Microsoft seeking feedback for Internet Explorer 9

Adamd said:

2. Overall speed is not even close as fast as Safari or Firefox in overall internet viewing from what I have noticed.

IE isn't that slow compared to Firefox. That's because Firefox is a dog though. Both IE and Firefox drag behind Opera in terms of speed, and opera drags far, far behind Safari and Chrome.

personally I use Firefox. I also noticed quite a few IE installs where connectivity was lost because of the "automatically detect settings". that in itself would be reason not to use it until fixed

Ken

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See 2 tabs at the same time. Let user select 1 or 2 startpage(s) in each tap
Pause/resume downloads
let user set a download speedlimit pr tab, giving better scaling when downloading from severel places at the same time

For me FF is more confusing than IE because of the great numbers of plugin that it needs, and that activeX objects can't be used, not even in its own thread.

Burgurne said:

See 2 tabs at the same time. Let user select 1 or 2 startpage(s) in each tap
Pause/resume downloads
let user set a download speedlimit pr tab, giving better scaling when downloading from severel places at the same time

For me FF is more confusing than IE because of the great numbers of plugin that it needs, and that activeX objects can't be used, not even in its own thread.

Good ideas. what plugin's does firefox "need"?

Ken

ie8 is very fast for me...faster then firefox ...seems to be a tie with google chrome, but i have many more toolbars oepning with ie8 which i want.
only problem is that my typed urls seem to get deleted now and then .

jimbo45 said:

Hi there

IE9 should get back to basics

NO "pre defined" plugins, no stupid "Accelerators", etc etc.

The browser should just be a Browser -- no more and no less. That way it would be lightning fast.

Provide an API for any 3rd party plugins -- you'll kill 99% of viruses and nasties with this.

If people want to run scripts, adobe reader, multi media etc then this should be launched as a separate app -- not run from within the browser itself.

Cheers
jimbo

RST101 said:

I say scrap the whole internet explorer thing and go back to the drawing board and develop a whole new one that is unrelated to the IE family. I think it is a terrible browser, has always been a terrible browser and will always be a terrible browser, especially when you consider it is developed by the biggest software company on the planet.

IE for me has always been like trying to drive the garden shed through narrow country lanes, slow and cumbersome.

I totally agree with both of you.

I look at I.E. and in the context of Windows 7 it really is the last vestige of the dinosaur that the old OS's had become, and like 7 it needs not an overhaul on what's there already, but a total redesign from the ground up.

Once again, back t obasics, look at what people actually do with their browsers rather than what they think they will do.

I'd love to see tabs that can be docked to display side by side for comparative viewing, or even better, torn free of the main window and dragged off the browser to create a window of it's own.

I'm not really interested in accelerators and complexities, I want a lightning fast browser, with tabs that is fully compatible and alows me to save a download, and if I need to go away perhaps pause and resume at a later time. A propper download client within the browser.

And a proper API would be excellent, as you say it would stop a lot of the nasties getting in, at the moment MS has been kind enough to leave the back gate open and the keys in the door for far too long.

Also on the subject of browsers and the Euro edition why doesn't MS just have a folder on the desktop with the .exe files for IE, safari, FF, Chrome etc and then it can say that the choice is there all along. A little presentation from each of the mfrs pitching their product's plus points and there you go, MS proactively giving choice, and therefore, taking the wind out of the whingers sails .

My suggestion is to stop developing Internet Explorer, and gradually fade it out from Windows, the same way they did for winhlp32.exe. First stop developing it, then remove it making it available from their website, then stop even supporting it. The money or the man power wasted (because it's a waste) on IE could be better spent on other stuff, like the development of Windows. Windows 7 is good, but it could be even better if they didn't waste their time and money developing IE 8.