Here's why IE8 crashes

IE8

Virtually every session of IE8 results in a crash. (98% crash rate) God forbid if I tell it to restart a session as I hit the BSD. My system is 64 bit Vista 2 months old. Firefox didn't fair any better. I couldn't shut it down thru task manager. Even tho it wasn't running, TM listed it as a running app. A forced reboot was the only way to terminate it. My 2 cents worth is neither one is worth having. Hard to believe that 25 plus years of development and no one can get a damn browser to work right.

Microsoft's Standards

I can't even get IE8 to load, it says "Connecting..." for forever. I cant even use the close button to exit it, i have to go into Task Manager to terminate the process.

Microsoft must be in short supply when it comes to decent programers, guess there might be a job opening? o_O
(I mean c'mon, how can u stuff up an web browser program? Seriously!)

IE8

I crashed on the IE8 download, only my system won't reboot past the Dell opening page. Can't get to F12 or setup or anything. what now?

IE8 sold me on FireFox

With the continual problems with IE8, one of which included blocking me from accessing a university login to download tech class lectures, I finally threw in the towel and moved to FireFox as my main browser. I don't see IE8 as progress -- unless regularly having to restart and having your browser control your access is what you are looking for.

>Firefox, which I'd used a bit before, has been great. Thanks MS, I would never have made the transition had you not produced such a backwards product as IE8.

RE: IE8 changing security settings automatically

I have just installed IE8 and am not pleased. The settings in advanced, especially security, get automatically switched. I switch back to DEFAULT and its fine for a while, then the browswer starts acting up, not allowing entrance to sites, and I check........advanced settings are changed. I changed to IE8 cause IE7 was doing the same things.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Frustrated.

IE8 Major Issue

I just loaded IE8 onto my work laptop. I am really kicking myself now for not doing a little research. Now, I cannot even get to the internet. I am not sure what to do as the control panel will not open either so I cannot uninstall. Anybody have any ideas on what to do here?

IE8 blows

At first I didn't notice some of the things that weren't right, but from it shutting down after every download, to not saving my settings on the homepage, it definately has issues. I guess I'm alittle surprised that one microsoft product won't play well with another microsoft product. I unistalled IE8 and now IE7 shares the same issues. I may try to uninstall again and then system restore to back before I ever loaded IE8 and see if that helps. Otherwise I may be looking at Firefox.

IE8 started out good for me,

IE8 started out good for me, it was fast and stable.
That lasted all of 1 week, it is now the WORST browser in my fleet. I can't stand it anymore.
It constantly crashes when loading pages (wanting to send the report etc etc, what a waste of time and space).
And worse... it looses all your Cookies each day!!!!

So after being forced to, i know use Google Chrome and it is quite good after you spend some time with it.
It's way way way faster, never crashes and opens multiple pages without any hesitation at all.

IE8 has been a MASSIVE STEP BACKWARDS for microsoft.

I'm normally not a microsoft basher, but this product shouldn't of even been released.
IE7 was better and thats not saying much

By golly, I think you're right

I seldom use IE, but I need it for various Microsoft sites I log into. I'm using IE8 at home because we have multiple vendors with IE browser based apps that have no idea when they can support IE8.

My experience has not been good. IE8 crashes repeated for the brief time I have it open. I run Vista Ultimate SP2 and I like my sidebar. Closed it when I read this article, surfed all over the place, especially at the Microsoft sites which crash all the time. No crashes with the Sidebar closed.

Sad commentary - I'm sure there are two different teams who do sidebar versus IE at Microsoft and they must never talk to each other. You figured this out, why can't they?

Is anyone running Windows 7 and IE8? Same problems?