Here's why IE8 crashes

ie8 caused Firefox to crash

ie8 crashed every time I tried to open an attachment in webmail. I downloaded Firefox and had the same problem with it. When I uninstalled ie8, Firefox started working flawlessly. Anyone know why an ie8 crashing issue would affect Firefox?

IE8 is okay

I've installed IE8 on my desktop and a Netbook. Both run Windows XP. No problems so far. Its faster than IE7 and I like it :-)

Seriously MS?

For all you flamers out there against Firefox (Foxfire as some of you call it,) Opera, Chrome, and Safari, get out off your MS pedastal and open yourself up to something that WORKS. Something that you don't need a blog to write about how much it fails. I have used every browser to come out since Samba on Mac some 15+ years ago. Not one has failed so hard and consistently as IE. I see a lot of you saying that other browsers are not 'user friendly' and they are 'bulky' along with other such nonsense. Do yourself a favor, go download Mozilla Firefox, and keep IE6 around as a 'backup.' Granted you won't need it. As I sit here now, IE6 is the most stable IE to be release, as long as you get hotfixes and such By the way, I don't even have IE on my machine. I always install the new versions, to see what's up, but am always thoroughly disappointed.
Internet explorer is a plague and should be replaced with something more minimal and less buggy. Google Chrome has been out for less than a year and is extremely more stable and useful than IE, a browser going on it's 15th year of development? Anyways, IE is terrible, and my personal suggestion is for everyone to get out of their MS box and jump off the MS failboat. Take care.

I rarely use the sidebar. It

I rarely use the sidebar. It freezes up daily anyway on at least 2 or more websites. No particurlar ones. Very annoying. Have not noticed it freezing when using the sidebar.

No IE8 Problems Here (Vista-64)

I have been using IE8 with Vista x64, ever since it was officially released, and haven't had any real problems.

I haven't tried the Web Slice feature.

I rarely use it, but have Firefox installed on my system as an emergency backup.

i am using IE8 with Windows

i am using IE8 with Windows 7 and i feel IE 8 is ok.. but as u said it crashes often, not in all occasions.. i am using IE8 for the past 2-3 months its ok..

IE8 it's a pain in the f...king a..s!!!

just like some other people in this forum i got IE8 through automatic updates and because it was late at night i cliked to shut down the computer when it finished. spent the day at work and when i got back and turned on my laptop i got the blue screen of death!
i tried booting my pc with the last valid configuration without success. im still trying to understand why this has happened... at the momment im using a kenopix version of linux on cd to gather information regarding why my windows crashed and how to restore it. i forgot to mention but one of the boot options was the system restore which gave me a beautiful blue screen as well!
cheers and wish me luck! =(

I.E. 8

Try disabling all of your addons then see if I.E. 8 crashes.

Tools > Manage Add-ons

If it settles down, re-enable one at a time until you find the culprit. The addons are usually the problem. Cheers! :)