IE8Blog team response to load problem

I'm going batty waiting for ie8 to load plus page transitions and tabs...
I got this response from the IE8 Blog Team
Geof

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From: Geof
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 4:24 PM
To: ~Removed~
Subject: RE: (IEBlog) : IE8


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Thanks for the link,

I have Spybot L&G w/immunization & no addons.

I won't let my customers disable this feature as I consider Spybot S&D an indispensable asset and can't allow upgrading to IE8 until fixed.

Any news on when IE8 Development will cease causing this debilitating delay?

Geof

PS - I saw a lot of grips about cpu hogging issue during Beta and waited until you guys said it was gone to download - but I guess the issue is still open.
I didn't install ie8 till last week.

Thanks,
G.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geof
> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 2:49 PM
> To: IEBlog Administration
> Subject: (IEBlog) : IE8
> Importance: High
>
>
> How do I make ie8 stop HOGGING my cpu for 3-4 min. and locking the system on load? I can't hot-key Task Manager or click on START to see what's up.
> OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
> Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
> OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
> System Name xxx
> System Manufacturer IBM
> System Model -[621923U]-
> System Type X86-based PC
> Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel ~2665 Mhz
> BIOS Version/Date IBM -[M6E120AUS-1.20]-, 4/8/2003
> SMBIOS Version 2.3
> Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
> System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
> Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
> Locale United States
> Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)"
> User Name xxx\xxx
> Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
> Total Physical Memory 1,536.00 MB
> Available Physical Memory 855.34 MB
> Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
> Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
> Page File Space 3.31 GB.
> ----------------------------------
> This message was generated from a contact form at: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/default.aspx

--- Spybot - Search & Destroy version: 1.6.2.46 (build: 20090126) ---
Latest Detection Update: 5/13/2009

 

For what you post, I'd say that Microsoft couldn't care less about it. At least, if they were indeed concerned about this, then I'm sure they'd tell you they're trying to solve it. Unless, they want to surprise people? (Yes, I'm being sarcastic...)

For Microsoft, the culprit is Spybot - Search & Destroy, when it is not. The problem is that the final version of IE 8 doesn't handle many entries very well.

But, the RC version didn't have this problem.