IE9 --- Thumbs down after 60 seconds
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So, i thought i had at least upgrade my IE, get it out of the way. So downloads installer and kicks it off: and it closed everything running to install, reopened them again and then told me to restart computer to use it. :wtf: (Why not just close everything, install and then restart computer as part of the install process). Anyway, took a few sites for a quick spin, Engadget, CP, MSN, and after 60 seconds of this, i thought why did i bother. It's toolbar arrangement, tabs, address bar, all look so dated. The page scrolling is not very pretty, it just feels so X| Think I will be staying with chrome.........
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So, i thought i had at least upgrade my IE, get it out of the way. So downloads installer and kicks it off: and it closed everything running to install, reopened them again and then told me to restart computer to use it. :wtf: (Why not just close everything, install and then restart computer as part of the install process). Anyway, took a few sites for a quick spin, Engadget, CP, MSN, and after 60 seconds of this, i thought why did i bother. It's toolbar arrangement, tabs, address bar, all look so dated. The page scrolling is not very pretty, it just feels so X| Think I will be staying with chrome.........
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I won't even have it on my machine. I wonder when MS will stop doing browsers? There is no money to be made from them and so many others write them that is seems a waste of resources.
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I won't even have it on my machine. I wonder when MS will stop doing browsers? There is no money to be made from them and so many others write them that is seems a waste of resources.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
Dalek Dave wrote:
I won't even have it on my machine.
One version or the other of IE is anyway going to be on your machine. You WILL have it on your machine (unless you choose a different operating system than Windows). See below.
Dalek Dave wrote:
I wonder when MS will stop doing browsers?
NO, they can't. Because it's a part of the operating system.
Dalek Dave wrote:
There is no money to be made from them and so many others write them that is seems a waste of resources.
But so many others make their money by building plugins for IE, and website developers will want their websites to work perfectly on whatever reasonably popular browser, regardless of their opinion about the latest [insert browser name here]. So, those companies that develop for IE will have to buy Windows for the fact that IE doesn't exist on any other platform. That is money, made by selling licenses of Windows. It's just not how it renders websites. There's common controls, script engine, etc., that come along with the browser (which are not obviously "visible") unless you're programming using those.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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So, i thought i had at least upgrade my IE, get it out of the way. So downloads installer and kicks it off: and it closed everything running to install, reopened them again and then told me to restart computer to use it. :wtf: (Why not just close everything, install and then restart computer as part of the install process). Anyway, took a few sites for a quick spin, Engadget, CP, MSN, and after 60 seconds of this, i thought why did i bother. It's toolbar arrangement, tabs, address bar, all look so dated. The page scrolling is not very pretty, it just feels so X| Think I will be staying with chrome.........
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The speed of IE9 is amazing, but I do admit the interface is ugly. Even uglier than Chrome. Plus, I've gotten too attached to a lot of the features in Opera to switch to anything else.
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So, i thought i had at least upgrade my IE, get it out of the way. So downloads installer and kicks it off: and it closed everything running to install, reopened them again and then told me to restart computer to use it. :wtf: (Why not just close everything, install and then restart computer as part of the install process). Anyway, took a few sites for a quick spin, Engadget, CP, MSN, and after 60 seconds of this, i thought why did i bother. It's toolbar arrangement, tabs, address bar, all look so dated. The page scrolling is not very pretty, it just feels so X| Think I will be staying with chrome.........
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DaveAuld wrote:
after 60 seconds of this, i thought why did i bother.
You won't discover much new features that way. Seems that IE now supports the shortcuts on the taskbar-menu that are Weven-specific. I'm hoping that the performance-advisor (for identifying the slower addins) comes to Chrome/FF quickly :)
I are Troll :suss:
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I won't even have it on my machine. I wonder when MS will stop doing browsers? There is no money to be made from them and so many others write them that is seems a waste of resources.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
There is no sane reason why you shouldn't upgrade from 8 to 9, even if you don't use IE at all. It is used internally by the OS and the IE9 engine is much faster and more secure.
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So, i thought i had at least upgrade my IE, get it out of the way. So downloads installer and kicks it off: and it closed everything running to install, reopened them again and then told me to restart computer to use it. :wtf: (Why not just close everything, install and then restart computer as part of the install process). Anyway, took a few sites for a quick spin, Engadget, CP, MSN, and after 60 seconds of this, i thought why did i bother. It's toolbar arrangement, tabs, address bar, all look so dated. The page scrolling is not very pretty, it just feels so X| Think I will be staying with chrome.........
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I haven't bothered switching to IE9 on any of my machines. I've ran it now and then for testing our components on virtual machines though, but never long enough to develop a strong opinion on how good or bad it is. I did notice one good thing: A download manager with a frakkin' "pause" button. It has taken them a decade or so, but there they are. :)
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
I won't even have it on my machine.
One version or the other of IE is anyway going to be on your machine. You WILL have it on your machine (unless you choose a different operating system than Windows). See below.
Dalek Dave wrote:
I wonder when MS will stop doing browsers?
NO, they can't. Because it's a part of the operating system.
Dalek Dave wrote:
There is no money to be made from them and so many others write them that is seems a waste of resources.
But so many others make their money by building plugins for IE, and website developers will want their websites to work perfectly on whatever reasonably popular browser, regardless of their opinion about the latest [insert browser name here]. So, those companies that develop for IE will have to buy Windows for the fact that IE doesn't exist on any other platform. That is money, made by selling licenses of Windows. It's just not how it renders websites. There's common controls, script engine, etc., that come along with the browser (which are not obviously "visible") unless you're programming using those.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
Because it's a part of the operating system.
Unnecessarily. Other browsers like FF, Chrome, Opera and the rest can be installed and removed without affecting the operation of the OS. I have a strong suspicion that MS only moved some key portions of Windows into IE so that they could argue that they couldn't unbundle it.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
Because it's a part of the operating system.
Unnecessarily. Other browsers like FF, Chrome, Opera and the rest can be installed and removed without affecting the operation of the OS. I have a strong suspicion that MS only moved some key portions of Windows into IE so that they could argue that they couldn't unbundle it.
I'm not denying the fact that they may have intentionally strongly coupled a few things here and there with IE such that it becomes an important part of the OS. However, I'd like to give them the benefit of doubt as well. Windows explorer uses the same engine. I do not think there should have been any malicious intent here (as opposed to say, having the common controls updated with each version of IE), because if I were to write two different 'explorers', I'd strongly consider the possibility of both using the same engine. But the users are free to install and use whatever browser (including Google malware) they want, and I don't see the point in installing something that apparently is anyway going to "suck", and then whine about it. Browsers are free, anyway. I personally use Opera though, and I'm very happy with it.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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So, i thought i had at least upgrade my IE, get it out of the way. So downloads installer and kicks it off: and it closed everything running to install, reopened them again and then told me to restart computer to use it. :wtf: (Why not just close everything, install and then restart computer as part of the install process). Anyway, took a few sites for a quick spin, Engadget, CP, MSN, and after 60 seconds of this, i thought why did i bother. It's toolbar arrangement, tabs, address bar, all look so dated. The page scrolling is not very pretty, it just feels so X| Think I will be staying with chrome.........
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Fine for me. hate browsers per se, this is the best out of a bad bunch :)
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So, i thought i had at least upgrade my IE, get it out of the way. So downloads installer and kicks it off: and it closed everything running to install, reopened them again and then told me to restart computer to use it. :wtf: (Why not just close everything, install and then restart computer as part of the install process). Anyway, took a few sites for a quick spin, Engadget, CP, MSN, and after 60 seconds of this, i thought why did i bother. It's toolbar arrangement, tabs, address bar, all look so dated. The page scrolling is not very pretty, it just feels so X| Think I will be staying with chrome.........
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I won't even have it on my machine. I wonder when MS will stop doing browsers? There is no money to be made from them and so many others write them that is seems a waste of resources.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
Ive removed it from my PC as well.. it couldnt render about 6 of my normal sites i went to properly, even in compatiability mode. Facebook & Twitter kept on crashing it as well. Took it off and put IE8 back on and all is well.. Piece of junk... JC
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So, i thought i had at least upgrade my IE, get it out of the way. So downloads installer and kicks it off: and it closed everything running to install, reopened them again and then told me to restart computer to use it. :wtf: (Why not just close everything, install and then restart computer as part of the install process). Anyway, took a few sites for a quick spin, Engadget, CP, MSN, and after 60 seconds of this, i thought why did i bother. It's toolbar arrangement, tabs, address bar, all look so dated. The page scrolling is not very pretty, it just feels so X| Think I will be staying with chrome.........
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DaveAuld wrote:
all look so dated
You mean it doesn't match what you like. I personally find Chrome's interface rather hideous and cartoonish. (I use Firefox and home and IE 8 at work out of choice. A big reason I use IE8 at work is that I keep my yahoo mail open and Firefox has a tendency to start consuming lots of CPU and memory for no damn reason, especially with yahoo and some other sites--even CodeProject has gone into runaway mode on Firefox.)
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So, i thought i had at least upgrade my IE, get it out of the way. So downloads installer and kicks it off: and it closed everything running to install, reopened them again and then told me to restart computer to use it. :wtf: (Why not just close everything, install and then restart computer as part of the install process). Anyway, took a few sites for a quick spin, Engadget, CP, MSN, and after 60 seconds of this, i thought why did i bother. It's toolbar arrangement, tabs, address bar, all look so dated. The page scrolling is not very pretty, it just feels so X| Think I will be staying with chrome.........
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DaveAuld wrote:
all look so dated
You mean it doesn't match what you like. I personally find Chrome's interface rather hideous and cartoonish. (I use Firefox and home and IE 8 at work out of choice. A big reason I use IE8 at work is that I keep my yahoo mail open and Firefox has a tendency to start consuming lots of CPU and memory for no damn reason, especially with yahoo and some other sites--even CodeProject has gone into runaway mode on Firefox.)
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DaveAuld wrote:
after 60 seconds of this, i thought why did i bother.
You won't discover much new features that way. Seems that IE now supports the shortcuts on the taskbar-menu that are Weven-specific. I'm hoping that the performance-advisor (for identifying the slower addins) comes to Chrome/FF quickly :)
I are Troll :suss:
Eddy Vluggen wrote:
You won't discover much new features that way
Eddy, i appreciate that, but if i don't know whats there i can't miss it....... Its the first looks that get me, it doesn't say 'you want to use me', and therefore having got so used to chrome, i have no desire to change.
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There is no sane reason why you shouldn't upgrade from 8 to 9, even if you don't use IE at all. It is used internally by the OS and the IE9 engine is much faster and more secure.
and therefore if its core to the OS the updates will be pumped into the box by MS regardless. The only thing i use IE for is Outlook access for my work. (oh, and testing a site to check its not just a chrome issue). FF has been and gone with each major revision, and never lasts ont he machine more than a day.
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So, i thought i had at least upgrade my IE, get it out of the way. So downloads installer and kicks it off: and it closed everything running to install, reopened them again and then told me to restart computer to use it. :wtf: (Why not just close everything, install and then restart computer as part of the install process). Anyway, took a few sites for a quick spin, Engadget, CP, MSN, and after 60 seconds of this, i thought why did i bother. It's toolbar arrangement, tabs, address bar, all look so dated. The page scrolling is not very pretty, it just feels so X| Think I will be staying with chrome.........
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Personally I like it. I didn't have the issues with the install that you did. I clicked install, the installer went away. I even continued to use IE8 and do my work on my machine normally. It came back and said I needed to reboot to finish, I told it "later" and went about my business until I was ready to normally reboot. At which point it came back up with IE9 installed and ready to go. It's clean It's fast (fastest browser on the market currently[^]) It integrates nicely with Win7 and doesn't cause problems on lesser windows OS (like Vista/XP). Supposedly it's secure. It's fairly standard compliant (at least as much as is necessary for web browsing IMO) It supports HTML5 better than any other browser... What isn't to like?
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Personally I like it. I didn't have the issues with the install that you did. I clicked install, the installer went away. I even continued to use IE8 and do my work on my machine normally. It came back and said I needed to reboot to finish, I told it "later" and went about my business until I was ready to normally reboot. At which point it came back up with IE9 installed and ready to go. It's clean It's fast (fastest browser on the market currently[^]) It integrates nicely with Win7 and doesn't cause problems on lesser windows OS (like Vista/XP). Supposedly it's secure. It's fairly standard compliant (at least as much as is necessary for web browsing IMO) It supports HTML5 better than any other browser... What isn't to like?
kinar wrote:
It integrates nicely with Win7 and doesn't cause problems on lesser windows OS (like Vista/XP).
There's NO version of IE9 for Windows XP. The minimum supported client OS is Vista, and server OS is 2008.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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So, i thought i had at least upgrade my IE, get it out of the way. So downloads installer and kicks it off: and it closed everything running to install, reopened them again and then told me to restart computer to use it. :wtf: (Why not just close everything, install and then restart computer as part of the install process). Anyway, took a few sites for a quick spin, Engadget, CP, MSN, and after 60 seconds of this, i thought why did i bother. It's toolbar arrangement, tabs, address bar, all look so dated. The page scrolling is not very pretty, it just feels so X| Think I will be staying with chrome.........
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