Geany is also pretty good! http://www.geany.org/[^]

Actually, I forgot to mention: the right version for you to download is the 64 bit one, that bundles both versions. The 32 bit one is for 32 bit Windows only.

Javascript performance in IE9 64-bit is very poor, it does a lot worse than the 32 bit counterpart and other browsers. It's much better than the IE8 one, though. And there's the question of plugins. Like many people say, it's the chicken and the egg problem. 64 bit browser adoption has been slow, so neither they invest so much on this version, nor the plugin makers bother with targeting them. Flash support is in a very early stage, and Microsoft doesn't even really support it. Java, on the other hand, works like a charm, but not many people care about the java plugin these days. As for switching between them, you shouldn't worry. The 64 bit version is barely exposed to you, a link can be found in the start menu, and it can't even be made as your default browser. The 32 bit version should be the same shortcuts as you have used before (desktop, quickbar, taskbar, whatever).

As a web developer who hates Internet Explorer because of the misery it sometimes put me through, this is actually a pretty decent version. No big issues, just a few bugs here and there. Anyway, the Windows 7 64bit version installs both 32 and 64 bit IE. They focused very little on the 64 bit version, where it's actually vastly inferior to the 32 bit version. Just use the 32 bit one (it's the default) and you're good to go. -- Modified Saturday, April 9, 2011 5:33 PM

That gets me kind of confused... Just like you, I call people from US "estadounidense" (after all, I'm brazilian and an american), but what would be the equivalent in english? You know, instead of american, would I call someone from the US a "unitedstatian"? That would be just the literal translation and doesn't seem very pretty... That's something that has bugged me for many years! [EDIT] I finally looked it up, some good info can be found in a Wikipedia entry. It seems people from the US have been calling themselves americans since the 18th century, but there are a few other less known ways to call them (united statian is actually one of them).

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modified on Thursday, February 3, 2011 3:16 AM