Hi everyone,
We need your help. We have a number of reports on the various village pumps, helpdesks, Twitter, and such that IE8 users are experiencing crashes merely by visiting our site. Here's the bug report: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31424
Given the frequency and diversity of reports, there is almost certainly something to this, even though we don't yet have a solid repro case that a developer can actually use to fix this.
Here's what we need. If you are actually seeing crashes, we would love to know exact browser version (e.g. IE 8.0.7601.17514), exact operating system version, all plugins installed and their exact versions, and how much RAM your machine has. Please report your findings either in the bug report above, or if you're more comfortable on-wiki, then here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#If_you_c....
Thanks! Rob