3 responses to “Still have Internet Explorer 6 – what to do?”

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   sethness April 10th, 2009 at 12:48

   Upgrade to IE 7, yes, but leave IE8 well enough alone for at least a year.

   IE8 is getting good reviews, yes, but those’re shills, clacquers, bought-n-paid-for. A month ago, MS asked its employees (according to theregister.co.uk) to send out spam to at least 10 friends, telling them how much they liked IE8 and how well IE8 works with … a suggested list of sites.

   The problem is, a) IE8 screws up webpages constantly, and b) to work as IE8 is intended to work, IE8 requires an HTML tag be entered on the webpage being viewed. Webmasters have NOT complied, so most webpages give IE8 headaches.

   If I understand it correctly, that HTML tag tells IE8 whether to pretend to be www-standards-compatible or backwardly compatible with IE6.

   You can manually toggle between the two modes, but why bother? USE FIREFOX INSTEAD.

   Install IE7, and then leave it ALONE and use FireFox for all your browsing needs.

   For the rare banking website or Microsoft.com website that requires IE, you can even use a FireFox add-on called IE Tab or another called IE View that will automatically load up webpages that YOU designate into IE tabs or windows running WITHIN FIREFOX.

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   EP April 10th, 2009 at 23:47

   For those who have Visual Studio 2005 and/or 2008 software installed, IE8 can cause script errors with some VS2005 & VS2008 wizards.
   Read here for the solutions:
   http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2009/03/28/some-vs2005-and-vs2008-wizards-pop-up-script-error.aspx

   The IE8 package for XP does not include WGA, woody. it can be installed without the “genuine” verification.

   again, some addons & programs [like the Skype addon] will need to be updated to be compatible with IE8. check the IE8 release notes page on which addons & programs will be affected after installing IE8.

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   Mohammad Murphy April 29th, 2010 at 00:39

   Internet Explorer 8 is very good because it is as stable as Opera. I hate the previous versions of IE like IE6 because it hangs frequently. :