IE8 tip

Noreen · Mar 27, 2009, 18:23:15

I saw this on American forum and thought that it might be of interest to those using IE8, I'm not.

QuoteEd Bott's latest blog re IE8 mentions a tweak important enough to advise all here in a separate post.

Got problems with endless spinning tabs and slow opening pages?

This might fix it:

From a Command Box run the following:

regsvr32 actxprxy.dll

As explained by Bott, "That re-registers the ActiveX Interface Marshaling Library, an obscure DLL that most people (even Microsoft experts) had never heard about. (Update: 27-Mar: Note that if you try this using Windows Vista, you must do this from an elevated Command Prompt window; type cmd in the Start menu Search box, right-click the Cmd.exe shortcut, and then choose Run As Administrator.)"

I advise reading the entire blog at Is IE8 really fat and slow? before trying the fix.

Rik · Mar 27, 2009, 18:28:11

Thanks, Noreen. I think I'll forgo the pleasure too.

Glenn · Mar 27, 2009, 18:35:34

Big tip - wait until MS fix the issues then use it

Rik · Mar 27, 2009, 18:39:03

Or wait until they fix the fix.

john · Mar 27, 2009, 20:24:10

I'm using IE8 but won't try the fix as I'm not experiencing any problems with it. However 'actxprxy.dll' is mentioned here

Den · Mar 27, 2009, 21:46:32

The same people that don't like Vista don't like IE8 without even trying it. I find it very smooth and responsive and so far can not find any thing I do not like.

If MS had brought out FF they would not have liked that either.

Glenn · Mar 27, 2009, 22:08:30

I use Vista, but find IE 8 slow. When MS put their mind to it they can come up with very good products, Windows Home Server being an example.

Gary · Mar 27, 2009, 23:16:37

I use vista and find IE8 slow, I like its features but it does not render as fast as FF but safety wise on Vista and Windows 7 for now its the safest browser for now, the hack test on IE8 last week was before the release had dep enabled by default on it, it would appear. I am giving it a good try out at the moment, but the slow javascript is a pain, but safety comes first and the privacy settings as standard are great, I doubt I'll keep it as my main browser, but speed is not everything, but also Microsoft should not be allowed to dictate web standards either when FF Opera etc abide by them. Its a shame they could not have made IE8 as fast as FF 3 then they would have had a killer browser on thier hands, but maybe people will see the features as more important, but next week that will all change as always in the browser wars

Sebby · Mar 27, 2009, 23:21:24

I saw this tip for IE8:

QuoteIf you're thinking about installing IE8, don't.

Sorry, couldn't resist. So who's using IE8 and what are your thoughts?

Gary · Mar 27, 2009, 23:36:46

Quote from: Sebby on Mar 27, 2009, 23:21:24
I saw this tip for IE8:

Sorry, couldn't resist. So who's using IE8 and what are your thoughts?

Its safer than Firefox for now, thats a good thing

on the whole its a great browser, web slices will be cool suggested sites I'm not bothered about, but the privacy, with inprivate filtering and also inprivate browsing, protection from cross scripting attacks well thats really useful in this day and age. The coloured coded tabs so you know which one is linked to which other is great, the fact that tested it was better at fighting off malware in protected mode on Vista and windows 7 by 79% compared with firefoxs 30% and IE7's 4 % shows the improvements they have made are a good move forward for people that will use it, and nothing else, also highlighting the doman is very useful, with a few tweaks for speed by MS and I think they will have a good brower to bring to the table at last, and the fact that if one tab crashes the others dont is very good as well, I am shocked to say I find it very useable, also highlihting a word gives you the chance to by clicking on the on page symbol to blog, map, email or search is also really useful. It just needs to be faster, and have a spell checker like FF.

Sebby · Mar 28, 2009, 00:08:53

I couldn't try it even if I wanted to. I'll just have to stick with unsafe Firefox and Safari!

Gary · Mar 28, 2009, 00:32:32

Quote from: Sebby on Mar 28, 2009, 00:08:53
I couldn't try it even if I wanted to. I'll just have to stick with unsafe Firefox and Safari!

Firefox is my main browser Sebby but for the market intended for IE8 it is a major improvement, the FF team get thier patches out fast and that counts for a lot, but IE8 will help the mainstream and even coax a few back to using it I might imagine, look out for FF 3.0.8 early next week to plug the critical hole in the browser for all platforms, thats faster than MS ever do things

Sebby · Mar 28, 2009, 00:33:51

I'm looking forward to Firefox 3.5. 8)

rgt247 · Mar 28, 2009, 03:48:58

Quote from: Sebby on Mar 28, 2009, 00:33:51
I'm looking forward to Firefox 3.5. 8)

your not alone ! So am i.

john · Mar 28, 2009, 05:33:40

I decided to try a rough speed test to try and compare FF 3.0.5 and IE8 so I opened both side by side and loaded the same web page. I first clicked a link in FF and as quickly as I could clicked on the same link in IE8. Both were fast but even though I clicked the link in IE8 last it still completed the opening of the new page before FF. Maybe I need to try it with lots more pages though.

I also tried the Idnetters home page to see if there was any difference in appearance but as far as I could tell they were identical. However when I clicked on "Show unread posts since your last visit" in FF it said there were no unread topics found whereas in IE8 it displayed a list of 19 topics.

Gary · Mar 28, 2009, 07:46:38

Quote from: Sebby on Mar 28, 2009, 00:33:51
I'm looking forward to Firefox 3.5. 8)

When it comes

hopefully sooner rather than later, its been delayed so many times

Mozilla got that security patch out very fast, beating everyone's expectations

Gary · Mar 28, 2009, 07:48:32

Quote from: john on Mar 28, 2009, 05:33:40
I decided to try a rough speed test to try and compare FF 3.0.5 and IE8 so I opened both side by side and loaded the same web page. I first clicked a link in FF and as quickly as I could clicked on the same link in IE8. Both were fast but even though I clicked the link in IE8 last it still completed the opening of the new page before FF. Maybe I need to try it with lots more pages though.

I also tried the Idnetters home page to see if there was any difference in appearance but as far as I could tell they were identical. However when I clicked on "Show unread posts since your last visit" in FF it said there were no unread topics found whereas in IE8 it displayed a list of 19 topics.

Try pages which are graphics intensive, or web 2 based with a ton of ajax and see if they open at the same rate. $:-\$

Simon · Mar 28, 2009, 08:54:04

Quote from: john on Mar 28, 2009, 05:33:40I also tried the Idnetters home page to see if there was any difference in appearance but as far as I could tell they were identical. However when I clicked on "Show unread posts since your last visit" in FF it said there were no unread topics found whereas in IE8 it displayed a list of 19 topics.

That's probably something to do with you being logged in simultaneously with two different browsers, John, and the cookies getting confused.

Steve · Mar 28, 2009, 09:57:50

Just googled how to destroy a hard drive. One tip suggested 1. Install Windows 2. Then install IE

I think since both of these suggestions have failed I will use a lump hammer.

Rik · Mar 28, 2009, 10:03:02

It's my favourite technique, Steve, or a pair of bolt cutters for small drives.

Lance · Mar 28, 2009, 10:54:00

What, less than 160gb?

Rik · Mar 28, 2009, 10:58:31

I was thinking more of 1".

Glenn · Mar 28, 2009, 11:11:25

I ordered a 160Gb drive for a workstation from HP this week at work, it was a standard SATA drive with an HP part number sticker on it, how much?

£183.00

Rik · Mar 28, 2009, 11:15:39

I thought the board was broken for a moment.

That is just taking the Michael, isn't it.

Sebby · Mar 28, 2009, 11:44:06

Ouch, there's no justification for that kind of price. Did you have to get it from HP?