IE8 issues ????

[Gosling1]

For some reason, on the CanberraRIDERS forum, the response time when typing in text boxes takes farking FOREVER - ie, I can type a line of text, it does not appear as I am typing it, then it all appears at once anywhere from 5-8 seconds later.... - with the mistakes.....and then re-positioning the cursor takes another 20 fucking seconds...... - and if I get to the bottom of the text box (eg using 'Quick Reply') - well the fuckin' text box scrolls UP each keystroke - so you can't actually read what you are typing !!!! Its so farked its driving me insane....


Anyone else had this problem on other sites ??? On this site - no problems. The letters appear instantly when typed as they should.....and re-positioning the cursor is also instant........so its not an ISP problem, or a computer problem from my end ??

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated....

cheers
PostWhoreGos

[ijuschill]

the problem is your using IE8, it's a Microsoft product . Get Firefox, works heaps better than IE8

[Nosferatu]

if you're hell bent on continuing to use ie over firefox, try going through these steps

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936213

ie8 sucks balls

[hoffy]

firefox

[Lone Wolf]

latest update of Firefox is pissing me off though, AVG keeps finding tracking cookies every damn time I open it!!

[Smitty]

our IT guys removed it...IE8 that is and went back to IE7 or FF in some cases
it kept crashing both XP and Vista boxes at work

I use FF at home

[DMonkey]

Yea we decided not to roll out IE8 at work
we use IE7 but I use Firefox
its far more secure and far more stable!

[seiko1]

Yep I've had the same probs and also when opening another tab sometimes is just won't display the page.
Easy to roll back though, just go to add/remove programs and remove IE8.
It will just roll back to IE7
Too easy Campese

[Gosling1]

well I took everyone's advice - and installed FF3.5 this morning.........well how about that, I can browse again with speed, the local forum is back to working just like it should........

thanks for the tips -

[tim]

Cool it's sorted.

Yup can't touch IE after I started using firefox!

IE makes fonts look like crap too!

[Gosling1]

Everything about FF just looks so much cleaner ?? Even the drop-down favourites (bookmarks) look heaps tidier...

If anyone else out there using IE8 has noticed that posting etc, has become heaps slower..............do yourselves a favour and download FF3.5.

[Neilp]

Everything about FF just looks so much cleaner ?? Even the drop-down favourites (bookmarks) look heaps tidier...

If anyone else out there using IE8 has noticed that posting etc, has become heaps slower..............do yourselves a favour and download FF3.5.

I use both, dont have a problem with either!


Neil

[Gosling1]

Congratulations Neil !! thats really good news mate !!!

[hoffy]

Didnt mind IE 7, but as soon as IE 8 came out it was rubbish...almost to the point of frustratingly slow and a pain in the arse !

how can they get worse !!??!! usually the next model suppose to be better.

[seiko1]

Didnt mind IE 7, but as soon as IE 8 came out it was rubbish...almost to the point of frustratingly slow and a pain in the arse !

how can they get worse !!??!! usually the next model suppose to be better.

Exept when it's microsoft