Internet Explorer 9 beta: The beauty of the web

[burtie]

If they let us customise it a bit more and move things around it will be perfect.
I still cant stop using chrome though

 

[bigcitycat]

IE 9 with privoxy hauls ass.

 

[kenC]

Well, it didn't work for me. It sent the menu to the top but only if I pressed Alt. It also changed the colour of my tabs to a dark green !! Had to use the default to get rid.

 

[madtownidiot]

IE9.. just about as fast as firefox 3.6 in the peacekeeper benchmark.. if you bench firefox with 3 open tabs while installing IE9 and defragging your HDD simultaneously

 

[MattRainier]

Alright guys...somebody asked me how I got IE9 64-bit as my default browser and the answer is, by going into "Internet Options" >> "Programs" >> "Make default". It tells you you can't do it, but in reality you can. My screenshots:

 

[jebuchanan]

I still had to use the Adobe player for watching videos, but I installed the x64 beta. Seems to run OK

 

[kenC]

Just found this review of IE9 : Internet Explorer 9 review | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Scroll down under the article for some interesting (and idiotic) posts.

 

[24c]

Alright guys...somebody asked me how I got IE9 64-bit as my default browser and the answer is, by going into "Internet Options" >> "Programs" >> "Make default". It tells you you can't do it, but in reality you can. My screenshots:

When you open up an email link, or something else that the default browser would open, is it opened by IE 9 64 bit?

Several of us got it set to what we thought was 64 as the default, only to find the 32 bit was actually used to open links.

 

[MattRainier]

Pretty sure... This what I get when I open the links from the taskbar (another really cool feature of IE9).

 

[geekfreak]

from what i saw of the beta, i'll wait till the full version comes out to test it again. left me wanting.

 

[geekfreak]

IE9.. just about as fast as firefox 3.6 in the peacekeeper benchmark.. if you bench firefox with 3 open tabs while installing IE9 and defragging your HDD simultaneously

any chance of getting a copy of the larger pic you used for you sig?

 

[madtownidiot]

any chance of getting a copy of the larger pic you used for you sig?

If I still had it.. you can find one just like it with a search for "too many toolbars"
edit.. found it ..I've never seen one that bad in my own experience, but I can easily imagine what using that particular system must've been like

 

[jebuchanan]

I find it needs a better download manager .

 

[Skulblaka]

I find it needs a better download manager .

Perhaps an entirely new OS, whoever it is, they're running Vista. :shock:

 

[madtownidiot]

I find it needs a better download manager .

Perhaps an entirely new OS, whoever it is, they're running Vista. :shock:

What it needed is a new user.. The guy's name was probably Pebkac

 

[geekfreak]

any chance of getting a copy of the larger pic you used for you sig?

If I still had it.. you can find one just like it with a search for "too many toolbars"
edit.. found it ..I've never seen one that bad in my own experience, but I can easily imagine what using that particular system must've been like

it's one of those times the person ask you to fix the comp for them, and you opt to just blow it up.

 

[stormy13]

Mad you're missing a few,



What's a browser without everyone's favorite purple ape.

:roflmao:

 

[derekimo]

Mad you're missing a few,

View attachment 98495

What's a browser without everyone's favorite purple ape.

:roflmao:

That's great! :roflmao:

 

[madtownidiot]

forgot all about that one :roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

 

[Night Hawk]

Love the title of the thread here. But for those still running XP or even the XP Mode there's also some not so surprizing bad news. Microsoft's IE9 off limits to most Windows PCs

Microsoft's IE9 off limits to most Windows PCs

Two-thirds of the world's Windows machines still run XP, which can't run IE9

By Gregg Keizer
September 16, 2010 01:45 PM ET

Computerworld - Microsoft may have a tough time building significant market share for its new Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) browser because eligible users are in the minority.

Several analysts agreed that Microsoft has its work cut out for it, at least in the short term, because IE9 won't run on Windows XP, the aged-but-still-dominant operating system.

Microsoft omitted the still-popular XP from the supported OS list because, among other things, IE 9 speeds up page rendering and composition by tapping the graphics processor in newer PCs. Windows XP lacks support for the Direct2D API, which IE9 uses to accelerate content rendering.

That's a reality check for the almost 10yr. old version as well as for the new XP Mode option. When I get back into the testing image here I'll be taking a look to see if the beta will or won't go on the XP Mode there.

And the UPDATE on XP and XP Mode is:

As suspected Not Good for either! as you can see from the attempt at installing IE 9 beta on the XP Mode. Any VM would be out anyways for lacking direct vpu access for the hardware rendering part.