Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate

Sweet! I actually enjoyed beta of IE9..was kind of clunky in areas but overall a solid competitor. Probably a better release of past IEs.
 
I'm using the beta now on Vista and I've been meaning to uninstall it for days now and keep forgetting too. Honestly it's horrible, crashes constantly, slow to load pages, doesn't recover tabs and I could go on and on with other bugs I've found.

Actually thanks for the reminder Steve, about to get rid of it right now. :mad:
 
DuronClocker said:
If its anything like the beta, no thanks. :(
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I would have said the same about FF4, after five months of pure crap with FF betas, but then the most recent beta release seems to have fixed all of the issues I've ever had a problem with, and all at once.

Not impossible for IE to suddenly be the same?
 
My issues w/ beta:

Tab area is way too small.
Firefox-like download window = do not want

I'll be on IE8 for a while it seems
 
Running IE9 RC for a couple of hours now, seems really good. Most everything works, an exception being apple.com movies.

As far as adblock, you can use 'filter active-x' to stop active-x controls from loading on a per page basis, and it has tracking list protection so you can block tracking sites with community lists. Also I think there is an adblock extention for IE9, but I don't use it so I couldn't tell you more.

Nice and fast, looks good (important for someone who browses as much as I do), a few more bug fixes and this should be golden.
 
DuronClocker, you can now set the tabs to be listed below the address bar (right click on the browser chrome) and have a full tab bar.
 
Tolyngee said:
I would have said the same about FF4, after five months of pure crap with FF betas, but then the most recent beta release seems to have fixed all of the issues I've ever had a problem with, and all at once.

Not impossible for IE to suddenly be the same?
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Same here. FF4 was a steaming pile for months, but the last few betas have been much faster and more stable (with plug-in support).
I've always liked IE9, though. They were quicker and more stable than the older FF4 betas, and more customizable than Chrome.
I've only used it for about 10 minutes, but IE9 RC is working more or less the same way the beta did.
 
devil22 said:
DuronClocker, you can now set the tabs to be listed below the address bar (right click on the browser chrome) and have a full tab bar.
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I see that.. just installed it. Looks a bit better than the beta so far, and the tab thing was huge for me.

I haven't tried downloading anything yet, but I suppose I can get used to it. That was just a minor issue I had with it compared to the tab area.
 
hmm .. couldn't download IE9 from microsoft .. had to dl from another site .. just gave me a blank page. It be trying to hop through an adserver before it gets to the actual download window perhaps .. so spybot or spywareblaster or my smoothwall box are blocking the site causing it to come up blank.
 
Stoly said:
No adblock no IE
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. said:
Does it still kill GTA IV?
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Tolyngee said:
I would have said the same about FF4, after five months of pure crap with FF betas, but then the most recent beta release seems to have fixed all of the issues I've ever had a problem with, and all at once.

Not impossible for IE to suddenly be the same?
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DuronClocker said:
My issues w/ beta:

Tab area is way too small.
Firefox-like download window = do not want

I'll be on IE8 for a while it seems
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caddys83 said:
Didn't like the beta. I guess I'll stick to IE8 as long as I can :(
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You'd think users in this forum would know better. It was beta, so yeah it'll crash and contain bugs and all that. That's why it was still beta. Try not to be so narrow as to think RC or final will be anything like the beta. At least give it a fair shake.

That said, I'm trying it on my computer when I get home. If all of my work's web apps work at home, I'll install IE9 on my work computer when it gets out of RC stage.
 
Ok, installed RC b/c I still prefer IE as my browser of choice, so far seems smoother and faster than beta was. Still needs to be quicker imo, but hopefully MS get's it there. I've been on beta since release so I'd say I'm giving it a "fair shake" to say the least.

Still on IE8 on the desktop and will leave it that way until final of IE9 is released, hopefully by that time my Sandybridge build will be complete once the new boards are released. I was waiting on boards from Evga & Asus Max or RE boards to be released before I made my decision, guess I'll be waiting a bit longer.

Back on topic, I like the tab change and hopefully they dump the FF style download window/box w/e you wanna call it. As far as crashes go, we shall see how it goes.
 
I have been running IE9 since the beta first came out. I haven't had hardly any problems with it. It has crashed a couple times (CNN video's), but otherwise been fairly stable.
 
One thing everyone keeps missing regarding the tabs area is that you can not only put the tabs on their own row BUT you can also resize the tab area/address bar by clicking and dragging. Need less address bar and more tab space? Drag the slider to the left. Put your mouse cursor over the little area of space (UI chrome) between the address bar and the tabs.

Also Ed Bott has a great 4-page article on all things IE9 RC and how to take advantage of some of the new privacy features and advertisement blocking here: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/ie9-...wser-bet-pay-off/2954?tag=mantle_skin;content

Also you can check out the new demos of some of these new features on the IE9 Test drive site here: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
 
Nice, I just installed the new RC, and it's improved. You can put the tabs on a seperate row from the address bar now. Very nice. IE's tab handling features are pretty good at the moment. I love being able to detatch a tabl an move it to it's own window or to another open IE window.
 
I loved the IE9 Beta, but I still can't figure out why IE9 doesn't have a built-in spellchecker. I'd use IE9 exclusively, if that were the case.
 
If Microsoft ever decided to allow ad blocking like firefox does I'd think about trying it. I really can not browse the net anymore with out an adblocker. I wish FF supported adblocking on their android browser.
 
DJ Lushious said:
I loved the IE9 Beta, but I still can't figure out why IE9 doesn't have a built-in spellchecker. I'd use IE9 exclusively, if that were the case.
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This too, Adblocker (all their plugins) + Built In Spell Checker = Firefox
 
How's the hardware acceleration working out for everyone? That's one feature which stood out to me when the beta was going on.
 
Azhar said:
You'd think users in this forum would know better. It was beta, so yeah it'll crash and contain bugs and all that. That's why it was still beta. Try not to be so narrow as to think RC or final will be anything like the beta. At least give it a fair shake.
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To be fair pretty much everyone you quoted was complaining about missing features and things they just plain didn't like, not bugs.
 
I wonder if it still breaks "open file location"? - Which the beta has done to me and even with my vast knowledge of GoogleFu I still can't fix the bloody thing.
 
Honestly, I did kinda like the RC. The beta was well... beta. But this has much more of the feel of a refined product.

The tabs are a bit larger, and honestly it's a hell of a lot faster.
 
I wish the status bar had more status. There seems to be no progress bar. It also does not mention that Protected Mode is enabled. Like many others I wish it had a spell checker. Overall it isn't as bad as I was expecting though. I'll likely end up using it when it goes final.
 
Azhar said:
You'd think users in this forum would know better. It was beta, so yeah it'll crash and contain bugs and all that. That's why it was still beta. Try not to be so narrow as to think RC or final will be anything like the beta. At least give it a fair shake.
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Azhar, FF4 beta was unusable for me for five months, then suddenly usable and nearly 100% stable in the most recent beta.

It would lock up or crash every five minutes. It was like that for five months. Some betas made it worse, as regular sites like IMDB, CNN, Amazon and Youtube were completely unusable with it. IMDB's front page alone would either cause FF to go either unresponsive or crash.

I am giving FF a fair shake, that's why I'm using the f-ing beta so they can see my reports every five min so they can fix them? The only times they weren't seeing the reports is when I had to actually do something and would use IE so it wouldn't crash.

But when you've been sending dozens upon dozens of reports daily every day for almost half a year, why is it narrow thinking to be (even pleasantly) surprised when everything just suddenly works once the RC is either here or very near?

In my experience, FF4b11 and even just FF4b10 is an absolutely night and day difference.

FWIW - FF4b10, that's right, even just the previous beta, would have either gone responsive or crashed in the time it took to type this response, even if [H] was the only thing I was doing with it. But, with 11, everything's great, and I even have Amazon/CNN/IMDB/Youtube tabs open right now. Sudden night and day difference.

I don't believe I am being narrow, and I used FF4bxx to give it a fair shake. That's what betas are for? But half a year of nothing but utter, utter crap with it, it's almost shocking to see the next beta suddenly fix everything finally, and all at once.

Lesser beta testers would have given up on it months ago! (IMDB & Youtube were guaranteed crashers for five months. And I don't even mean 5-min crashers, I mean insta-crash...)
 
Tolyngee said:
Lesser beta testers would have given up on it months ago! (IMDB & Youtube were guaranteed crashers for five months. And I don't even mean 5-min crashers, I mean insta-crash...)
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I'd also like to note that it was suggested to me I had a corrupted profile.

Even a clean install of FF4bxx on a clean install of 7 (yes, even went that far)... IMDB insta-crash.

So, unless FF4b11 fixed my supposed corrupt profile, the problem was FF.

So yeah, I was a proper FF beta tester, and even did what they suggested. A clean OS install is as drastic step as you can take to determine if it's your system. It wasn't. (Well, exception being looking a hardware, but as a gaming machine my system is 100% stable. Going over three months without a reboot is as rock-solid as you're ever going to hope for...)

For all of this to suddenly be solved in one new beta, yes, I am almost shocked.

Oops. IE9RC is the topic. Sorry mods, if you want to delete my responses, go ahead. But my point still stands that the IE9RC can possibly be a drastic difference from the IE9 betas from my personal experience with beta testing.
 
+1 re the spell checker. I am too poor a typer not to have one.

Also, i like that moving tabs around between windows is now like Chrome, where you are able to see the contents, as opposed to the ff beta where all you get is a little arrow.

That being said, I still don't think it's quite fast enough, compared to Chrome10 for me to switch, but for all of those people out there that use IE and get a new machine with IE9 on it standard, they will be getting a world-class browser, and not a joke.
 
Want to block ads use a HOSTS file i don't see why people complain about ad blockers IE has a shit ton of those, i rather use something more indiscriminate to browsers.

As far as spell check, seriously T_T
 
Pinch zooming is DRAMATICALLY better in this release and finger scrolling is even a bit better. Pinch zooming smoothness still depends on the site. Engadget isn't very smooth for instance.but vBulletin sites like [H]ardForum are very much so. Of course it's not iPad ultra-smooth But this is on the fly scaling of the page elements and when you disable add-ins it's very much like iPad smoothness. Well done Microsoft. This is big deal to slate folks and a definite step in the right direction.
 
heatlesssun said:
Pinch zooming is DRAMATICALLY better in this release and finger scrolling is even a bit better. Pinch zooming smoothness still depends on the site. Engadget isn't very smooth for instance.but vBulletin sites like [H]ardForum are very much so. Of course it's not iPad ultra-smooth But this is on the fly scaling of the page elements and when you disable add-ins it's very much like iPad smoothness. Well done Microsoft. This is big deal to slate folks and a definite step in the right direction.
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I downloaded the RC and I cannot pinch zoom or finger scroll :(
 
Why do I have to restart my PC after installing an internet browser? :eek:rolleyes:
 
my issue with not being able to access the menu on youtube remains i click it does nothing. IE8 was driving me insane with it asking if i want to display secure objects every single page i went to even if i told it never to ask me again...
 
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