Do not install IE 8 beta

[markosf]

I had installed Internet Explorer 8 Beta for the touted new security features (god knows, IE needs help.) Much later, I discovered DVD Shrink was crashing without fail. Why these two programs should affect each other is beyond me, but apparently not beyond Microsoft. God knows what other programs IE8 f*cks up.

F*cking Microsoft.

Comments

[inkandpaintsf]

All us cool kids use Safari.

[markosf]

I had heard Safari on Windows was not a good choice.

[beg1n]

I downloaded 8 as well and got rid of it two days later. Once it's outta beta I'll try it again. Google Chrome wasn't much better.

[pdxchuck]

Sticking with Firefox. However, thanks for the warning.

[celtcub]

Yeah IE sucks balls, almost as bad as Safari.

Firefox FTW...

[zacwolfdotcom]

Contrary to what MS tried to say during the Anti-Trust cases, IE is considered "defacto" installed on Windows systems. As a result, any application that doesn't want to write their own HTML engine, actually leverages the IE DLLs.

Said another way, LOTS of 3rd party applications use IE as their rendering engine, meaning if you update IE, you're actually updating core functionality of many of your 3rd party apps.

This is why almost all "troubleshoots" starts with: Clear your IE cache, even when a problem seems to have nothing to do with IE...