Internet Explorer 9

[Toyboy]

Has anyone downloaded IE9 yet? I'm looking for feedback on how it's different (good or bad) than IE8 ?

 

[rekees4300]

IE is Microsoft crapware. Switch to Firefox 4 and you will never go back to IE.

BTW read somewhere that IE9 wont run under Windows XP so you may want to research that if you have XP.

 

[JDgreen227]

Has anyone downloaded IE9 yet? I'm looking for feedback on how it's different (good or bad) than IE8 ?

Been running IE9 on my three Vista computers for some time, have never had any problems and I don't know why people badmouth it. Cannot really tell any difference from IE8.

 

[cdaigle430]

IE is Microsoft crapware. Switch to Firefox 4 and you will never go back to IE.

BTW read somewhere that IE9 wont run under Windows XP so you may want to research that if you have XP.

It never seizes to amaze me how some anti-Microsoft person always chimes in with their opinion about how much another browser is better even when not asked.
I don't think anyone asked about Firefox unless I missed something?

Anyway-IE9 is definately an improvement over IE8 but you can't use it if your running XP as the poster I quoted suggested. I have been using it on my Vista Ultimate laptop and desktop since it was beta and like IE8 I never had a problem and I love it.


By the way,

Anyone reading this thread-I challange anyone to download IE9, and Firefox, and Safari and Chrome (yes you can have all of them installed on the same machine) and compare for yourselves. I have firefox and Safari but I always, always use IE8, IE9 unless I run into an issue with a website. These days thats so few and far between and when I do go Firefox the problem in IE also occurs in Firefox. Usually when that happens it's because the web programmer is anti-microsoft or they outa date.

Hey-it's free to download anyway......

 

[JDgreen227]

It never seizes to amaze me how some anti-Microsoft person always chimes in with their opinion about how much another browser is better even when not asked.
I don't think anyone asked about Firefox unless I missed something?

Anyway-IE9 is definately an improvement over IE8 but you can't use it if your running XP as the poster I quoted suggested. I have been using it on my Vista Ultimate laptop and desktop since it was beta and like IE8 I never had a problem and I love it.

Hey-it's free to donwload anyway......

Yeah, I always wonder why people badmouth IE but never tell us what their gripe is about it. You wouldn't believe how many people badmouth my choice of Kaspersky Internet Security suite, although I am very happy with it a lot of folks tell me it's crap but they cannot really give me specifics as to why they feel that way...go figure.

 

[zene55]

IE9 is much faster than IE8 was on all 3 of my machines. I have had no problems with it.

 

[jwstewar]

I've been running IE9 RC on my Windows 7 64-bit machine since August. I haven't had any problems with it. Once the final version came out, I installed that on it. I've also installed it on our 2 Vista laptops - again no problems. On my previous desktop running Vista 64-bit I ran IE8 w/o any issues. As a programmer I try to stay up on the latest trends, so I kept hearing everyone say how great Firefox and Chrome was. Downloaded them to give them a try. I forget which way it was, but one of them I didn't like at all and had all kinds of problems from the get-go so it only made it a couple of days (I think Chrome). Then I went to the other one. I made an honest attempt for probably 2 weeks with it. Found myself having to load IE all of the time because something wouldn't work on FF. Finally gave up, went back to IE and all has been well again.

 

[teg]

...I made an honest attempt for probably 2 weeks with it. Found myself having to load IE all of the time because something wouldn't work on FF. Finally gave up, went back to IE...

I never had anything not work with FF... but I guess I'm not a power user. For me, blocking all the ads is the main reason... if I could not do that, I would have signed off TBN the day the JD ad showed up under the "My Home" tab... I normally ran IE up until then.

 

[Pixguy]

I picked up a new Win7 PC last week and downloaded IE9 when prompted. I decided I did not like that they made the tab smaller and favorites star was gone. I played with it but decided to unload it.

I guess I just hate change and wonder why they change the way stuff looks all the time, when it's not broke. Make it faster, but don't mess with the names, icons or task bars.
I do love Win7 after having on my laptop for 6 months.

But that's me and my $.02.



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[phiferpharm]

I just purchased a new laptop with Windows 7, but have been warned by IT at the college I teach for to not use IE9 yet. I don''t think it is an Explorer problem, I think the College needs to fix some issues on our end with some proprietary software. College warned the students and faculty, but a few non-believers tried anyway and crashed. Not a major problem, they just switched to FF until further notice.