so I doubt there is any 'fix' from Microsoft.
You don't provide any examples, so we can't test for ourselves, but all I can say that my own IE8 behaves exactly the same as Firefox does when clicking links.
May be you have some IE Add-on that is causing a problem?
Mark
Some links don't work in IE8 that work very nicely in Firefox. I'm running Win7 Home Premium. Is there a patch fix for this from Microsoft?

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