Discussion:
IE8 very sluggish with FaceBook
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Robert Aldwinckle
2009-02-02 14:00:21 UTC
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IE8 has very bad character lag when typing in FaceBook. IE8 Beta did not
have this lag.
The echo-back of characters is extremely slow (on the order
of 50-baud).
?? Looks like you have a keystroke logger active?
Better check for malware.
Overall, IE8 seems more sluggish than the IE8 beta was. I've cleaned the
registry after upgrading but that didn't help.
IE8 broke something.
BTW IE8 is not final yet. Please continue to use the IE Beta newsgroup.
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HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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Gordon
2009-02-02 15:41:50 UTC
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Post by Robert Aldwinckle
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IE8 has very bad character lag when typing in FaceBook. IE8 Beta did not
have this lag.
The echo-back of characters is extremely slow (on the order
of 50-baud).
?? Looks like you have a keystroke logger active?
Better check for malware.
No I get this as well. Doesn't happen in IE7....
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Lox
2009-02-02 21:47:01 UTC
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Post by Gordon
Post by Robert Aldwinckle
(cross-post added to IE Beta)
IE8 has very bad character lag when typing in FaceBook. IE8 Beta did not
have this lag.
The echo-back of characters is extremely slow (on the order
of 50-baud).
?? Looks like you have a keystroke logger active?
Better check for malware.
No I get this as well. Doesn't happen in IE7....
I am also experiencing very similar issues in IE8 on Facebook. Typing in a
word comes back about 1 character every 3-4 seconds. Not spotted it in other
sites yet. I don't recall it being a problem last week so maybe there has
been a code change at Facebook which is incompatible with IE8?

Having said that I have tried to enforce IE7 compatibility for facebook.com
and for all sites and this has not fixed the issue.

True IE7 and IE6 continue to work fine.
wils0nk3
2010-02-02 22:01:01 UTC
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Or maybe Facebook has a keylogger running on their site that hasn't been
optimized for IE8. Haha. Not that I would know. But do you have this problem
on sites other than Facebook? If not that says something.... For one, that it
isn't your computer.
Post by Lox
Post by Gordon
Post by Robert Aldwinckle
(cross-post added to IE Beta)
IE8 has very bad character lag when typing in FaceBook. IE8 Beta did not
have this lag.
The echo-back of characters is extremely slow (on the order
of 50-baud).
?? Looks like you have a keystroke logger active?
Better check for malware.
No I get this as well. Doesn't happen in IE7....
I am also experiencing very similar issues in IE8 on Facebook. Typing in a
word comes back about 1 character every 3-4 seconds. Not spotted it in other
sites yet. I don't recall it being a problem last week so maybe there has
been a code change at Facebook which is incompatible with IE8?
Having said that I have tried to enforce IE7 compatibility for facebook.com
and for all sites and this has not fixed the issue.
True IE7 and IE6 continue to work fine.
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