Odd behavior of Windows 7 and IE8

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djchapple

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I have two fairly similar Acer Aspire laptops and originally both were running Vista Home premium.

As I had tried the early beta version of Windows 7 I was offered a cheap (£49) copy of Windows 7 Home Premium. It arrived yesterday and I have now done a completely clean installation of it on one of the Acer laptops, It's too early to offer any real comparisons.

One early problem is with EBay.

With the laptop running Vista Home Premium and Firefox I can get onto EBay and then onto the page where I can enter details of the item to be sold. No problems

With the other Acer laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium and using IE8 I can get onto EBay and the to the first page where I enter a title for the item to be sold. When I try to get to the page where I enter the full details I get the message "Page or feature you are attempting to access is not responding".

If I then use Firefox I get through OK.

What settings do I need to adjust with IE8 to get it to work OK?
 
Statistically speaking IE8 does show faster in some scenarios for Windows 7. However, I'll have to concur with the folks above this post. Disable it, remove it. Windows 7 is the first OS where you can pretty much get IE the hell off your system. For the quickest imho, use Opera 10 with Turbo boost. Judging by your system, turbo will probably never turn on (Because it just creates a text-only page while the images are loading for your browsing convenience) but it is so much faster than Chrome, FF, or IE8. And it's not like it's lacking features like Chrome. A built-in password manager, speed dial (Arguably the best feature. It allows you to basically start on a home page where you have Google search and 9 thumbnails of sites that you visit either most frequently or ones you designate.) I have used them all, Firefox is only good for it's add-ons but let me tell you. Sometimes you want a good browser, not fifty add-ons.

Good luck!
 
To be fair, most of the popular browsers being used right now are within seconds of each other in terms of performance.

IE8 is just too buggy for me. It's worse than IE7 imo.
 
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