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[richard mitnick]

IE9 is out. I put it on 6 machines. No problems; but on the surface just annoyances. I probably will not give it even a one month try as a default on one machine. I just do not like the tab set up, and I cannot find a way to make it display tabs the way I want.


Still waiting for Colorful Tabs and the Mosaic-Fox theme for FF4. Both developers say it is on the way. But no FF4 for me until they are available.


>RSM

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[DJGM]

Having tried the beta and the RC, I am no hurry whatsoever to install the finalised version . . .

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[richard mitnick]

On the one hand, I never really use IE. On the other hand, it is tightly integrated with Windows, so there are stability and security issues solved (we hope), I I do the installations and any updates. I just wish they would follow the dictum "if it ain't broke don't fix it."

I mean, why disturb the normal pattern of how tabs are displayed? Why give me no choice? Why no choice to open a new tab on top?

The user experience is just about all that separates the various browsers. They are fast, they are smart. It's really "pick 'em" .

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[DJGM]

I never really use IE either, unless I absolutely have to. If I need to test webpages with IE, I'll use
the IETab Plus add-on installed in SeaMonkey. The only thing that would prompt me to install IE9
is for any additional security the updated version of the Trident engine might offer. Other than
that, I see absolutely no reason to install anytime soon, if at all.

As far as the tabs thing goes, at least they can be moved from the stupid default position next
to the address bar, down to the more sensible position of below the address bar. I'm surpised
the IE boffins didn't offer the option to move the tabs above the address bar, although I'd
hazard a guess that'd make IE9 look too much like Chromium, and that UI is bad enough!

I'd go as far as to say that the UI of IE9 isn't just dumbed down ... it's FUGLY!

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[Antony]

Thank you for this exciting news. Internet Explorer 9 is said to have great support on standards, including HTML5, CSS3, SVG, XHTML, this will make the web designers' life easier.

IE 9 is also said to have hardware-accelerated graphics and text rendering, as well as improved malware protection.

I personally see this new release is a great news for the entire internet community, considering that Internet Explorer still has more than half of the market share.

Now, does IE9 run on Windows XP?

I shall give IE9 a run once I have time to install the Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac on this Mac. Been busy (the disc is still in the sleeve, bought in December last year, and that is not the only item I bought but haven't used/opened ).

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[richard mitnick]

IE9 swill not run on XP.

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[DJGM]

Indeed ... IE9 is available only for Windows Vista and Windows 7.

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[Mandrake]

Interesting, thanks. I'll have to try this out when I get home. I tried the first beta and it was pretty interesting, but I don't think that anything will replace Firefox 4 as my main browser tor the foreseeable future.i

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[richard mitnick]

I have been doing everything I can with IE9. For the most part, it's fine. But it is D.O.E. for me because it fails on one task which I need many times a day, and which is well done in FF and SM, and, I think, in Safari and Chrome.

This is not new. It has been a failure for IE for as long as I have used a Windows computer with IE.

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[Antony]

Am I able to install IE9 without losing IE8?

As in, can I have both IE9 and IE8 on the same Windows?

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[James]

I wouldn't think so, Antony, but then I'd wonder why you would want to keep IE8 when IE9 is so much better? Seriously, IE9 is an awesome browser certainly close to the other modern browsers that most of us use.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

[richard mitnick]

My main problem with IE had been caching email addresses in my ISP's web mail. My ISP removed that problem. But in my blog work, I copy a lot of graphics. Both FF and SM have a Copy on the context menu (right click for you non-mouse people) but with IE I need to go to Properties and grab it which can be difficult.

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[Antony]

I wouldn't think so, Antony, but then I'd wonder why you would want to keep IE8 when IE9 is so much better? Seriously, IE9 is an awesome browser certainly close to the other modern browsers that most of us use.

I guess it is because that I haven't been using IE8 much after all.

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