diff --git a/src/css/components/_captions-settings.scss b/src/css/components/_captions-settings.scss
index a9e088752..b5584526d 100644
--- a/src/css/components/_captions-settings.scss
+++ b/src/css/components/_captions-settings.scss
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@
   overflow: auto;
 }
 
+.vjs-tracksettings legend {
+  color: $primary-foreground-color;
+}
+
 .vjs-caption-settings .vjs-tracksettings-colors,
 .vjs-caption-settings .vjs-tracksettings-font {
   float: left;
diff --git a/src/js/control-bar/progress-control/play-progress-bar.js b/src/js/control-bar/progress-control/play-progress-bar.js
index 3cfe8aba2..3589aa47e 100644
--- a/src/js/control-bar/progress-control/play-progress-bar.js
+++ b/src/js/control-bar/progress-control/play-progress-bar.js
@@ -52,8 +52,11 @@ class PlayProgressBar extends Component {
         this.player_.currentTime();
 
       const content = formatTime(time, this.player_.duration());
+      const timeTooltip = this.getChild('timeTooltip');
 
-      this.getChild('timeTooltip').update(seekBarRect, seekBarPoint, content);
+      if (timeTooltip) {
+        timeTooltip.update(seekBarRect, seekBarPoint, content);
+      }
     });
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/js/control-bar/text-track-controls/caption-settings-menu-item.js b/src/js/control-bar/text-track-controls/caption-settings-menu-item.js
index 5d66074b7..095d8895a 100644
--- a/src/js/control-bar/text-track-controls/caption-settings-menu-item.js
+++ b/src/js/control-bar/text-track-controls/caption-settings-menu-item.js
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ class CaptionSettingsMenuItem extends TextTrackMenuItem {
     // CaptionSettingsMenuItem has no concept of 'selected'
     options.selectable = false;
 
+    options.name = 'CaptionSettingsMenuItem';
+
     super(player, options);
     this.addClass('vjs-texttrack-settings');
     this.controlText(', opens ' + options.kind + ' settings dialog');
@@ -52,7 +54,6 @@ class CaptionSettingsMenuItem extends TextTrackMenuItem {
   handleClick(event) {
     this.player().getChild('textTrackSettings').open();
   }
-
 }
 
 Component.registerComponent('CaptionSettingsMenuItem', CaptionSettingsMenuItem);
diff --git a/src/js/menu/menu.js b/src/js/menu/menu.js
index 096409c89..8b17b30c7 100644
--- a/src/js/menu/menu.js
+++ b/src/js/menu/menu.js
@@ -49,7 +49,12 @@ class Menu extends Component {
       // Unpress the associated MenuButton, and move focus back to it
       if (this.menuButton_) {
         this.menuButton_.unpressButton();
-        this.menuButton_.focus();
+
+        // don't focus menu button if item is a caption settings item
+        // because focus will move elsewhere and it logs an error on IE8
+        if (component.name() !== 'CaptionSettingsMenuItem') {
+          this.menuButton_.focus();
+        }
       }
     }));
   }