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IE8 Should be your only browser.
To start with, I'm running Vista x64 on a core 2 duo with plenty of hp and it is much faster than IE7. Even there (as with all current browsers) the speed difference isn't of the earth shattering type, but quite an improvement.
I love the new features, the in-private browsing, web-slices, tab groups, the list goes on....oh yeah, some pretty neat add ons and hopefully we'll see a lot more of those.


Then couple this with the fact that IE simply blew away the field in it's ability to filter malware sites, making it the safest browser on Windows imho, it's my default and my every day browser
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IE8 Should be your only browser.  xuniL_z | 03/26/09
Gimme an AdBlocker and a Flash-buster  LBiege | 03/26/09
Re: AdBlocker & Flashbuster  vinnyboombatz | 03/27/09
I'm testing today  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/27/09
I agree on that one. But like Google....  xuniL_z | 03/27/09
IE8's InPrivate Filtering and new IE8's add-ons management already do that.  qmlscycrajg | 03/30/09
Try GogoData  LegendsOfBatman | 04/08/09
Only if you want to stay with horse and buggy technology........  linux for me | 03/26/09
majority will use IE  joeller | 03/27/09
REAL standards are those set by ...  mwagner@... | 03/27/09
Yarp  WarhavenSC | 03/30/09
Again we see silly coments.  Cayble | 03/27/09
No.....Just an extreme response to an extreme post.  linux for me | 03/29/09
I Can Understand That, But  LegendsOfBatman | 04/08/09
What do you expect from the LInux crowd? More bitterness from the losers...  transposeIT | 03/30/09
Look in the mirror again....  linux for me | 03/30/09
Is that so?  InAction Man | 03/27/09
Oh, you didn't know?  xuniL_z | 03/27/09
IE8 already has 70% market share? Wow what a bomb you just droped on me!  InAction Man | 03/28/09
that numbers??  xuniL_z | 03/28/09
And then reality crashed the party...  ejhonda | 03/27/09
How could this be?  donniebnyc@... | 03/27/09
Wrong, the final version is not vulnerable to that exploit  jacec | 03/27/09
Firefox is just as susceptible  de-void | 03/27/09
Every Browser is subject to exploits  edwards.wb | 03/27/09
But I'm sure you'll find comfort in the fact....  xuniL_z | 03/27/09
Truth? You wouldn't recognize the truth if  InAction Man | 03/28/09
Well duh....  xuniL_z | 03/28/09
Pie in the sky  hasta la Vista, bah-bie | 03/30/09
new era. MS will never be able to coast again. (nt)  xuniL_z | 03/30/09
I'll believe it when I see it  hasta la Vista, bah-bie | 03/30/09
It is...  storm14k | 03/27/09
Your post  xuniL_z | 03/27/09
It is to me. IE8 is the only browser  InAction Man | 03/28/09
I'd only have to use it...  hasta la Vista, bah-bie | 03/30/09
Will not touch it - ever  Economister | 03/27/09
but  Azathothh | 03/27/09
We were thinking the same thing at the same time.  xuniL_z | 03/27/09
Wow  xuniL_z | 03/27/09
You disagree??? Now things are starting to make some sense!  InAction Man | 03/28/09
Then you haven't...  Marty R. Milette | 07/08/09
But you are using x64 ...  mwagner@... | 03/27/09
IE8 is 32-bit by default  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/27/09
We are using IE8 x64 and.....  htotten | 03/27/09
what about sites that use flash player?  xuniL_z | 03/28/09
I use the x64 IE 7 and flash works most of the time..  JCitizen | 04/05/09
Thanks, Ed!  mwagner@... | 03/27/09
Shrink Wrap  htotten | 03/27/09
Most consumer PCs today  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/27/09
I'm pretty sure...  JCitizen | 04/05/09
Ed, do you know if there is 64 bit Flash player in the works?  xuniL_z | 03/28/09
No change...  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/28/09
Thanks. (nt)  xuniL_z | 03/28/09
I got flash 10 now...  JCitizen | 04/05/09
I've used IE8 64-Bit  LegendsOfBatman | 04/08/09
IE8-64 bit  allen069 | 09/02/09
From what I'm seeing, 4 GB machines are entering the 1K$ market. But.  xuniL_z | 03/27/09
Agreed  LegendsOfBatman | 04/08/09
Re: IE browser (is a has been).....  Christian_<>< | 03/27/09
RE: IE browser (is a has been)  Col Mustard | 03/27/09
Such wisdom!  InAction Man | 03/28/09
ok, I'll give it one shot.  xuniL_z | 03/28/09
Such wisdom!  InAction Man | 03/29/09
Still living in the 90s eh?  xuniL_z | 03/27/09
You wrote: "...liberals who back socialism." Would you like to retract  InAction Man | 03/28/09
Ok, I'll play along....  xuniL_z | 03/28/09
Its all about 'teh snappy'  Kaiwai | 03/27/09
Speed difference is trivial. Did you notice Ed's command line fix for....  xuniL_z | 03/28/09
FF has Never been fast for me  LegendsOfBatman | 04/08/09
Poor Programming  hantoyo1@... | 03/29/09
Backup browser needed  jeh_it | 03/29/09
RE "IE8 Should be your only browser"  RedVeg | 04/06/09
"should be" "only"  SpectreWriter | 07/08/09
So. Do we really need to tweak it to make it fast?  Dealing | 03/26/09
You miss the point  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/26/09
Is there a bug report we can follow?  Michael Kelly | 03/27/09
"A number of people"  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/27/09
Your right...  JCitizen | 04/05/09
re-registering Dll's does no harm  joeller | 03/27/09
You Are Contradicting Yourself Ed  chessmen | 03/31/09
And...  Dave32265 | 03/27/09
I didn't mean to do double post. But I just loaded IE8 and tried.  Dealing | 03/26/09
Everyone can see IE8 is bottom of the barrel in the browser market except  InAction Man | 03/27/09
Gee  wolf_z | 03/27/09
What Wolf said!  Timpraetor | 03/27/09
It does stuff ! (got my new XP computer today 2.2GHz)  rtirman37@... | 03/27/09
Do you really know what your talking about?  qvtech | 03/27/09
Might be easy to run  wolf_z | 03/27/09
On the other hand, Safari.....  xuniL_z | 03/28/09
You would better check your 'facts'  InAction Man | 03/27/09
Everyone except the billions of users that use it  joeller | 03/27/09
*If* what you say is true then...  InAction Man | 03/27/09
Immature and thoughtless  zenwalker | 03/27/09
Don't mind InAction. He just don't have enough brain cells for intelligent  transposeIT | 03/30/09
Sewer dweller wrote: "He just don't have" and "baasement dweller" Retract?  InAction Man | 03/30/09
Re:Inactionmam  Col Mustard | 03/27/09
The speed factor matters less than 5%  kraterz | 03/26/09
Totally agree  Helio99000 | 03/26/09
Totally Disagree  joeller | 03/27/09
I do not know what you are  lobo1953 | 03/27/09
this is what i call a good review  jk_10 | 03/26/09
My experience with IE8 so far  eMJayy | 03/26/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  Helio99000 | 03/26/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  Loverock Davidson | 03/26/09
For the record...  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/26/09
Neither do I  jk_10 | 03/27/09
Even honest people WITHOUT a mission ...  mwagner@... | 03/27/09
Mossberg has a mission  eggmanbubbagee@... | 03/27/09
IE8 rocks  iHateLusers | 03/26/09
Got extensions?  angrykeyboarder | 03/27/09
Does it matter ...  mwagner@... | 03/27/09
Kind of silly move, don't you think?  eMJayy | 03/27/09
What makes you say that?  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/27/09
Not the improvements that actually count  eMJayy | 03/27/09
nt  RDrr | 03/28/09
Not a silly move ...  mwagner@... | 03/27/09
FF not playing catch-up  eMJayy | 03/27/09
Pssst  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/27/09
Don't worry eMJayy  xuniL_z | 03/27/09
Would you be happier...  DrMicro | 03/29/09
What about standards compliance? Doesn't that count?  InAction Man | 03/27/09
Here we go again  soonerproud | 03/27/09
I've found the exact opposite. On my Vista machine..  xuniL_z | 03/28/09
You wrote "I don't think issues that aer the exceptions"  InAction Man | 03/29/09
And you are basing this on.....?  xuniL_z | 03/29/09
The "programmability side of the equasion" (your words) is the weak  InAction Man | 03/29/09
1995 called and wants it's lame arguments back.  xuniL_z | 03/29/09
@zunil: Your words carry such deep emotion, such passion. It's touching!  InAction Man | 03/30/09
InAction Man said "." What did the period mean? (nt)  xuniL_z | 03/30/09
IE represents a "de facto" standard ...  mwagner@... | 03/27/09
Not for long  eMJayy | 03/27/09
I like a long term thinker.....  xuniL_z | 03/28/09
Opposites attract.  InAction Man | 03/29/09
In the past it might have been, but...  zkiwi | 04/08/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  L8erG8er | 03/27/09
this is not the default....  JoeMama_z | 03/27/09
Been pretty good for me....  JoeMama_z | 03/27/09
All we have 2GB di RAM: I love IE8 uses it to increase the stability!  qmlscycrajg | 03/27/09
Washington post test: IE8 faster than Firefox 3.07  IE8 | 03/27/09
Actually...  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/27/09
IE8 slow ? Possible causes part 1  IE8 | 03/27/09
A huge reason to avoid IE8  soonerproud | 03/27/09
Not really  IE8 | 03/28/09
Wrong  soonerproud | 03/28/09
I solve this by running the current version of Windows.  xuniL_z | 03/28/09
and Linux is difficult to use  Brent R Brian | 03/27/09
yes it is  Mectron | 03/27/09
Wrong.  T1Oracle | 03/27/09
IE8 slow ? Possible causes part 2  IE8 | 03/27/09
Mine is not slow...it is like FireRoxio !  Gillman_Zorgam | 03/27/09
Vista speedy  IE8 | 03/27/09
C'mon ...  super_J | 03/27/09
Non-Issues  InAction Man | 03/27/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  General C# | 03/27/09
Because...  Dave32265 | 03/27/09
Thanks for the tweak  timiteh | 03/27/09
Second that  laxmanb | 03/27/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  Gis Bun | 03/27/09
IE8 needs to be finished into a full version.....to make this claim stick.  Gillman_Zorgam | 03/27/09
Yes, fat and slow, tweak didn't help, no. processes wrong  ron.cleaver@... | 03/27/09
Security !  Alan Smithie | 03/27/09
Summary of this article  dfolk2 | 03/27/09
Sigh  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/27/09
Here is the possible problem ED  soonerproud | 03/27/09
It's your tone!  Eleutherios | 03/27/09
Did you read the same article that I just read? [nt]  Timpraetor | 03/27/09
@dflolk2. Well if that is how you feel, you must...  xuniL_z | 03/28/09
Pray that you don't have a crash  shardeth | 03/27/09
Summary: Fat? Yes! Slow? Maybe!  sparkkkey | 03/27/09
Adobe is killing my Safari and Apple Performance  francis.carden@... | 03/27/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  Timpraetor | 03/27/09
web page? Javascript intense pages?  ismoore | 03/27/09
Used mix of HTML and Flash pages  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/27/09
ha....  ismoore | 03/27/09
Gmail is a good one (NT)  soonerproud | 03/27/09
I used that in my perf tests  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/27/09
Agreed  soonerproud | 03/27/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  gregzdnet | 03/27/09
registering the actxprxy.dll  wGrahamT | 03/27/09
That KB goes back to Nov 2000 or earlier  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/27/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  super_J | 03/27/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  john.ath@... | 03/27/09
*Deleted*  ismoore | 03/27/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  archer75 | 03/27/09
Well actually ...  super_J | 03/27/09
IE 8 great  hansonjb | 03/27/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  Kiwi Dave | 03/27/09
The unanswered questions are ...  mwagner@... | 03/27/09
I sometimes have 40-50 tabs open  jorjitop | 03/27/09
ZDNet = Blatent Microsoft Bias  itanalyst2@... | 03/27/09
let me tell you what it is supposed to be  jk_10 | 03/27/09
Bias?  htotten | 03/27/09
Or just MAYBE ...  mwagner@... | 03/27/09
ZDNET = Blatent Linux Bias  gregzdnet | 03/27/09
Gotta love the paranoia...  Dave32265 | 03/27/09
Paranoia  gregzdnet | 03/28/09
So I guess...  Dave32265 | 03/28/09
Just the opposite.  Bruizer | 03/29/09
I'd say...  DrMicro | 03/29/09
Worked for me!  MerryMarjie | 03/27/09
re-registering helped me - a lot  Jim Johnson | 03/27/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  tomtrevathan | 03/27/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  Pferox69@... | 03/27/09
Tip: run IE8 as IE7  Jim Johnson | 03/27/09
IE8 - Don't like it, but I appreciate it is a good browser  Scrat | 03/27/09
OPERA?  nikacat | 03/27/09
Can IE8 Do CSS 3?  dougit | 03/27/09
do you know a site is using CSS3 ?  qmlscycrajg | 03/30/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  arnieadam@... | 03/27/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  joefine48@... | 03/27/09
IE 8  Catalin Irasog | 03/27/09
Can live with IE8 perf and mem usage -- but not mem LEAKAGE!  dogmo1001 | 03/27/09
leakage  jk_10 | 03/27/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  edwards.wb | 03/27/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  professordnm | 03/27/09
Who cares, really?  athaki | 03/27/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  zzracin@... | 03/27/09
Check your add-ons  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/27/09
Which Add-on?  hansa@... | 03/27/09
It was a beta  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/27/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  gestrate@... | 03/27/09
Makes no difference  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/27/09
They are all fast!  Narg | 03/27/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  deowll | 03/27/09
Hope Windows won't crash  laman | 03/27/09
IE usage is going down, it is old news.....  Christian_<>< | 03/27/09
So....  DrMicro | 03/29/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  hantoyo1@... | 03/27/09
Re: 40 or 50 tabs...  Christian_<>< | 03/27/09
IE malware is a feature, NOT an OPTION  hantoyo1@... | 03/29/09
Nice tweak, indeed.  flatliner | 03/27/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  larissa860 | 03/27/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  pccow000 | 03/28/09
Windows and Linux and Thankyou Ed, thankyou so very much  TonyOz | 03/28/09
I think IE 8 is on the right track  jscott418 | 03/28/09
How does one undo the dll tweak?  websunny@... | 03/28/09
How does one undo the dll tweak?  chrispy7 | 03/28/09
How does one undo the dll tweak?  websunny@... | 03/28/09
Never mind regedit, all you have to do is...  DrMicro | 03/29/09
Very bad idea  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/30/09
Sorry... wasn't thinking.  DrMicro | 03/31/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  sqr(cos(180)) | 03/28/09
echo 'RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow' | awk ' { print $3, $4, $2, $5}'  sparkkkey | 03/28/09
Released versions  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/29/09
Ed, your fix is stupid  hasta la Vista, bah-bie | 03/30/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  oldleftwinger | 03/28/09
Will slow net speed impact browser comparisons  bksgs1 | 03/29/09
Witch Doctor Solution  mike@... | 03/29/09
Are you asking for IE to reinstall Windows?  LeoD | 03/30/09
Incomplete info  The_Curmudgeon | 03/29/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  dusher | 03/29/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  DrMicro | 03/29/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  jimk_z | 03/30/09
There is NO CRASHES with Firefox  AlessandroBorges@... | 03/30/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  reynolds@... | 03/30/09
The Real Fix - Dump IE and Go To Firefox  chessmen | 03/31/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  aditya.voleti | 03/30/09
Use System Restore  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/30/09
Re: Use System Restore  aditya.voleti | 03/30/09
fix  magallanes | 03/30/09
Wrong and wronger  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 03/30/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  johan.kloosterman@... | 03/30/09
@Ed Re: actxprxy.dll  Adrian Kingsley-Hughes ZDNet Moderator | 03/31/09
Try Chrome's "about:memory" page  mheyman | 03/31/09
That 'solution' makes my mother shriek in fear.  jayjay76 | 03/31/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  techfix | 04/02/09
A good rule of thumb (meant as "reply to story")  Ole Man | 04/04/09
disable all addons  chdd | 04/03/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  RedVeg | 04/06/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  merumaru@... | 04/06/09
Firefox crashes  LeonBA | 04/08/09
Try this with Firefox & IE7 or IE8  Bruce9999 | 04/27/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  dpeck1947@... | 05/01/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  flybyknight4.0 | 05/04/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  kris777 | 05/07/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  pompeia | 06/11/09
RE: Is IE8 really fat and slow?  SachinShere | 10/07/09

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