Anyone try IE 5.5 beta yet?

[Brian R.]

Well?

[Guyver]

Been running on it for quite some time yet. Appears to be more stable than IE5.0 by far, and faster.

Only trouble I've had is with Web sites that read your browser version and explicitly look for version #'s. Ie 4.0, 5.0, and claimed that I needed to upgrade to reach a compatible level. (Banks are picky that way aren't they.)

Hope this didn't muddy the proverbial waters.

Guyver

[Brian R.]

Thanks for the input. What OS did you load it into?

[Hunsow]

I've been running it with Win2k and I didn't notice any difference besides some annoying bugs and instability. I did a complete reinstall of Win2k and I'm glad to get rid of it.

[Neomagic_Twist]

Tried it on Windows 98 First Edition, Second Edition, and Windows 2000. It sucked on all of them. Not as stable, weird things happening, not any faster IMHO, not worth your time really.

[cjolley]

It does one strange thing for(to?) me.
It prints web pages from last to first.
This is great for color inkjet printers where otherwise the pages come out collated backwards.
However, I have a laser printer that collates pages correctly to start with.
This causes the pages to come out of my printer last-on-top.
I can't find any way to turn this behavior off.
chuck

It's not a bug, it's a feature!

[Jammrock]

IE 5.5 is a good browser, if you like IE, but it does have some stability problems. I run it at work on Win2k and every once in a while IE will lock up for upwards of a minute. Can't do anything in any IE browser window, then all of a sudden it works again. It's wierd. Besides that it works fine.

Jammrock

[Guyver]

I've run it under 98SE, and W2K. Have not experienced any of the reported problems others have had. But everyone's computer experience is in some way or other unique...

Guyver

[isochar]

Jammrock,

That lockup you're having sounds exactly like what I've been experiencing with my IE5 on Win2k. Maybe Win2k is the culprit?

[DosFreak]

No probs here with IE5.5 and NT5.

[C=64]

I've been having IE lock up on me too under W2k... but on 5, not 5.5. I traced it back to the AutoCompletion stuff, so whenever it happened, I cleared out the stored autocompletion information (which took A WHILE to do) and everything was peachy (till the next time the autocompletion info deemed it necessary to become corrupted again). Maybe this is what's happening with you guys?

As for me, I just gave up completely on autocompletion. The lockups were happening *way* too frequently.

C=64

[kewlcat]

About the Auto COmpletion thing,

its a known bug. IE stores completion data in a Personal STorage Serice database, and it gets corrupted once in a while. Restoring the database should fix things. Knowledge Base search on "Personal Storage"...

Btw, affects Win9x/2000...

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Abit BP6, Dual Celeron 366@550, G400 32MB DualHead, 256MB RAM, WD26500 6.4GB, SBLive! Value.
Running Mandrake 7.0 and Windows 2000.

[C=64]

Thanks for the info kewlcat. I did a search for "Personal Storage" on the knowledge base, but none of the 128 articles seemed relevant. Would you be willing to go into more detail on the solution to this problem?

C=64

[Surfwienix]

NETSCAPE FOREVER !!!

[Paulr]

Well....
Netscape would be great if it didn't have trouble displaying valid HTML tags