I've been using IE8 since RC & now RTM. I had a few issues with the RC (mostly around unresponsive tabs & the compatibility of websites), but after installing the RTM, I've not yet had any issues like I did with the RC. I also have yet to see any issues that you're describing.
What I don't like about Task Manager is you can't see the processes in a hierarchal manner...for that Process Explorer is great. So, when you kill one in Task Manager, you don't know if you're killing the parent process, or a child process (e.g. tab). At least with Process Explorer, you can see which process is the parent & terminate appropriately. The most # of iexplore.exe processes I've seen has been 8 (one parent, 7 child as seen in Process Explorer). I had 3 separate IE windows with various number of tabs per window open to various websites (both internal & external). None of the IE windows/tabs had slowness & all respond quickly when switching to/from them. This is on my daily work laptop - Dell Latitude E5400, Vista Business x86 & 4GB ram - with all the usual office applications running. Scott Kaufman Lead Network Analyst ITT ESI, Inc. From: Murray Freeman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 3:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IE 8 SLOWNESS WHEN OPENING I reviewed Firefox 3, and have been impressed when compared to IE7, so when IE8 became available in final release, I installed it. Initially, I was very impressed by how quick it opened, but in the last couple of weeks, it's ridiculouly slow. In fact, it not only takes forever, but it's near impossible to shut it down. When I go into task manager, I find 2 IEexplore processes, yet under IE7 there was only one IEexplore process. So, I terminate one of the IE processes and both close, yet my machine then locks up and sometimes I have to reboot. Anybody have any ideas as to what is going on here? I'm testing both IE8 and Firefox with the idea of seklecting one for our office. Initially IE8 was opening faster than Firefox, but now Firefox is opening faster. I'm concerned that perhaps it's something on my machine, so I do not want to make a decision until I have all the facts. Murray ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
