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#1 2009-01-26 9:43 pm
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IE8 RC1 near release
Microsoft is "about to release" the first release candidate for Internet Explorer 8, according to a Wednesday blog post.
"We're about to release [IE8 RC1] for Windows Vista and Windows XP," wrote Microsoft's Frank Olivier, a user experience program manager.
He provided few details on what RC1 might entail. He mentioned it in a larger blog post about rendering problems on whitehouse.gov while using IE8 on Windows 7 Beta.
"If you open the newly redesigned whitehouse.gov in Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 Beta, you'll notice that the drop-down menus don't hide correctly when you hover over other menu items," Olivier wrote.
Problems are occurring because the version of IE8 included in the Windows 7 Beta is older than the RC1 that will be released for Vista and XP, he said.
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#2 2009-01-27 4:51 am
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Re: IE8 RC1 near release
I installed IE8 last night. No discernible changes from IE7, still an unusably smurfed up piece of smurf.
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#3 2009-03-14 4:39 pm
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Re: IE8 RC1 near release
Against my better judgement I installed IE8RC1 again. It is kind of slow and easily confused but it is usable. After a couple hours of tweaking it actually works quite well, aside from MicroSoft's completely useless tabbed browsing implementation - I had to turn that off. Overall IE8 seems no worse than the increasingly twitchy, annoying and unreliable mess Firefox has become with version 3. I'll try it for a while and see how it holds up.
On the down side, IE8 takes over the email link in the Start menu. When I try to launch the Windows Live Mail client via the "E-Mail" link at the top of the Start menu it launches IE8 instead. I wouldn't mind so much if web mail didn't suck. I just disabled the E-Mail link and put in my own for the WLM client and it works fine. Overall, the Start menu is kind of borked so I hope the whole thing is just the normal bugginess of pre-release software.
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#4 2009-03-14 6:35 pm
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Re: IE8 RC1 near release
Well, the great IE experiment is over. I can't make myself live with it, just too many basic design flaws. I tried rolling back to IE7 and it is just as bad. No matter how hard I try there is just no way I can live IE.
I went back to Firefox 3, as annoying as it is. I'd like to give up on that and go back to FF2 but abandon-ware with no security updates just doesn't seem like a good idea. I'll just have to live with the problems and hope Firefox 4 or 5 is better.
At least I did manage to get the Start menu link for Windows Live Mail working again. I still can't add anything to the start menu but things are working OK for now. A simple reformat and reinstall should clean up the rest of the mess whenever I get around to it.
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#5 2009-03-14 9:14 pm
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Re: IE8 RC1 near release
test wrote:
At least I did manage to get the Start menu link for Windows Live Mail working again. I still can't add anything to the start menu but things are working OK for now. A simple reformat and reinstall should clean up the rest of the mess whenever I get around to it.
Pin to Start Menu doesn't work?
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#6 2009-03-14 10:30 pm
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Re: IE8 RC1 near release
Pin to Start Menu works but doesn't create that nice icon at the top of the Start menu labeled "Email" in bold type with the app name in regular type on a second line. That link, created when you configure the Start menu via the "Taskbar and Start Menu" control panel, somehow got tied to IE. I poked around and found a check box buried in the "Default Programs" application which tied the Start menu item back to WLM, as long as I leave the corresponding option blank in the control panel blank. Very odd. Whatever, things are mostly working now. I suspect I probably changed some setting somewhere else while trying do make IE do something exotic like load a web page or download a file. I'm sure I'll figure it out.
Too bad IE has to be so weird and make everything so difficult.
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#7 2009-03-14 11:38 pm
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Re: IE8 RC1 near release
test wrote:
Pin to Start Menu works but doesn't create that nice icon at the top of the Start menu labeled "Email" in bold type with the app name in regular type on a second line. That link, created when you configure the Start menu via the "Taskbar and Start Menu" control panel, somehow got tied to IE. I poked around and found a check box buried in the "Default Programs" application which tied the Start menu item back to WLM, as long as I leave the corresponding option blank in the control panel blank. Very odd. Whatever, things are mostly working now. I suspect I probably changed some setting somewhere else while trying do make IE do something exotic like load a web page or download a file. I'm sure I'll figure it out.
Too bad IE has to be so weird and make everything so difficult.
If you go to the Taskbar and Start Menu properties and click the Customize... button, you can change the Email link (look at the bottom), which is what you're talking about I think.
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#8 2009-03-15 12:40 am
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Yep, as long as I don't mess with the Customize settings things are OK. If I actually select WLM there the link launches IE. If I leave it un-checked and set it to WLM with Default Programs it works fine. You'd think it should just be 2 ways of flipping the same bits but I guess not. I don't know, weird smurf happens with these contraptions sometimes.
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