IE8 problem

lokiguesty · 1 May 2009 at 17:40

Hi all

ever since updating to IE8 2 days ago i cant get normal internet explorer to open, when i click on the icon it just hangs and doesnt open.

the only way i have been able to get on the net is to use IE 64 bit. which is all well and good but i cant use flash player as its not compatible with 64bit IE.

does anyone else have this problem with IE8? or does anyone know how to fix it?

thanks

Loki

goujon945 · 1 May 2009 at 17:43

Sorry mate cnt help with yr issues but why not just use a different browser. Firefox, Chrome etc?

m4cc45 · 1 May 2009 at 18:11

Sounds like the update went wrong.

System Restore to a prior ?

J.B · 2 May 2009 at 00:43

Id try rolling back to 7 then do the update again.

Mel_P · 3 May 2009 at 19:44

Just installed IE8 - seems soooo much sloowweeeerrrrr?

Dano · 3 May 2009 at 22:59

Mel_P said:
Just installed IE8 - seems soooo much sloowweeeerrrrr?

Indeed, slow as a slow thing on a slow day during slow week of slow month in the chinese year of the slow

Zillio · 3 May 2009 at 23:17

IE 8 flies on my comp

Mel_P · 3 May 2009 at 23:33

Swat it then?

Big Chris · 4 May 2009 at 18:57

Mel_P said:
Just installed IE8 - seems soooo much sloowweeeerrrrr?

I'm having the same problem, its takes a good 5 seconds to even open having clicked the icon, then another few seconds at least to load the homepage.

IE7 did the lot in a second or so.

Is it easy enough to go back to IE7?

Plec · 4 May 2009 at 20:38

Yep same problem plus I cannot open more than 7 pages at a time. Seems to be a common problem from searches so i'm downloading firefox as i type.

ThundyCat · 4 May 2009 at 20:52

Plec said:
Yep same problem plus I cannot open more than 7 pages at a time. Seems to be a common problem from searches so i'm downloading firefox as i type.

+1 already have Firefox installed.

Big Chris · 4 May 2009 at 21:57

I never really got on with Firefox, IE7 was fine for me so I've gone back to that until they've ironed out the problems with IE8.

Does make you wonder how it made it through testing with such an obvious flaw though...

Dano · 4 May 2009 at 23:49

Big Chris said:
I'm having the same problem, its takes a good 5 seconds to even open having clicked the icon, then another few seconds at least to load the homepage.

IE7 did the lot in a second or so.

Is it easy enough to go back to IE7?

Tabs are just as bad too.

In Vista to remove: Control Panel > Programs & Features > View Installed Updates and select it from there for uninstallation.

Mel_P · 5 May 2009 at 09:39

Just "removed" IE8 - IE7 much faster. IE8 no go for me on XP unless it is changed!

ThundyCat · 5 May 2009 at 12:01

Dano said:
Tabs are just as bad too.

In Vista to remove: Control Panel > Programs & Features > View Installed Updates and select it from there for uninstallation.

I went to do this but Windows warned me that I had already done a security update IE8 before hand.

So cancelled.

TC

Mel_P · 5 May 2009 at 15:41

Thundycat said:
I went to do this but Windows warned me that I had already done a security update IE8 before hand.

So cancelled.

TC

So did mine - it just says this update won't be applicable to IE7 effectively. Uninstalled and now back to IE7 - faster.