Installed IE8....

[Beancooker]

Well, it has some serious improvements over IE7. I had to uninstall the Google toolbar, and reinstall Google's new beta5 toolbar, and it all works good.

I'll throw down some updates as I use it. I still need to figure out the whole history/cookies management of IE8. Sounds cool.

[bcar240]

Oh, thanks for the heads up, I didn't know it was already in Beta. I'd heard about it but not seen anything recently. I'm hoping for some improvements, IE7 didn't impress me much.

[Beancooker]

You can run it in "InPrivate" mode, and it'll ask if you want to allow or block cookies. You can set up "accellerators". Say you are on a page and there is a street address. You would normally, copy/paste that street address to say Google maps. Now you just highlight the street address, and right click. Click the google maps in the drop down menu, and it opens that street address in Google maps in another tab.

[Zydeco]

there still updating IE. It should of died by now.

[Red coupe]

sTm[-HeavyHips]there still updating IE. It should of died by now.

Ehh, it seems that competition has really made them step up their game...Not that I have used it much in the past years, but I have dropped in for one reason or another and they seem to have added some of the more important stuff (well at least imo, then again I don't know about the technical/security stuff)

They still cant even auto resize pics on forums though... Sucks because that they are the sole reason the GRM forums feel like they have to do the really ****ing annoying embedded images, where oversized images get their own scroll bars.

[The_Chosen_One]

They still cant even auto resize pics on forums though... Sucks because that they are the sole reason the GRM forums feel like they have to do the really ****ing annoying embedded images, where oversized images get their own scroll bars.

Sounds like a problem on your end. My IE7 autosizes everything for me.

[TeflonG35]

Firefox makes me happy.

[brandonDavid]

Firefox makes me happy.

[Beancooker]

My biggest disappointment is that it doesn't like to load the google toolbar. It's kind of a luck of the draw. Sometimes Google toolbar opens and sometimes it's not there. If you open the drop down menu, and try to check mark Google Toolbar, it asks you if you want to disable the add on. It thinks it's already enabled.

That part sucks for me, since I have a **** ton of links in the Google Toolbar, and it's most convenient, since where ever I go, I can access it, and open links that I wouldn't remember.

Other than that, I see it as a big improvement. Page loads are faster, and downloading video (YouTube) and buffering is a lot faster.

[Red coupe]

Sounds like a problem on your end. My IE7 autosizes everything for me.

Naw, not a problem on my end... I don't use it :P

I remember old IE used to do it, and the web guy over at GRM was saying the reason they didn't just display images as is rather then giving them scroll bars is because it messes up the formatting...

I have heard similar complaints from IE users about oversized images here, and looking through the options on IE when it was brought up on the other forum I didn't see the option. Good to hear though.

[240Knightrider]

IE doesnt care about competition. 75% of internet users still use IE.

Thats like google caring about yahoo.

I downloaded the beta about 2 months ago. Crashed a lot. I used to hate firefox until the new update. Everyone said it was more secure but it wasnt. It used to allow more malware through than IE. Now its flip flopped.

Firefox loads faster. I found google chrome to be slow, that and the EULA put a bad taste in my mouth..even if they changed it.

Only reason I use IE now is for Netflix Movie Viewing.

[Urabus GodofTraction]

They still cant even auto resize pics on forums though... Sucks because that they are the sole reason the GRM forums feel like they have to do the really ****ing annoying embedded images, where oversized images get their own scroll bars.

Their new forum has driven away traffic.

[Red coupe]

Their new forum has driven away traffic.

You use the same avatar over there yes?

I really really hate the way they do pictures, otherwise I don't mind the new format too much.

[Beancooker]

Okay, well I figured out the Google Toolbar issue.

When I uninstalled the google toolbar originally, I reinstalled their "beta toolbar"... that was a mistake... Uninstalled the Google "Beta Toolbar" (which needs more development) and reinstalled the older version. It works just fine and displays normal, and every time I open the browser.

[xekushnr]

Oh ****, how did that get there?