From my IT support perspective with my other clients, I've been having a fair amount of troubles with IE8 so I've recommended that people not install it for this very reason. When some calls me and sez they are getting a "script not responding" message, 9.5 times out of 10, they have recently updated to ie8 and the website that worked before for them is now choking on ie8... I hate it when MS changes the bar for their own designs, you would think getting sued in two continents would make them realize... I'll not go there!

So @michaelk I would uninstall ie8 before you get to many updates that are dependent on it and you'll never get it off!

@Convergent... I too use IE only when I have to.. and I have to less and less since I installed "IE tab" add on in my Firefox. It allows you to use the IE rendering engine in a Firefox tab... its cool.
Mark

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