Good lord! It's IE 9

[Badnik Mechanic]

So according to the BBC, Microsofts I.E. 9 has been released.

The article has a lot of technical information that I for one find rather dull and boring and more the most part will be unlikely to touch or even use. So long as I can access everything a growing boy needs I'll be happy (waits for someone to quote that line and reply with porn)

I for one use I.E. just because thats what I've always used and at every place of work, college, uni or public building... it's always I.E. so I'll most likely end up downloading this at some point.

Anyone got it yet and tried it out?

*reads a little of the article*

The do not collect my data nasty website sounds like a nice and long overdue feature. So I guess yay?

Edited February 10, 2011 by Hogfather

[Tailikku]

(waits for someone to quote that line and reply with porn)

I won't

[Velotix von Skruviktorrius]

It's an RC so it's not quite ready for prime-time.

I installed the beta a while back and from the two minutes I gave it it doesn't look too bad for IE.

However Firefox 4 is nearly ready too and that will kick its arse black and blue, promptly restoring the balance of the universe. No biggie then.

[novelty]

I'll stick with my shiny, silver-plated Google Chrome.

[TheGerkuman]

So long as I can access everything a growing boy needs I'll be happy

MILK!

I'm perfectly happy with Firefox, but I hope that this release is better than it's previous incarnations. Better competition breeds better products all around.

[eXtaticus]

No thanks; Chrome all the way for me.

[Random Rhyme]

I use Chrome as well.

I havent touched IE in ages.

[Swiss]

Yeah, IE has always felt so clunky to me since I started using Chrome. Firefox also seems like a beefed-up IE, which is why i'm not fond of that.

No IE9 for me then.

[SuperStingray]

I don't think it's as bad as people make it out to be, but next to the competition, it's just not worth it.

[Velotix von Skruviktorrius]

The main issue with IE is that because it's built into Windows directly it has direct access to the computer's file system, which remains the single most retarded security mistake Microsoft ever made. This is why hackers focus on finding exploits in IE to take control of the computer as it's a very easy backdoor into the system. It's also why IE is generally unsafe to use for any purpose. IE itself, especially the more recent versions, is perfectly solid software.

Of course that doesn't stop plenty of unaware folks using it anyway and wondering why their computer "suddenly slowed down a lot" over the last two weeks. :/

The other issue with IE is that Microsoft flatly refuse to adhere to the W3C web standards like every other browser does, meaning that if a page is designed for IE it'll look like ass in any other browser and vice-versa. This causes much rage from web designers sick of designing the same site twice just because IE likes to be different.

[Candescence]

The other issue with IE is that Microsoft flatly refuse to adhere to the W3C web standards like every other browser does, meaning that if a page is designed for IE it'll look like ass in any other browser and vice-versa. This causes much rage from web designers sick of designing the same site twice just because IE likes to be different.

Dear God, this. Microsoft love trying to force their 'standards' on everyone else, which is partly why they managed to kill Netscape. Now it's just annoying. Though, the awesome thing is, Google managed to effectively sneak their entire broswer rendering system into previous versions of IE with the Google Chrome Frame that IE users were forced to download and install if they wanted to actually use Google Wave in IE, and the Frame automatically turns on when IE encounters anything to do with HTML5. The kicker? It runs much faster than IE normally does, which is hilarious.

Though, IE9 supports HTML5 now, but... If Microsoft decide to create a 'WebDirectX' for HTML5 rather than use WebGL which already exists, they can go fuck themselves.

[Badnik Mechanic]

Well i've downloaded it.

Initial impressions.... "It's good but..."

They've pushed everything to the top so you just get the webpage and it looks a lot nicer, SSMB doesn't feel as squashed as it did with IE 8.

Now for my biggest complaint... everything that was on the left (favourites) is now on the right. And everything that was on the right/middle... is now on the left. This makes it a big pain to navigate.

It feels a bit faster than I.E 8 did, and oddly webpages look a lot nicer too.

[Badnik Mechanic]

Double post... hooray.

I have uninstalled I.E. 9.

The reason? The fact that the favourite icon is on the right side of the screen... as barking mad as that sounds it's such a dramatic change it makes the browser shockingly difficult to use, I've had that icon on the left side for years, so why they've moved it is beyond me.

[Kevin]

It's an RC so it's not quite ready for prime-time.

Speeded me, but yeah, this is the release candidate and not the final version.

But anyway, I've played around with IE 9 for a bit, and while it's a step in the right direction, but it still needs improvement in my opinion. One thing I don't like is how they put the tabs on the same row as the address bar (thankfully there's an option in the RC to move it to its own row below), and the back button still looks like it's cut off a bit at the bottom part like in the beta version. I'm surprised to this day IE still doesn't have a built in spell checker out of the box, and it's an important feature that should be implemented.

The other issue with IE is that Microsoft flatly refuse to adhere to the W3C web standards like every other browser does, meaning that if a page is designed for IE it'll look like ass in any other browser and vice-versa. This causes much rage from web designers sick of designing the same site twice just because IE likes to be different.

Basically this. Probably the biggest problem IE has right now is the stigma attached to it. After IE 6, Microsoft just sat around and did nothing to really update IE, and it wasn't until 2006 until IE 7 finally came out, and at the time, other browsers like Firefox were way ahead of IE. Heck, many businesses still use IE 6 because of internal applications that break under IE 7/8 and would cost lots of money to upgrade the application itself.

Personally I wish Microsoft would just scrap IE and rebuild a completely new web browser from the ground up with a different brand name it and keep it updated (i,e, 9.1, 9.2, etc) and not just make a new version every few years while other browsers continue to be constantly updated.

[Biafra Republic]

I'll pass until Windows Update issues IE9 as an Important Update. Currently happy using Firefox 4.0b11.

[Mick]

I might try IE 9, chances are I'm not going to. I'm quite content using Safari. I was an IE guy when I had my Gateway . Actually I got more into Firefox during the last days of my Gateway. If it wasn't for Firefox, I'd try IE 9. I know they have IE 9 for Mac OS X, however I don't think I'm downloading it anytime soon.

[Remynaka]

Google chrome baby. =D I might try IE 9 tho..... just cause I haven't touched IE in YEARS.......... Like 6. I didn't like the fact fact the page in IE would ALWAYS be refreshing itself... which meant ALOT of freezes and other rage worthy problems. :c