I won't be leaving Opera anytime soon.
I was just checking out IE8, and it's not for me.

Can I customize the right click menus? No.
Can I move things around to my liking? No.
Does it have a built-in email client? No.
Can I add custom buttons, and functions? No.
Does it have a password manager that compares to Opera? No.
Can I get to site preferences with a simple right click? No.
Does it have "Paste and Go"? No.

For these and quite a few other reasons, I'll stick with Opera.

Pages don't fully load until you refresh them a few times sometimes, still very unusable.

i have not seen a page yet not load.

I haven't tried the new porn browser version of IE yet. I'll have to think about it.

My question is simple, how does it work with Impulse and WC/Stardock home pages?

I think I will be giving this a try today seeing I use IE7 as my browser.

Yeah I know why not use one of the other browers, because IE has always worked for me.

  

Since there isn't a porn browser version of IE, I'm not surprised you haven't tried it.

 

I admit I'll miss Paste and Go but in general IE just has more usability than Opera.  If nothing else, simply because the plugin writers and web developers take it seriously.  Now that IE has actually made a push on performance I can see going back to it.

I couldn't read any threads here on the WC forums. The page would appear, then go blank.

Errmm.... why do I think "bloatware"......
It's a browser, not a Swiss armyknife.

(PS. it's just a beta)

These forums are working fine for me in Impulse, I haven't tried externally...but there's a Compatibility Mode button for anything that isn't working right.

 

As for password manager, yes IE has one, even if it doesn't operate the same way.  My email is in mainly on the Gmail site so I don't have all that crap cluttering my hard drive...but I do use the Windows Live Mail desktop client for my other email account.

 

Yarr.  It's been a while since I've been impressed by IE, even if 7 was a major upgrade for security.

That's kinda funny... a mod at at customization site calling a customizable browser bloatware. The download is around 4 MB for Opera. IE8 is 16MB, and then downloads more during install... which one sounds like bloatware now?

TXpatriot huggles the swiss army-knife of browsers.

regarding the forums threads appearing and then vanishing, then that happens, go to the Tools button and choose Compatibility View from the drop-down menu. the forum thread will then appear.

My thoughts?
FF3 with the ie plugin and several others like stealthier fox, faster fox...etc.
Why?
MUCH faster, uses open code, and it ain't Microsoft.

Amazes me that Impulse went with ie7....wait one....the Vista deal with MS...oh well...

Snidely: when Zu gets the splel chceekr you should maybe get the grammar checker:

Yeah that was a joke stemming from.....



WWW Link

doc, i was half asleep when making both of those posts. i'm so ashamed. i'll be alright after my nap.

Stardock already explained why they used IE7.  It can be easily embedded in an application, and FF can't.

And it's hard to honestly say 'MUCH faster' when you haven't even tried the alternative, isn't it?