Internet Explorer 9: Stuff you should know

Would you try IE9?

  • Yes

    Votes: 6 60.0%

  • No

    Votes: 4 40.0%

  • Unsure

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    10
As a browser it has its plus points...

But I'm very seriously undecided about some of the UI choices tbh... esp the placing of the Address bar and tabs on the same "line"...
 
M$ will have a tough battle getting people to leave firefox, chrome etc to come back to IE - they have already shown us what they do when we allow them to dominate anything

At the moment IE9 beta is still lagging behind Chrome in terms of performance, and even if they were to catch up or even surpass Chrome, I won't use IE9, simply because the competition will actively try to improve their browsers, even when they are ahead, while M$ will leave it as is if there's no incentive to improve.
 
can't teach a retarded dog new tricks...
 
same old... so MS have finally played catch-up! guess what? 3 months after IE9 final release, Chrome and FF will have moved on and IE9 users will be stuck in the past once again... (and have numerous critical updates to install.....) I stopped using IE around v3 and have never needed it.
 
What you need to know: It should only be used when you absolutely HAVE to view a page that has been developed by a Microsoft script kiddie.
Opera, Firefox and Chrome knock it's socks off.
 
BradBowlLlama said:
What you need to know: It should only be used when you absolutely HAVE to view a page that has been developed by a Microsoft script kiddie.
Opera, Firefox and Chrome knock it's socks off.
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+3
 
:) I use all browsers because of the work I do for testing etc and IE is by far the least used.

It's all about Chrome & FireFox...FireFox was my main but I have now switched to Chrome. It seems to handle 100+tabs open better.
 
tried it, its crap, links dont open and if you want to scroll down pages get a state of the dt's , terrible shakes LOL, the fox rules;)
 
Really enjoying the IE9 beta sofar. It's leaps and bounds ahead of IE8, faster than Firefox ever was for me (at least in day to day "things that matter" operations), and while it still doesn't *quite* reach Chrome levels when it comes to HTML standards compliance, the actual rendering performance is butter smooth, unlike Chrome which is comparatively choppy. It's UI is also less cluttered, kinda more attractive than competitors even, and it integrates FAR better with Windows than the rest. Right now it's my preferred browser, and if this is a sign of things to come it'll likely stay that way for some time.
 
Tharaxis said:
Really enjoying the IE9 beta sofar. It's leaps and bounds ahead of IE8, faster than Firefox ever was for me (at least in day to day "things that matter" operations), and while it still doesn't *quite* reach Chrome levels when it comes to HTML standards compliance, the actual rendering performance is butter smooth, unlike Chrome which is comparatively choppy. It's UI is also less cluttered, kinda more attractive than competitors even, and it integrates FAR better with Windows than the rest. Right now it's my preferred browser, and if this is a sign of things to come it'll likely stay that way for some time.
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+1.
Have FF and Chrome installed and have been using FF4 and 3.6 as my main browser for quite sometime but I have to say I'm having far more problems with FF4 which is now in its 6th beta version than in IE9. I've found rendering speeds to be much faster in IE9 and it's general snappiness is great. I've found JS speed to not be noticably slower than Chrome as it's pretty hard to discern the difference between a few milliseconds.
As we've seen with all betas, software really does improve as it migrates to final release especially with performance issues and I think we'll see the same with IE9.
Looking forward to it. :)
 
I decided to give IE9 a spin on an Intel iCore 3 system again , with hardware acceleration and cleartype for HTML switched on - very good. :)
 
Does it have live bookmarks ala FF? Does it have good add-ons? Otherwise it's FF FTW
 
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