That's it! Done with IE9 already.

[Catswold]

I've had it. I waited, after a couple of early, pre-release uses, for IE9 to come to me through Windows Update. Now, after a week of use, I have uninstalled it.

I spend close to 10 hours a day on my computer, either writing or surfing, so I get a lot of practice, very quickly with a program like IE9. I figure that if I am still making irritating errors after a week of use, then the program isn't user friendly enough.

My complaint? There is something about the way the tabs are set up that causes my casual stroke of the cursor to close a tab rather than to call it up. It doesn't happen all of the time, but it happens often enough to lead to my saying "Enough!!!!"

After a week of usage, I have probably closed 2 doaen tabs in that manner at, critical to my purpose, times. I then have to go back and search up the site, find the page upon which I was conducting my research and find my place, reorganize my thoughts and get started again.

I don't quite know what the problem is, but I do know that I never did that with IE8, so . . . GOODBYE IE9.

Sorry for the rant, but my frustration level finally reached a boiling point.

Some change is good, but the interface for IE9 sucks.

Cheers.

 

[DeaconFrost]

I can't say I am able to duplicate your issue. You also know you can just quickly pull up your history and go right back to the page you were on, right?

As for the interface, I love it. It's clean, and shows more of the actual web page.

 

[alphanumeric]

If you right click on an open tab there is an "Reopen closed tab" option and a "Recently closed tabs" option. Just something to keep in mind if you ever deside to try IE9 again.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/133191-internet-explorer-9-open-recently-closed-tabs.html

 

[noobvious]

I installed it, but purely as a backup....I'm Firefox guy.

 

[fseal]

Well each tab has a close box on it. So it's easy to accidentally hit the close box on the tab when you are merely trying to switch to it. Some browsers have the close box off o the side (a single one that closes the curently selected tab). I actually prefer that because if you are switching between tabs a lot, you WILL accidentally close one without meanting too sooner or later. I have the same problem with a binary editor I have where I need to switch tabs rapidly and am always closing them by mistake because the mouse was one pixel too far to the right when I cliecked on the tab

On the other hanbd, having a close box way off to the side is a weird PITA under normal circumstances and would probably bother more people than the way it is on IE. You can never completely win.

 

[Imperfect1]

To expand a bit on DeaconFrost's suggestion to most easily re-access your recently closed tabs:

From any IE page go into History and click on the down-arrow 6 to the right of the ‘View by’ option. In the drop-down menu select: “View by order visited today” and the first entry should be the last tab you were on.

 

[Wordsworth]

Fseal nails it when he says, "Well each tab has a close box on it. So it's easy to accidentally hit the close box on the tab when you are merely trying to switch to it."

I had the problem early on Catsworld but if you experiment with where you're hitting the tab it's almost right on the red X that closes the tab. Now I just make certain to hit the tab square in the middle and through that habit the problem is resolved.

 

[Mystere]

Lol. I have to laugh about this. Why? Because IE8 didn't have that problem. Know why? You had to click on a tab to activate it before the close box was visible. Why did Microsoft change it? Because people bitched that they had to click first to close a tab, and that IE was being a nanny by trying to prevent them from accidentally closing tabs.

Just goes to show that Microsoft can't win. If they do things one way, people bitch, they do it the other, people bitch.

As Alphanumeric says, if you accidentally close a tab, just open a new tab, right click on it, and choose reopen last closed tab. You can also close IE9 and reopen all your last session tabs by going to tools->Reopen last browsing session. You can also view a list of recently closed tabs on the "blank tab" screen.

 

[DeaconFrost]

Just goes to show that Microsoft can't win. If they do things one way, people bitch, they do it the other, people bitch.

That's hitting the nail on the head...and also serves as the perfect remedy/explanation to all the anti-Microsoft product threads we see. When you create a product billions of people will use....you can't make them all happy.

A friend of mine once said if Microsoft attached $100 to each of their products, people will complain that it wasn't $500.

 

[logicearth]

CTRL + SHIFT + T reopens last closed TAB. Can be used repeatedly to open multiple closed tabs in order.

 

[MacGyvr]

I love IE...the only thing that keeps me in Firefox is the wealth of addons. I have about 20 installed that I simply can't live without. I wish IE ha that type of functionality.

 

[Catswold]

Lol. I have to laugh about this. Why? Because IE8 didn't have that problem. Know why? You had to click on a tab to activate it before the close box was visible. Why did Microsoft change it? Because people bitched that they had to click first to close a tab, and that IE was being a nanny by trying to prevent them from accidentally closing tabs.

Just goes to show that Microsoft can't win. If they do things one way, people bitch, they do it the other, people bitch.

As Alphanumeric says, if you accidentally close a tab, just open a new tab, right click on it, and choose reopen last closed tab. You can also close IE9 and reopen all your last session tabs by going to tools->Reopen last browsing session. You can also view a list of recently closed tabs on the "blank tab" screen.

Very true, the problem with the solutions available is that they still require a mental reset. Once my train of thought is broken, I invariably lose track--usually accompanied by a few choice words.

I know it's a personal failing, but hey, as Popeye used to say, "I-yam what I-yam."

Not a big problem, and I appreciate the helpful suggestions. I think that I will stick with IE8 for now.

 

[MilesAhead]

I love IE...the only thing that keeps me in Firefox is the wealth of addons. I have about 20 installed that I simply can't live without. I wish IE ha that type of functionality.

You might be able to satisfy your plugin addiction with MaxThon browser. It uses IE engine. I haven't used it in years but for awhile I enjoyed the user-written plugins and the community around them.

I was big into Firefox, even running the portable out of a ram disk because it loads off the drive so slowly otherwise. Now it's mostly as a backup. I'm using Chromium nightly builds. I only have 7 extensions installed and I have bookmark and password sync, xml formatting etc.. everything I need. My one complaint is AutoCopy kept failing when I updated, so I wrote my own as a hotkey utility.

Once I tried Chromium I got rid of FF portable and the ram disk. Chromium just leaps off the HD. Man it's fast!! It uses multiple processes but that's what multitasking multicore PCs are for.

afa IE and multi-tab, well it took them a long time to get on the bandwagon. Not much in the way of experience. Plus I don't like the idea that nasty code figures it's always there so latch a BHO onto it. Got hit with that once! Now I never use IE or any IE based browser.

 

[logicearth]

If you are not seeing incompatibility, you are not doing real-world, event-driven Javascript.

Wrong forum, and wrong conclusion. The incompatibility is the result of developers that do not know how to write cross-browser javascript.

 

[stve]

The big change from IE8 with IE9 is that by default tabs & address bar share the same space so open 30 tabs in both browsers & IE9 tabs will be crammed together like sardines in a can making it more likely you will hit the close button by mistake.
If you right click on the tab bar the bottom option is show tabs on a separate row which may help.

 

[M1GU31]

firefox 4 life ye i preffer firefox over IE. Only time i use IE is to download stuff with the download manger app i use because i have no idea how to make it work with firefox