Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 8 RC1

(8 replies) #1 +Chrono951 on 26 Jan 2009 - 18:41

Awesome, downloading this now!

Edit: I also love all the Google Chrome ads on this page! lol

#1.1 FusionOpz on 26 Jan 2009 - 18:48

Haha!

#1.2 +Odom on 26 Jan 2009 - 19:26

Chrono951 said,

I also love all the Google Chrome ads on this page! lol

+1 just noticed that

#1.3 GreyWolfSC on 26 Jan 2009 - 19:30

Yeah, that's the way AdSense works. :|

#1.4 rakeshishere on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:48

huh... what ads? Firefox + Adblock Plus FTW

#1.5 rm20010 on 26 Jan 2009 - 22:02

Oh.... yeah. Christ. :/

Damn Google.

#1.6 +s.L.m on 27 Jan 2009 - 11:56

rakeshishere said,

huh... what ads? Firefox + Adblock Plus FTW

+1

#1.7 +Techno_Funky on 27 Jan 2009 - 18:14

+2

#1.8 bmaher on 30 Jan 2009 - 21:36

Guys, please check the "Adblockers" thread in Neowin Site Announcements for future reference.

(3 replies) #2 SithToast on 26 Jan 2009 - 18:52

Surprise! This doesn't work with Windows 7!
Run it without any compatibility and it tells you that the OS is not supported.
Run it in Vista mode and you get a message telling you that there is a newer version of IE already installed!

#2.1 Beastage on 26 Jan 2009 - 18:58

Cause the IE in build 7000 is not Beta 2

#2.2 GreyWolfSC on 26 Jan 2009 - 19:31

That was on the front page last week.

This build doesn't have the code for the new 7 UI features apparently so it doesn't work.

#2.3 +TCLN Ryster on 26 Jan 2009 - 19:37

You expected otherwise SithToast?

(3 replies) #3 PlayForPleasure on 26 Jan 2009 - 19:25

IE8 ist the most unstable component in Windows 7 Build 7000. I hope IE8 will also be available for W7 too.

#3.1 +WindowsNT on 26 Jan 2009 - 19:38

IE8 for Windows 7 will only be updated when a new build of Windows 7 is made available. Be patient.

#3.2 +TCLN Ryster on 26 Jan 2009 - 19:38

IE8 is included in W7 build 7000, it's just an older build. You'll need to wait for the next build of Windows 7 to get updated IE8 builds. Of course that means those people who took advantage of the preview program to download Windows 7 will probably be stuch on the same build of IE8 until the OS gets released later this year.

#3.3 bbfc_uk on 27 Jan 2009 - 18:37

No builds are available for Windows 7 and it's expected Windows 7 beta testers will receive an updated build with the RC1 components some time next month

Does the article mean MS will be releasing an update to IE8 for Windows 7 or not until the Windows 7 RC?

#4 eder00 on 26 Jan 2009 - 19:25

downloading to try it....

(1 reply) #5 kiddingguy on 26 Jan 2009 - 19:29

... any comments so far about IE8 (faster, better, friendlier etc)?

#5.1 GP007 on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:45

Just finished installing it, on an old PC here, XP SP3. So far it feels faster, new tabs are opening quicker for me. And a quick look at task manager, ram usage also seems to have been reduced.

I just started though, so memory usage might spike higher, dunno.

The websites i've visited so far are working fine without the need for compatibility view as well.

#6 sharp65 on 26 Jan 2009 - 19:29

It's probably not being released for the beta because the latest internal builds already have an updated version of IE according to their blog.

#7 darklordofthesith on 26 Jan 2009 - 19:36

i downloaded it about 30 miniutes ago and see a much faster internet explorer. It was moving so fast I even imported my firefox bookmarks to really test it. But so far so good!

#8 Skwerl on 26 Jan 2009 - 19:40

I've been awaiting this for a while, now! Big improvements have been made in IE8. I hope this will light a fire under some web developers' asses. Some web app sites I go to check to make sure the user is running IE6 or IE7, and refuse entry for anything newer.

(1 reply) #9 Imran Hussain on 26 Jan 2009 - 19:43

Can you please add to the news post that the download for Vista and Windows Server 2008 is the same?

#9.1 RebelSean on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:05

Imran Hussain said,

Can you please add to the news post that the download for Vista and Windows Server 2008 is the same?

Updated, thanks for the information

.

(3 replies) #10 Borimol on 26 Jan 2009 - 19:53

A shell Bug:

I can't understand why a RC version is soo bad...

#10.1 +Chrono951 on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:21

This may be related to the custom theme you are running, or not. I'm not totally sure if everyone is having this problem.

#10.2 GP007 on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:46

It's probably due to the theme, I also use a custom theme in XP and sometimes things get cut off in dialog boxes (text and such).

#10.3 CCoil on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:53

I first noticed misaligned buttons in Vista, and it continued in Win7-beta. I can't recall the circumstances, and a quick glance around Win7 shows button alignment is fine - maybe it's just the installer software that suffers from it.

Last edited by CCoil on 26 Jan 2009 - 21:06

(9 replies) #11 Ficman on 26 Jan 2009 - 19:54

Pass

#11.1 kiddingguy on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:02

Ficman said,

Pass

or do you wait for the final?

#11.2 Ficman on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:35

kiddingguy said,

or do you wait for the final?

I'll wait for IE 8 Service Patch 1

#11.3 +Kirkburn on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:41

Ficman said,

I'll wait for IE 8 Service Patch 1

Riiight.

#11.4 mclaren05 on 26 Jan 2009 - 21:15

Ficman said,

I'll wait for IE 8 Service Patch 1

What the **** is that?

#11.5 Antaris on 26 Jan 2009 - 21:18

Ficman said,

I'll wait for IE 8 Service Patch 1

Don't people get tired of the same old jokes?

#11.6 Ficman on 26 Jan 2009 - 21:20

Kirkburn said,

Riiight.

No Really I wouldn't touch this at least until the first major release of patches for it... Good Lord.. MS couldn't fix IE 7, load up a beta IE 8...

Run Forest Run in my book

#11.7 Ficman on 26 Jan 2009 - 21:22

mclaren05 said,

What the **** is that?

Sorry Service PACK for IE 8...

#11.8 Ficman on 26 Jan 2009 - 22:33

Antaris said,

Don't people get tired of the same old jokes?

Who's joking?

#11.9 excalpius on 27 Jan 2009 - 01:36

I think he was referring to YOU as the "same old joke".

(2 replies) #12 bestbuy on 26 Jan 2009 - 19:57

I'm on vista x64 and only the 64bit version works...32bit one doesn't start :s
Already tried the reset button in Internet Options.

Any way to uninstall?

#12.1 GreyWolfSC on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:00

The IE8 updates should be located under Control PanelPrograms and Features. on the Tasks pane click "View installed updates".

#12.2 bestbuy on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:02

Thanks!

(13 replies) #13 thealexweb on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:06

It gets 20 / 100 on the Acid 3 test, for Microsoft that's very good.

#13.1 Jugalator on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:34

Haha.

Hopefully IE 9 will do better then. At least we get CSS 2.1, we have to be happy and put up with that for now. :p

#13.2 GP007 on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:48

Acid 3 was never what the team was looking at, only Acid 2 which IE8 passes now.

After but if it's at 20 now with RC1, I suppose by final it could be higher, maybe 30?

But it was never a goal to pass Acid 3 which in itself doesn't matter much either.

#13.3 thealexweb on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:53

GP007 said,

Acid 3 was never what the team was looking at, only Acid 2 which IE8 passes now.

After but if it's at 20 now with RC1, I suppose by final it could be higher, maybe 30?

But it was never a goal to pass Acid 3 which in itself doesn't matter much either.

No RC means this build could well be the RTM, IE8 is now feautre complete. There will be nothing new now.

#13.4 excalpius on 26 Jan 2009 - 21:56

No one on Earth gives a crap about the stupid Acid tests. Get over it.

#13.5 thealexweb on 26 Jan 2009 - 22:05

excalpius said,

No one on Earth gives a crap about the stupid Acid tests. Get over it.

It's clear excalpius your not a web developer.

#13.6 GP007 on 27 Jan 2009 - 01:20

That's for features right, but support is a different matter. If there is a bug or something not right in the rendering engine MS will work on it. Just because they won't add new "features" doesn't mean the rendering engine has stopped where it is now.

#13.7 excalpius on 27 Jan 2009 - 01:38

Um, web developers as a whole don't give a crap about the Acid tests either...

PS it's YOU'RE when you mean YOU ARE.

#13.8 Jugalator on 27 Jan 2009 - 10:28

Acid 3 was never what the team was looking at

That is quite obvious.

No one on Earth gives a crap about the stupid Acid tests. Get over it.

Heh, and here I was thinking it's brought up for pretty much every browser release.

Anyway, good web devs that want e.g. DOM parsing behavior to be standardized across browsers, more important the more advanced web services that are being built, will care about Acid3 compliance.

#13.9 LTD on 27 Jan 2009 - 13:33

Still???

#13.10 2Cold Scorpio on 27 Jan 2009 - 13:53

thealexweb said,

It's clear excalpius your not a web developer.

Well, *I'm* a web developer, and I don't give a crap about Acid 3.

#13.11 LTD on 27 Jan 2009 - 13:56

2Cold Scorpio said,

Well, *I'm* a web developer, and I don't give a crap about Acid 3.

Then you . . . don't care about your viewers?

#13.12 Magallanes on 27 Jan 2009 - 14:45

I AM a web developer since eons and still i don't give a freaking crap about acid3 or any acid test. If works for ie6,i7 and firefox2 and 3 is just enough for 97% of my customer and, for corporate level, if work in ie6 and 7 is fine for 100% of my customers.

For me, iexplorer is the standard not the w3c.

#13.13 excalpius on 28 Jan 2009 - 10:17

Acid is just another ****ing contest fought over by the 8 web developers who give a crap. The users and the rest of us do not.

(1 reply) #14 pjak on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:07

looks like a couple of links are missing on the above article...

Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 for Windows Server 2003 SP2

Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 for Windows Server 2003 SP2 64-bit Edition or Windows XP Professional 64-bit Edition

#14.1 RebelSean on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:16

pjak said,

looks like a couple of links are missing on the above article...

Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 for Windows Server 2003 SP2

Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 for Windows Server 2003 SP2 64-bit Edition or Windows XP Professional 64-bit Edition

Added

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(3 replies) #15 Typhoon87 on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:22

Can you install over top of beta 2 for vista?

#15.1 GP007 on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:50

I dunno about vista, but for me on XP SP3 it just installed since you can't uninstall beta 2 after SP3. So I guess it's more like a upgrade.

You'll get a message saying something like, it can't uninstall IE, but just click ok.

If not don't worry, it saves your IE beta 2 stuff and will uninstall if needed.

#15.2 blu3f1sh on 26 Jan 2009 - 20:53

You can. I tried and it was flawless.

#15.3 Titoist on 26 Jan 2009 - 23:25

blu3f1sh said,

You can. I tried and it was flawless.

Yeah I just "upgraded", no problems here. I remember when IE7 Beta was a mess to install/uninstall.

#16 dlegend on 26 Jan 2009 - 21:03

RC1 now correctly renders .png images without the need of compatibility mode. Hurray!

#17 Anatolian on 26 Jan 2009 - 21:06

Yes, now we can try it, for free

(3 replies) #18 rdf8585 on 26 Jan 2009 - 21:46

Hmm... GMail loads fine, but the display is off... odd lines throughout my inbox. Anyone else have that?

#18.1 TekFan on 27 Jan 2009 - 05:15

Yeah. I'm also seeing those lines in Gmail. I thought it might've been one of the Labs feature not working properly with IE8 RC1 but now that you are reporting the same issue, it must be IE8 RC1.

#18.2 FusionOpz on 27 Jan 2009 - 07:27

Is gmail using any IE workarounds in the CSS? it might be cause by those workarounds...

#18.3 TekFan on 27 Jan 2009 - 15:27

FusionOpz said,

Is gmail using any IE workarounds in the CSS? it might be cause by those workarounds...

Not that I know of. From the looks of it, it appears that IE8 RC1 is loading Gmail in the new browser default settings. There's no Compatibility Mode setting.

(3 replies) #19 Soldiers33 on 26 Jan 2009 - 22:02

seems to work faster, hopefully it dont crash every 10 mins like beta 2

#19.1 Mystical112 on 26 Jan 2009 - 23:09

yeah that really got to be annoying...

does everyone else have 2 processes of IE running in their task manager??
(with only 1 window open)

#19.2 SM_Unlimited on 26 Jan 2009 - 23:24

Mystical112 said,

does everyone else have 2 processes of IE running in their task manager??
(with only 1 window open)

Yes. One process is used for the window itself then each extra process is for each tab. I think google chrome also does this as well.

Last edited by SM_Unlimited on 26 Jan 2009 - 23:35

#19.3 Mystical112 on 26 Jan 2009 - 23:46

SM_Unlimited said,

Mystical112 said,

does everyone else have 2 processes of IE running in their task manager??
(with only 1 window open)

Yes. One process is used for the window itself then each extra process is for each tab. I think google chrome also does this as well.

ah thanks...

(2 replies) #20 Pc_Madness on 26 Jan 2009 - 23:01

Good, now MS need to make it a required updated for all users (including businesses) and we can put this horrible mess behind us.

#20.1 KavazovAngel on 27 Jan 2009 - 00:26

That would be a good thing to do.

#20.2 excalpius on 27 Jan 2009 - 01:39

When it's actually finally released, of course...

#21 SM_Unlimited on 26 Jan 2009 - 23:29

Is the InPrivate filtering a new feature from the beta? Not to be mistaken with the InPrivate browsing. It seems to be an in built ad blocker.

(2 replies) #22 Shiranui on 27 Jan 2009 - 00:27

Will this let you install SP3 on top of it I wonder? I hope the final does.

My boss went and installed Beta 2 before upgrading to sp3 and now it won't install. I could uninstall beta 2 but I'm too lazy.

#22.1 GP007 on 27 Jan 2009 - 01:22

You have to uninstall beta 2 first and then install SP3 for XP, that's how I had to do it.

#22.2 excalpius on 27 Jan 2009 - 01:39

Get off your ass. It only takes a few minutes...sheesh.

(1 reply) #23 wrewing73 on 27 Jan 2009 - 02:46

Does anybody now how to get the Norton Internet Security 2009 toolbar to show again after I installed IE8 RC1?

#23.1 blu3f1sh on 27 Jan 2009 - 10:05

Maybe reinstall/repair Norton IS?

#24 Foub on 27 Jan 2009 - 10:24

I get an "Address Not Found" error when I try to download the XP sp2/3 version after clicking on the download button.

#25 bbfc_uk on 27 Jan 2009 - 18:35

Does the article mean MS will be releasing an update to IE8 for Windows 7 or not until the Windows 7 RC?

(1 reply) #26 T.W. on 28 Jan 2009 - 05:55

How to remove the ****ing idiotic 'Download Windows Search to improve history and favorites results' link when using the address bar?

#26.1 steppres on 10 Mar 2009 - 23:38

Run this command and it should be gone.

REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Search" /v CurrentVersion /t REG_SZ /d 99 /f

Last edited by steppres on 10 Mar 2009 - 23:51

#27 Co_Co on 29 Jan 2009 - 02:38

seems to break the webslices and accelerator previews. can't get them to work at all

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