IE8 is SLOWWWWWW

soccerdad · 2009-05-27, 11:58 PM

I took the bait and let windows update install IE8. Instantly my internet experience dropped to dead slow. What a hog! I know many don't even use IE, but I still do on most machines out of laziness. Anyway, unless you have a hot machine, I would not suggest going to it. This is on my A64 X2 3600+ box with 3 gig of ram which is not really a slug. Then it does not show up in programs to uninstall, but microsoft has a quick utility to roll back to IE7. I bet they get a lot of takers on that utility. :eek:

InVermont · 2009-05-28, 03:03 PM

Funny, I've had the exact opposite experience. IE8 is quite snappy, even on the P4 2ghz with 1GB of RAM I use as a test bed.
It is certainly faster then FireFox on any machine I use, but I tend to have lots and lots of plugins in FF, so it probably not a fair test.

I'd check around. Sound like your running into some kind of an issue.

observer_11 · 2009-05-28, 09:18 PM

Safari or Google Chrome for speed

fla · 2009-05-29, 02:00 AM

I use Firefox most of the time and IE8 some of the time (90% vs 10%). When on my Mac at work I use Safari. For all the sites I use, all browsers are all fast enough with no perceptible delays. Since I don't notice any delays, all the fuss about javascript benchmarks is meaningless to me.