Recommendation sought: IE 7 or IE 8 ?

I'm currently running IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2...., and am looking to
upgrade as websites such as YouTube stop supporting this older version.
I would like to hear recommendations as to whether moving up to IE 8 would
be preferable to an interim step to IE 7. I'm also running Google chrome
browser, which is a good product. My only complaint is that it hangs on some
of the tabs within a given window, and can take a good deal of time to
refresh in such cases.

Thanks in Advance

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B wrote:
> I'm currently running IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2...., and am looking to
> upgrade as websites such as YouTube stop supporting this older version.
> I would like to hear recommendations as to whether moving up to IE 8 would
> be preferable to an interim step to IE 7. I'm also running Google chrome
> browser, which is a good product. My only complaint is that it hangs on
> some
> of the tabs within a given window, and can take a good deal of time to
> refresh in such cases.
>
> Thanks in Advance