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  1. 1. Rate your experience with IE8 beta 1 so far

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I see they still going with the old UI.

I hate the interface, loathe it.

Why on earth have the new tab button on the far right of the tab bar. When you have 10?or?more tabs open, you have to go searching for it instead fo one static location.

I dont like favicons, a option to not have them download be fantastic.

Ahhhh Opera, my saviour

I installed it, went to a few sites. Almost all of them had problems rendering the pages. I uninstalled and opened Firefox 3 beta 4 nightly build and was happy again.

Thats a few minutes of your life you will never be able to get back. Shame on you lol. Once we've been spoiled by FireFox, it's almost like there is no need to care or use IE 8 =-)

Is anyone else having the problem of having the horizontal scroller no matter what? It's on my screen even on sites that don't have stuff out of range of my horizontal view, and it's getting annoying. Going to IE7 mode fixes it, however. :wacko:

Like I said before, too, the "lock the toolbar" option works, but if you open up new tabs it messes up and gives you the whole ">>" to show other icons.

Used IE8 for an hour, but uninstalled mainly because it really corrupted the sidebar in Vista, making gadgets that were docked so large, you could barely make out what they were.

Having said that, and aside from that niggle, the browser itseelf worked ok for me.

Lets see what the next beta release has in store, before i pass any kind of comment on it's useability

I've been running it for a few days now, also updated to the newest IE7Pro add-on which adds some nice stuff IE8 still doesn't have. Today though I decided to give the Favorites bar a shot, but I don't have my links up there. I have way too many links in different folders and it doesn't look right so I made a new folder and moved them there. Now what I do have up there are the RSS feeds I use. Which is a nice place to have them imo. Note I was using a 3rd party RSS reader before this but I think I'll give this new way a try. I didn't like how it was in IE7.

Is anyone else having the problem of having the horizontal scroller no matter what? It's on my screen even on sites that don't have stuff out of range of my horizontal view, and it's getting annoying. Going to IE7 mode fixes it, however. :wacko:

I can confirm this. I'm also having that somewhat useless horizontal scrollbar on the bottom. :wacko:

I would leave Firefox for sure if IE8 had integrated spell check.

I know people want it built into IE8 but you can get the IE7Pro add on and get your spell check through that. And it doesn't mess with IE performance wise.

I hate the Lay out of IE7, i know its still the beta 1, so i expect a lot of Lay out changes still. Browsed around for a bit, it seems quite responsive, maybe its a bit faster than IE7, but other than that i dont noticed any changes, except its buggier :p But i will stay with Firefox, for ever, and forever :p

I think it's been said already that this isn't what the final UI will be. But nothing about the UI has been said from the IE guys directly.

I don't have a single problem with the IE7 UI, it's simple and to the point. I can see why people would like to move buttons around and maybe they'll finally let you do that later on in IE8.

UI aside I just want it to use less memory like IE7 did, this first beta has made a jump in memory usage.

Bring back the option to re-open the tabs you have open when closing IE8 that was in IE7.

And change the way IE downloads files so I can resume a broken download.

Just those 3 things for me really.

i dunno. been getting errors on vista with it so far. relatively new clean install of vista & sp1.

also a lot of sites seem to not render properly, including neowin. text looks all over the place

Its really unstable... compared to firefox 3 beta4. not considering the fact that its a later beta, i've used the alpha release and it works better then ie beta.

I run it on a presario c700 with T2330 with vista ultimate. It lags a little compared to ie7 when you open lots of tabs.

It's been working fine so far for me. It's odd though that when it does crash (it's happened twice since I installed it) it splits all the tabs into new iexplorer.exe processes. That's not a big problem really and it's probably by design. I think a few people might be thrown off by that though.

Anyways, bring on Beta2! I can't wait.

Performance is also better than IE7 for me.

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