problems - get the flash removal tol from Adobe (use google) then reinstal flash - videos work fine on Youtube now for me

Haven't had trouble on flash heavy site yet... or before for that matter.

 

I gotta say this....

Since IE8 has been released, I have been using it and have ignored my favoured browser Opera. I was excited about IE8 and while I was, for a while, having problems with IE8, overall, it was good. I enjoyed it. I particularly liked the interface.

Today, I made a conscious decision to fire up Opera (I am currently using the 9.64 version).

Hmmm...it was like a breath of fresh air!!!! It was fast...and I mean fast! I played around with the skins - that was fun too! The password manager (Wand) just worked - it always did! It was just so elegant and smooth! I don't know if this is because I am very very used to Opera - have been using it everyday, for over 14-18 hrs a day (yeah I suspect I suffer from insomnia), for 5 straight years!

At this point, I am so tempted to keep using Opera.

However, recently, I read somewhere (I'll dig up the source) that compared to IE8, Opera (at least 9.64) is less secure. If this is true (is it?) then I have a bit of a dilemma on my hands. But then again, there is Opera 10 to look forward to. I have no idea whether MS will break with their traditions and allow us to change and mod IE the way we can do with Opera.

BTW, today, for the first time, IE8 (rather one tab) crashed on me. It was right here on the NBR site. But I have to say, its recovery was smooth and painless.

Edit: I suppose the good thing now is that while I can use Opera for everything else, I can now use (painlessly) IE8 for stuff like google apps and other sites which have problems with Opera. Earlier, I used to dread using IE (7) and was forced to use FF, which I hate with a passion - this is just an irrational thing with me...have never liked FF, though some people who I know very well, swear by it...if you ask me why....I generally have no coherent answer for this antipathy towards FF.

 

How many tabs did you have open? IE like Chrome runs different tabs in different processes so if one crashes, it is less likely to crash the whole browser.

 

Do you recall what version flash you were using, the current one is 10.0.22.87 the version before this was bad and froze IE7 and FF, the current version 10.0.22.87 addressed the problems in IE7 and FF but pose problems in IE8.