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Anyone think that IE9 looks like, acts like Chrome?
 

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Only thing that I know is based upon latest test, IE is faster.
 

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charles caleb colton said:
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

however, in chrome, each tab has its own address box (or whatever it's called).

both ie9 and chrome seem to waste a little bit of screen right at the top. maybe they do that so that you can drag the window around the screen?
 

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I will forever use Firefox. Until they fix the Statusbar on Chrome, this is where I'm staying
 

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Only thing that I know is based upon latest test, IE is faster.

Which test is that ?

@McSeven No they do not look alike
 

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however, in chrome, each tab has its own address box (or whatever it's called).

both ie9 and chrome seem to waste a little bit of screen right at the top. maybe they do that so that you can drag the window around the screen?

Chrome has a separate process for each Tab which makes it more secure but uses more memory but all tabs use the same address field.
If you maximize the Chrome window the tabs have no wasted space on top unlike IE9 maximized
 

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I will forever use Firefox. Until they fix the Statusbar on Chrome, this is where I'm staying
Statusbar... you mean that transient thingy in the lower left that only displays when something's going on and is hidden otherwise? Hmm, I suppose I wouldn't mind an option to toggle it on. It's not like it uses much real estate and I too would like to see it there even if it's idling most of the time.

My main beef with Chrome is the *@#%$^ download bar. As soon as you download anything in one tab, the damn download bar shows up in all tabs again, even if you'd just closed it not a few seconds ago. We can already ctrl + J if we want to see our downloads, I don't understand why they keep forcing that huge fugly bar to reappear (redundantly bloated with the most recent downloads, as if that's useful). They're taking this minimalist "see, we have only 5 settings, our browser is easy to use!" thing too far.
 

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it doesn't take much to close the download bar...

i suppose the logic is, if you downloaded something, it must be important to you, so you would want quick access to it. you say a ctrl-j is quick and easy to view downlood folder, i say a click on the X is easier still to close download bar...

i'm not bothered about a status 'bar' either - it's there when i need it.

it's great that we all have a few free browsers that we can choose from - each to his/her/its own!

it wouldn't be much fun if we were all stuck with ie8 and had to use it...
 

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It's a shame Microsoft put in a few UI touches from Chrome into IE 9 as I much preferred the IE 8 UI. Particularly the whole "One Bar" for URLs and searching annoys me and of course my other main gripe is the fact that tabs are in that same row making them really cramped.

For all the performance gains and improved standards compliance, if they could put it into the IE 8 UI, I would be so pleased.
 

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personally i love the 'omni bar' in chrome - once you've worked out how to use it properly, along with proper tab management.

haven't tried ie9 yet...

each to his own...
 

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it doesn't take much to close the download bar...

i suppose the logic is, if you downloaded something, it must be important to you, so you would want quick access to it. you say a ctrl-j is quick and easy to view downlood folder, i say a click on the X is easier still to close download bar...
Wait, see, I'm on pixiv (an image board). I regularly have like 50+ tabs open. I'm saving images every few moments. This means if I save 200 images this session, that means I've clicked that little 'x' to close the bar 200 times.

Unacceptable.

With ctrl + J, I only need to press it once and a new tab appears with a list of my downloads. I don't have to press it again, ever, for the remainder of that session. See what I'm getting at? With the damn bar, I have to close it. Every. Single. Time. (And why does it show up in all of the other tabs anyway? What's the logic behind that?) With the ctrl + J tab, I open it once then pin it and shove it aside and forget about it - later downloads simply appear on it as it gets refreshed automatically by Chrome.

Plus the ctrl + J tab already has an option to show you where the download went. For each single file, no less. Pfeh. Still, that is acceptable behaviour to me since it's confined to that tab (although I can easily imagine people getting annoyed at how those links are cluttering up their download tab...)

I mean, the solution is simple: a checkbox-style option "[ ] Display download bar after each download". You know, kinda like the download location - ask user each time or not. They've already done it for that. This isn't much different.
 

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personally i love the 'omni bar' in chrome - once you've worked out how to use it properly, along with proper tab management.

haven't tried ie9 yet...

each to his own...
My problem with the "One Bar" much like the "Omni Bar" in Chrome is that it seems like more of a regression than an advance. If I remember correctly, IE 6 had just one bar then finally, version 7 introduced the Search Box (I know other browsers did it first but just talking in IE continuity) and now version 9 decided to get rid of the Search Box and go back to just one bar.

As far as tab management, all that needs to be done is that like Chrome, like Firefox, like Opera, like pretty much every other major browser out there, tabs need to be allowed in their own row. Much like in IE 8 as well. Apart from those two things, IE 9 is pretty much superb to me but these two issues, the tabs issue being the more important of the two in my view precludes me from using it.

In the meantime, I still like to use IE 8 as it's a good middle of the road browser that's compatible with most business and corporate websites.
 

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