>>>Hi All,
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>>>Anyone know why IE8 has a long pause with the title "Connecting..." everytime you try and go to a new page? What the heck is it doing? IE7, Firefox, etc dont do this.
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>>No idea...I never made it that far. Windows Update figured my computer needed to upgrade to IE8 so I thought that I'd give it a try. After a lot of rebooting and installing and rebooting, IE8 failed to start due to a .NET JIT error or something like that. Not only that, but, Windows Updater also crashed with the same error.
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>>That was enough crap for me so off it went and back to IE7. Things are working "fine" again. BTW, have you ever tried going to this site:
>>http://plugins.jquery.com/project/Plugins/date ? IE7 bogs down and eventually tells me that scripts are slowing it down and do I want to continue running them. WTF? Chrome has no problems at all showing that site. What does IE8 do?
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>How can yo ugo back to IE7? I dont see an uninstall for IE8 or revert option?


Here is the link to uninstall IE8 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700

IE7 opens any new tab instantly - straight to about:blank

IE8 opens a tab, shows "Connecting..." in the tab caption, pauses, then clears and shows about:blank. Something weird going on.

Anyway, I'm back to IE 7 and FireFox as the default browser :)