Thoughts about IE 5.5.......

[Prodigy^]

hmmm......first of all, I installed this on a Danish version of Win98SE, is this bad?

It seems to be kinda choppy on some pages, like the Anand forums.....

I like the way it marks text, it sticks less to that motherf*cking Word-ish way of marking whole words when you drags your mouse......

Grrrr......when I open a new window, it's always positioned in either the top left or right corner of the screen.....anyone else get this?

post your replies and thoughts please

 

[piku]

They make Windows 98 for people living in Dainard?

hehe

I really hate that whole word highlight thing too. Ticks me off, because 90% of the time I DONT want the whole fricken word.

Ill be downloading it in a little bit so I cant comment on any of the other things you mentioned.

 

[integlspwr]

5.5 made my broswer start up slower :|
Oh well.

 

[Terp]

Thoughts? I think it's Internet Explorer 5.0 with a new number to suggest a new and innovative version, which I am yet to discover! =)


I didn't notice a change in performance, nor any cosmetic changes...but that's just me; I could be wrong.

 

[Prodigy^]

this SUCKS!!!!!!!!! dammit, I used to have no problems at all, but now it's sickenly choppy at all larger sites! (p3 750, 320 ram) grrrrrrrrr! :| can't wait till i get a new HDD so i can do a reinstall of Windows and get rid of this 5.5 crap!

 

[Missus]

I've been running IE 5.5 beta for the last 3-4 months on my NT Server 4.0 and it is simply rocks!

It's seems faster than 5.01.

 

[RobSan]

5.5 on Windows 2000 at home and Windows 98 at work; both running great with no problems at all. Can't see much difference though.

Rob

 

[loup garou]

I'm with you Prodigy, 5.5 sucks on my system...I get an explorer crash every 5 minutes! :| Never happens with 5.0 If you've got Win2k you can revert to 5.0 painlessly. 5.5 is in the add/remove programs menu.

[edit]oops, just saw you were using w98...maybe it is unistallable in 98 too? [/edit]

 

[Hector13]

I remember trying out 5.5 beta a while ago.
I think the main changes were for developers.

For instance (I might be wrong about this), but I think IE 5.5 is the only browser that can render words vertically.
This might not seem like a big deal, but it makes table heading look much nicer and is a lot easier then creating JPGs labels.
If I am not mistaken there are other changes like this that you probably won't notice until people start using them.

 

[Olorin]

The only difference I see is that there's finally an actual print preview.

 

[Prodigy^]

hmmmmm well it might be my system....plus the fact that I installed an English version on my Danish OS really turned Windows into a hybrid with English here, Danish there

oh well, I'll reinstall windows soon and won't bother upgrading then

 

[Adul]

So how well does 5.5 adhere to web standards

 

[Lore]

I noticed that they modified the "viewer" part of the browser - that is, the part used by Eudora and probably other mail clients to process HTML coding in mail.

It's ugly now - Eudora displays everything in Times New Roman and I can't stand it. If anyone has any way of getting rid of that problem let me know.


[edit]: Okay I figured it out - for all interested parties, you go to TOOLS -> Internet Options -> click on FONTS on the bottom and select ARIAL or whatever you want.

This didn't use to be a problem in the old IE, I wonder why it bugs me now.

 

[BlueDeathscreen]

IE 5.5 is noticeably faster than 5.01 on my system (and my T1 connection). Good! And it CAN be uninstalled with moderate pain, but unfortunately you have to look deep in the Microsoft homepage to find out how. It can also be done via Windows Update, a.k.a. hell.
Here is another link too, if it complaints about missing files: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q259/1/73.asp

 

[apoppin]

I've been using IE5.5 Beta since it was first relaeased with no problems. In fact is is faster than 5.01 for me.

In Win 98SE IE5.5 asily be uninstalled with "Microsoft System Information." Under "tools" Click on "repair Internet Explorer" and "restore the previous windows configuration."

 

[apoppin]

I've been using IE5.5 Beta since it was first released with no problems. In fact is is faster than 5.01 for me.

In Win 98SE, IE5.5 can easily be uninstalled with "Microsoft System Information." Under "tools" Click on "repair Internet Explorer" and "restore the previous windows configuration."

 

[John]

I think I will stick with (Win2K) IE 5.01 sp1 for a while....

 

[Valhalla1]

I'm with John..
if it ain't broke, don't fix it!

 

[Sparky Anderson]

It's the same. Nothing new, nothing broke.

 

[Lore]

It seems to load pages slower than it used to - for example, the AnandTech forums show up a lot slower than before. Odd.

 

[fa28]

Downloaded 5.5 last night (not the beta). It crashes on me every 15 min or so (page default in mshtml.dll). This ver. isn't any faster for my system. When Itried to uninstall to previous ver. it went back to IE 4.x instead of 5.01 which was very stable for me. Tried a 2nd install of 5.5 and have the same crashes. Is there any way to download 5.01 to a file so it can be copied to a cd?

 

[Valnir]

As was said earlier 5.5 was mainly an upgrade for Web Developers (*like me, hehe*)

If I remember correctly it added more support for XML and more support for the new W3C standard XHTML 1.0 Haven't verified that cause haven't had the chance to play with it yet.

Now if only stupid Netscape would actually add support for XML or XHTML and more support for CSS I could actually think of using Netscape again.


I think the only difference a normal user will see is that there is a button for MSN Messager (*or at least there is in the beta version*)

 

[kendogg]

i agree with terp its another number change from ie5.0. It was the same as ie5.0 i dont notice a single difference from the two.