IE9 RC Released

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Thanks for that. Installed seamlessly and updated IE8 without issue. New facelift. ...I'm still preferring FF though.

 

Problems on Gmail though. Otherwise, nice!

 

Well I have an issue with the 64-bit RC not opening. All I get is a spinning cursor for like 20 seconds, then it closes. 32-bit works fine (posting this from it).

 

Hmmm...I am running the 64-bit RC. But I wonder if the problem with Gmail is to do with this. I should think not. Any ideas?

 

Did they fix the blurry font issue (some web sites) with GPU acceleration enabled?

 

I just got on the Sony Style website and the menus to open when you hover over the different categories do not disappear when you move away from then. Rather, they overlap and block the actual page content. Only fixed by refreshing and not mousing over those portions by accident.

 

My gmail experience, since the upgrade (2 hours ago), has been awful. Fonts in the reply field are super tiny, though normal size when they show up in the email. And, when sending, it hangs with the "sending..." on top of the screen and never updates the conversation unless I refresh.

Looks like I'll be downgrading soon.

 

I have the same problem. But I don't have a problem with the hanging and the not updating. On my set up all that happens fine, but the fonts etc are terrible. I wonder what the problem is! Can someone who has installed a 32-bit version confirm that the same problem occurs with it too? Thanks in advance.

Btw, I will not be downgrading though!

 

Thanks - just updated and it works fine for me.

Googlemail seems fine - and my Maths site now has a working menu again (the submenus disappeared before)

I can confirm though that the SonyStyle menus don't autoclose.

 

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Does anybody know if the Adobe PDF add-ons from Acrobat X work in IE9?

 

Acrobat 9 Professional worked with the Beta and as far as I can tell works with 9 RC too.

-> So unless Adobe has been very negligent I cannot see why it wouldn't work.

 

Just spent a few moments with it... It certainly has improved but I still much prefer the feel and layout of Firefox 4 beta.

 

Sorry I'm new to this, but if I download and install IE9 RC, will I have to uninstall it when the official IE9 comes out on windows update?

EDIT: also do I have to uninstall IE8 before going to IE9 RC?

 

IE8 should be uninstalled automatically.

When the final version comes out you can most likely just overwrite it - at least Beta to RC worked that way. That could change though.

Does it really matter though?

 

Just installed it about an hour ago. Everything seems to work just fine for me!

I'm VERY impressed.

 

Very impressed by IE9 - but, when is Flash 10.2 going to be supported, and is there a way to save account names/passwords?

 

Flash 10.2 is already supported.

 

Aside from Anseio and me, no one has a problem with how Gmail is rendered in the RC?

 

GMail renders fine on all of my machines that have the RC, I'm using both x86 and x64...

Sorry...

 

Oh...thanks! I have no idea what's going on with Gmail on my machine. It happened with the Beta too, but I was able to fix that through the Compatibilty settings. But in the RC that fix does not work.

 

Thanks for mentionin compatibility mode. It solved my problem. Have you confirmed that it's in that mode? Tools > Compatibilty View Settings

 

Yeah...its not working for me. It worked in the Beta version though. I really don't know what to do. If I add Gmail as a "compatibility site", the gmail interfaces gets a little distorted.

If I revert back to IE8, Gmail works fine. The strange thing is that the settings in IE8 are exactly the same as the settings in the RC. This is actually driving me nuts! I just can't figure out what is going wrong.

 

Good for you. My key complaint still exists - some idiot though it's a good idea to auto forward you to the first search result in some terms... at least it's hit and miss whether you get your google results or some page...
-> So I stick with Firefox for my main browser (with it's search box)

 

I can't think of any quickly (I know there was one that sent me straight off to Wikipedia)

But if I type in (just the word, no quotes) "lego" I get the lego homepage - but maybe I wanted some background. If I type in "test" I get "test.de" which is a German site, which is odd as I am using German OS on an English version of IE9 from the UK....

 

Iv completely skipped IE all togather since I bought my laptop last month, I just use seamonkey, havent missed a beat with it. Every frigin time I want IE to work right it stops responding on me randomly. It is very frusterating and annoying. I downloaded IE 9 weeks ago, same thing also. Sea monkey on other hand has never stoped responding on me.

 

Are you sure you don't have some hardware or add-on issue?

The key thing that keeps me off IE is the lack of a really good adblocker (as good as adblock plus - the one I have, someone here recommended it, blcoks some, but not all ads) - and well, the search feature too...

 

Well, I'd say there never was a reason to want a search bar in the first place. IE has had SearchURL keys to be used for that purpose since IE6. Admittedly, they took the interface away for setting SearchURLs in IE7 (when everybody started this idiotic search-bar craze), but the SearchURLs keep working fine, and I trust they'll work in IE9 just as well.

 

I spent some more time with it... it's hard to get back to a browser which doesn't have the tabs in the titlebar.

Tabs to the right of the adress bar ? Too narrow. Below the adress bar ? Lost vertical space.

 

-> only problem is, google often has better results for me and I think the Bing site is too "spammy" - yes, I don't like the design with a background image and whathavenot, but google is getting worse too...
And to be honest, I'd rather have a search box than having to learn search abbreviations...
On that note - I don't like the 3 icons in IE either... how am I supposed to know which one hides the IE menu? I don't like icons, I need to remember them. (And I can't see a way to get the text back for them...)

To 1) On IE8 that would reset itself every time you closed the browser forcing you to restart inPrvate - does that still occur? I close my browsers a lot, I don't like open windows.

To 2) That's possibly a good choice, but it requires me to keep it up to date... and I'm lazy...

To 3) Got that, doesn't work as well as Adblock plus for me, yes, it blocks some ads, but not all.

To 4) Hmm, that could be worth a try... maybe I need to export Easylist from FF and import it in IE...

Edit:
I don't think you can add the easylist to the do not track feature...

 

Right click over one of the tabs and select "show tabs in a separate row".

 

As I said, that puts the tabs under the adress bar, wasting vertical space.

 

Btw, did you solve the Gmail issue?

 

You ignored my post. EasyList on that page is an ad blocker.

 

I installed that but the ads do appear (say for example here on NBR)

 

My understanding is that that just blocks the tracking?...

On that note though - I updated simple adblock, I think it got better.

 

How much does the GPU acceleration actually affect the browser in terms of rendering? Just curious to see what the impact of a new breed of gpu-dependent browser on the market long term and also on the type of content that will be displayed/used.

 

The laptop is brand new, tested and certafied from lenovo weeks ago. I havent had any issues with it, if you think its hardware issue just because IE is acting up then everyones computer would be ready for the trash bin. Like I said my other browser works great, never had problem. Also I haven't added any addons, thanks for your reply.

I do overclock it, update drivers when need be, and do heavy gaming sessions as well as cad/autodesk/adobe work also. Nothing out of the ordinary besides stupid IE lol.

 

Well, sometimes it's not the most stressing application that find that one bug

-> although it does make hardware a bit more unlikely.

Still, have you tried disabling all add-ons and bringing them back to life?
-> Back to overclocking - could your driver/GPU/CPU not work well with flash when doing that?

 

I only OC frequently, like when I was playing the new mmorpg RIFT, I needed some xtra frames so I did a few times, it worked really well. When I am done, I just turn it off. I dont think I have ever used the browser while overclocked.

 

OK, let's rule that out then.

-> Add-ons? Did you try disabling them?

 

I just disabled everything but shockwave, I wll post back my results if I receive another " IE is not responding" in sequence.

 

Indeed it has. Thanks.

 

No problems here IE9 32/64 bit browser versions
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I just installed IE9 x64 and I like it a lot. What a difference between it and previous IE versions.

Roboform works well with it although I wish there was a way to auto-hide Roboform's toolbar and have a single icon to activate it when needed (something I can do on IE 7 and 8).

Also, what's up with no spell check? I thought for sure by the 9th version we'd see one. Oh well, at least iespell works but not great (no longer shows the red underlines for mis-spelt words).

Something else I noticed, compared to Chrome (with the Smooth Scroll extension), scrolling in IE9 is a bit more choppy even after fine-tuning it. IMO scrolling in Chrome is much smoother.

 

This list of sites using HTML5 has drastically increased since I first checked this out in Sept.
Beauty of the Web

 

Oh the irony in the name... HTML5 will be used to spam us even more with flashy menues and stupid effects... on that note.. that website takes ages to load.

 

ages is a relative term.

 

They key parts of a website should be visible ideally within less than 1-2s -> with plain HTML that's possible, sadly nowadays you get tons of flashy elements that slow down page loading.