… but every time I look it up under problems, I see that Vista owners are complaining about it, so I am staying with 7.
My question is: Recently Yahoo has been promoting it and recently, trying to open my mail, I have been getting messages that it can’t open the page and I should try going to yahoo (clickable link) and see if that works. Is this because I’m still on 7, and has anyone else been getting the messages?
Thanks
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I use yahoo mail almost exclusively with firefox 3.6 and I have no problems at all. However I have a premium (or whatever they call the paid version) account, but that only gives you POP access and a few other features so that shouldn’t matter.
I doubt the problem is with Yahoo since it works fine with a completely different browser, but, having said that, it’s possible there are differences between IE7 and 8 that could cause a problem so I really don’t know.
You want to use IE? Is this a medical advice thread?
Wait just a little longer, and you can skip 8 and go straight to Internet Explorer 9, which is public beta.
I have IE8 on 3 different Vista machines (16 bit and 32 bit) with no problems at all. We use Firefox 99% of the time, though.
In a way.
Loosely speaking, all my threads and posts are medical.
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Quasi, I have two Yahoo accounts and access them problem free with Firefox, Chrome, Chromium), Flock, Arora and Epiphany.
I don’t use IE if any iteration and can’t see why you should need to.
If you have to, IE8 should theoretically be a bit more secure, wouldn’t count on that though 
If you’re not interested in an independent browser (like Firefox) then I’d recommend waiting until Microsoft deploy IE9. Because IE8 is a problematic piece of . . . [Checks forum header] trash.
I have used IE8 with Vista sp2 and never had any issues with it. Of course I like Vista and have never had any issues with it. I know upgraded to Win7 on all my machines but 1, still I do like Vista
Quit using IE all together it is a horrible browser which meets less webstandards than any other browser
Which means very little to the end user as most sites are tested to work with IE. It’s a headache for devs because they have to do extra tinkering, but that’s not the user’s problem. Firefox, Chrome, and Opera are all better browsers in their ways, but it depends on what you want to DO whether it’s worth switching.
IE8 isn’t worth it, though. IE9 is a real upgrade; 8’s more like a mixed bag of tweaks of arguable value.
Why don’t you go to IE9 beta? It’s good.
Find me a website that works only under IE (other than Microsoft update, or internal coronate database website crap) that will not work for firefox (user agent ignored, some sites will refuse to load but if you tell it your IE when you’re not it will work fine). I know of only one other that I have ever come across.
IE 6 needs to die, 7 sucks, 8 looks ok, but microsoft needs to learn to quit making things so bloated
Sites designed to work with IE will look fine with firefox, no one uses activex anymore anyway and that was the only thing IE had over Firefox. Having an HTML5 browser is great to no longer are you forced to use a security ridden flash plugin to watch movies.
I know I kinda sound anti IE right now but hey why not? Everyone should have at least 2 browsers on a system they will not interfere and it is a great way to check sites that seem to be acting funky.
Chrome gives me wet dreams though…
And much much more but the OP does not want a debate I just wanted to point something out, you can get both firefox and chrome in standalone .exe programs, no install required. so you don’t gotta worry about getting crap on your system. Having more than one browser is a good idea.
Thing that sucks though is a couple of times I had to reinstall Windows (XP for my mother and 2003 for me) I couldn’t activate it. So I looked on-line and it turned out that you need IE8. So you have to download it (but from another computer since Windows won’t let you download it to an unactivated machine), put it on a flash drive or some other removable media, boot the computer to safe mode, install IE8, reboot and you can finally activate Windows.
You needed IE8 on an XP machine, I did not even think IE would work on a machine older than Vista. Sounds off you can activate windows without IE, you can just bring up the command prompt and typing oobe/msoobe /a
In this post awhile back, Quasi explained
