IE9 installed
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and looking good: definitely more responsive and slightly less screen clutter (which is configurable). Not found anything to moan about. Yet. Well done Microsloth. :thumbsup:
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I agree! Just got it installed and all looks pretty good. Glad to see that tabs function like in Chrome where you can drag them out to form a new browser window or drag them in to a browser windows to combine them with other tabs. Was lot a bit to start with until I held downt he ALT-V to bring up the view menu so I could turn my favorites bar back on :) One little appearance issue is the back button circle seems to get cut of just slightly at the bottom. Just a few hairs of space in there would have made that look better. The Flixter.com site seems pretty suggish though. Just too much going on there.
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and looking good: definitely more responsive and slightly less screen clutter (which is configurable). Not found anything to moan about. Yet. Well done Microsloth. :thumbsup:
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
The UI is really raw (a lot of wasted space on the title bar, bottom part of the back button is chopped off), but I'm really impressed with the rendering speed and general responsiveness. This one will be a keeper once it hits the final release (or even a nicer looking beta). Until then I'm happy with my Opera for my day-to-day browsing. Sadly, I'll soon have to uninstall IE9 as my Internet banking application only works with IE7/8, but it's been a really pleasant surprise. :thumbsup: MS!
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and looking good: definitely more responsive and slightly less screen clutter (which is configurable). Not found anything to moan about. Yet. Well done Microsloth. :thumbsup:
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
But have MS made a mistake in making it only run on Win7? There are still an awful lot of users out there still using XP, and they will switch to Firefox or Chrome in order to get the benefits of HTML5 if they can't get them otherwise.... MS could end up losing even more market share in the browser wars, no matter how good IE9 is... just a thought...
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I agree! Just got it installed and all looks pretty good. Glad to see that tabs function like in Chrome where you can drag them out to form a new browser window or drag them in to a browser windows to combine them with other tabs. Was lot a bit to start with until I held downt he ALT-V to bring up the view menu so I could turn my favorites bar back on :) One little appearance issue is the back button circle seems to get cut of just slightly at the bottom. Just a few hairs of space in there would have made that look better. The Flixter.com site seems pretty suggish though. Just too much going on there.
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Rocky Moore wrote:
Glad to see that tabs function like in Chrome Opera where you can drag them out to form a new browser window or drag them in to a browser windows to combine them with other tabs.
Credit where it's due.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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But have MS made a mistake in making it only run on Win7? There are still an awful lot of users out there still using XP, and they will switch to Firefox or Chrome in order to get the benefits of HTML5 if they can't get them otherwise.... MS could end up losing even more market share in the browser wars, no matter how good IE9 is... just a thought...
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But have MS made a mistake in making it only run on Win7? There are still an awful lot of users out there still using XP, and they will switch to Firefox or Chrome in order to get the benefits of HTML5 if they can't get them otherwise.... MS could end up losing even more market share in the browser wars, no matter how good IE9 is... just a thought...
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But have MS made a mistake in making it only run on Win7? There are still an awful lot of users out there still using XP, and they will switch to Firefox or Chrome in order to get the benefits of HTML5 if they can't get them otherwise.... MS could end up losing even more market share in the browser wars, no matter how good IE9 is... just a thought...
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I have received a similar email about it Let me give it a try. I hope it is not heavy like IE8 . I use IE6 which is good
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But have MS made a mistake in making it only run on Win7? There are still an awful lot of users out there still using XP, and they will switch to Firefox or Chrome in order to get the benefits of HTML5 if they can't get them otherwise.... MS could end up losing even more market share in the browser wars, no matter how good IE9 is... just a thought...
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Others can probably answer that better than me, but I suspect it's a) a question of branding - it's a kind of free advertising for the Microsoft name, and b) it's also a matter of being able to bundle it in to the OS when they sell that, and thus being able to command a slightly higher price for that.
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But have MS made a mistake in making it only run on Win7? There are still an awful lot of users out there still using XP, and they will switch to Firefox or Chrome in order to get the benefits of HTML5 if they can't get them otherwise.... MS could end up losing even more market share in the browser wars, no matter how good IE9 is... just a thought...
NeverHeardOfMe wrote:
But have MS made a mistake in making it only run on Win7?
Vista and Win7. IE9 uses Direct2D for rendering which has not been backported to XP (and won't be). As for XP, it was released in 2001 and as good as it was then, it is time to move on.
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5fingers wrote:
I use IE6 which is good
I just plain can't believe what I am reading. IE6 is one of the biggest POS ever, maybe in the Top10 of the worst pieces of software ever, along with Norton Anti-[Anything] and Lotus Notes.
Rage wrote:
I just plain can't believe what I am reading. IE6 is one of the biggest POS ever
It was the best browser around when it was released. It is unfair to compare poor old IE6 to Chrome and Safari which were released a decade later.
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Rage wrote:
I just plain can't believe what I am reading. IE6 is one of the biggest POS ever
It was the best browser around when it was released. It is unfair to compare poor old IE6 to Chrome and Safari which were released a decade later.
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NeverHeardOfMe wrote:
But have MS made a mistake in making it only run on Win7?
Vista and Win7. IE9 uses Direct2D for rendering which has not been backported to XP (and won't be). As for XP, it was released in 2001 and as good as it was then, it is time to move on.
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
As for XP, it was released in 2001 and as good as it was then, it is time to move on.
Absolutely, but tell that to the great unwashed.... blimey, I know people still using Win98, FFS.... :rolleyes: Mind you, such people wouldn't upgrade to IE9 anyway... But XP is still very popular, and a great deal of those users would need to buy a new computer in order to run Win7, and that is a great deterrent to a lot of people. Whatever the technical reasons why it won't run on XP, I do feel Microsoft may find that they will lose a lot of IE users to Firefox and Chrome because of it.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
As for XP, it was released in 2001 and as good as it was then, it is time to move on.
Absolutely, but tell that to the great unwashed.... blimey, I know people still using Win98, FFS.... :rolleyes: Mind you, such people wouldn't upgrade to IE9 anyway... But XP is still very popular, and a great deal of those users would need to buy a new computer in order to run Win7, and that is a great deterrent to a lot of people. Whatever the technical reasons why it won't run on XP, I do feel Microsoft may find that they will lose a lot of IE users to Firefox and Chrome because of it.
NeverHeardOfMe wrote:
Whatever the technical reasons why it won't run on XP, I do feel Microsoft may find that they will lose a lot of IE users to Firefox and Chrome because of it.
Don’t be so sure, a lot of these XP users are still using IE6 because they have used with it and because it works. If these “conservative” users want a new modern browser they have IE8 which is okay, has tabs/this is the “modern” part for most of the users including me/ and also works. Why they need to move to unintuitive and unfamiliar geek’s browser like Chrome?
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
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and looking good: definitely more responsive and slightly less screen clutter (which is configurable). Not found anything to moan about. Yet. Well done Microsloth. :thumbsup:
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
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NeverHeardOfMe wrote:
Whatever the technical reasons why it won't run on XP, I do feel Microsoft may find that they will lose a lot of IE users to Firefox and Chrome because of it.
Don’t be so sure, a lot of these XP users are still using IE6 because they have used with it and because it works. If these “conservative” users want a new modern browser they have IE8 which is okay, has tabs/this is the “modern” part for most of the users including me/ and also works. Why they need to move to unintuitive and unfamiliar geek’s browser like Chrome?
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
Because IE8 doesn't support HTML5, and new fancy graphics (canvas), which is the shiny new thing people will want to see.
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Question, since I haven't seen it mentioned either way in other reviews. Does IE9 still simulate a Geiger counter?
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
eh? Don't know about IE, but my mouse does.. clicks away like mad...
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eh? Don't know about IE, but my mouse does.. clicks away like mad...