Internet Explorer 9 Beta 15.09.2010

It does feel/look slightly strange, but in a good way.

This might sound strange, but anyone know if the favorites can be swapped to the left side? Why did they move it?!
 
Seems pretty good.

I noticed you can't use your arrow keys in flash games as it just scrolls the website. Also can't have the option to open just one home page if you long press on the home button like in IE8.

Not too fond of the download manager either, but i've always preferred the previous IE style without any download managers.

I'm liking the smaller interface, although it'll take a bit of getting used to.
 
I tried my adblock list (in sig) and it also works with IE9 but it seems it cant be put to auto start anymore :(
 
ShakenNstirred said:
you on about your fav list?
if you lock it on , it is on the left
i like my fav list on show all the time
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Thanks, yes I was, although I never have it locked on.

The tearing tabs are a good feature.

Normally how long from a beta to an offical release?
 
Temi_D said:
Im using 64bit as well and it works perfectly...so far. Try reseting all settings

control panel > network and internet > internet options > advanced tab and click reset
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Tried that. Still no go.

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Liking IE9.

Never liked firefox just because of an address bar issue, also seems to be getting very bloated lately. Something wasn't quite right with Chrome.

IE > Firefox :)
 
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I fixed the crashing. I checked windows updates and there was a new Intel Display driver released today, (my laptop uses X4500MHD). After installing the driver and rebooting IE9 works fine.

Explains why most people here are not experiencing any issues as I assume nearly everyone has discrete graphics.
 
gurusan said:
I fixed the crashing. I checked windows updates and there was a new Intel Display driver released today, (my laptop uses X4500MHD). After installing the driver and rebooting IE9 works fine.

Explains why most people here are not experiencing any issues as I assume nearly everyone has discrete graphics.
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Yeah I think one of the DirectWrite updates included in IE9 crashed out Intel video cards and they had to update drivers.
 
Very, very impressed so far, the only thing that I could do with so far is being to re add the favourites toolbar in a way that looks less "ugly".

Having said that I've just set most of my favourites bar entries as either default home page tabs so they all open on IE9 startup, or, for a couple pinned the site to the task bar. I don't mind that things have moved around and changed a bit, it seems to work well after a couple of hours use (which hardly consitutes in depth testing I suppose)

Combined with Admuncher I really can't think of a good reason to use either Chrome 6 or Opera 10.62 at the moment, both of which are installed on this PC (i've been using Chrome as my main browser for a few months now and Opera before that.)

Oh, just thought of something - spell checker!!! You'd have thought by now if IE could see Office installed it'd let me use the spell checker.... *grumble*
 
I'm loving it so far - apart from there seems to be no progress bar when loading a page so you cannot tell if a page is loading or stalled.
 
simulatorman said:
Is this really necessary as it is just the first evaluation version?
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Depends if you want the performance improvements or not?

As part of our collaboration with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team over the past few months, Flash Player “Square” has been enhanced to directly support the hardware-accelerated graphics capabilities in the newest version of IE. Flash Player “Square” leverages the new GPU support available with Internet Explorer 9 Beta to deliver a faster and more responsive user experience. In our internal testing, we’ve seen significant improvements in Flash Player graphics performance – exceeding 35% in Internet Explorer 9 Beta compared to Flash Player running in previous versions of IE. While the performance improvements will vary based on the type of content and how it’s created, bitmap-heavy content for Flash Player will experience the greatest benefit. Content created for Flash Player that’s embedded as transparent (wmode=”transparent”) will also run more efficiently given the benefits of offloading the HTML and Flash content compositing to the GPU. Try it out by downloading the Internet Explorer 9 Beta and the Flash Player “Square” preview. We’d appreciate your feedback and observations on performance.
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