I'm afraid I'd urge caution with installing any application that's still in beta. The purpose of a beta release is to give people the opportunity to test a piece of software, on the understanding that it is not the finished product and that it may still contain bugs. I'd recommend rolling back to IE7, then taking another look at the problems you were experiencing. Are you sure for example that the browser was the problem? One possible way to find out would be to install another type of browser, perhaps Firefox. If the links work in Firefox, but not in IE7, you may have narrowed the problem down to a particular browser. This approach is slightly different from installing IE8, as a browser like Firefox 3 is a finished product. In other words, you shouldn't get the kind of bugs you might expect from IE8 at this stage. Something else to try would be to send the links to other people. If they too can't get the links to work, then it's possible that the link is at fault, not the browser. Léonie. _____ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mandy Sent: 10 March 2009 14:06 To: access-uk Subject: [access-uk] Internet Explorer. I've just installed IE8 beta version is this a bad idea? I am using Jaws 10. I'd been having some issues where certain links weren't working and even when I copied them into the browser they didn't work - I installed IE7 hoping it would right itself somehow - it did for five minutes then reverted back but when looking I'd seen IE8 so thought I'd install it. there's a lot of new stuff and I don't yet know how Jaws copes although I can access my usual sites and it seems very fast. Mandy.