ComplainerMan

I upgraded from Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 to Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 a couple of days ago. The first thing I noticed is that it is a lot like Firefox 2, that I normally use.

The thing I don’t like about Firefox is that it is incapable of dealing with a limited user account on Windows XP. I try to access the Internet from a limited user account as much as possible, because if I can’t install programs, neither can malicious websites. Internet Explorer 6 works fine, and it appears that Internet Explorer 8 does too. Firefox, however tries to update, but can’t because it doesn’t have the permissions. Going to a admin account on the same machine and updating Firefox doesn’t help for some reason, and neither does selecting “Run As” an admin account from the limited user account. I still get the dialog that Firefox was unable to update. But I digress. Back to Microsoft Internet Exploder 8.

I’ve been using it for a couple of days now, and have noticed that it crashes every once in a while. No surprise there. However when downloading files to the hard drive, I noticed that it fails to download the complete file on a regular basis, without warning. On two seperate occassions today I need to download some zipped application files, and about 75% of the time, the file was truncated. I guess it’s not confirming the checksum or something, but the bottom line is, I need to switch to Firefox to properly download files. Good work Microsoft! You screwed up Vista, the X-Box beyond anything that could be expected from a high school junior achievement class, and the hits just keep on coming!