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Surprised there isn't a thread about this, but IE9 finally went RTM and is available for download from here, or here.
This is by far and away the best browser I've ever used bar none. It launches fast, and renders web pages very fast; noticeably faster than Firefox. Haven't used Chrome before, so I can't compare them together.
But this guy did, and the results speak for itself. IE9 b!tch slaps Chrome :D
Thanks for download link and short review.
Very fast installation, clean, nice interface. Fast!!!
First impression was: WTF! Give me my interface back! (I can't stand not having the Menu bar above address bar :D).
After some little tweaking (had to re-tweak security a bit as well), I am impressed. The rendering looks much beter for me and is remarkably faster than other browsers (got FF 4 latest beta, Opera and IE8).
I am also surprised at how fast and also easy to use Internet Explorer 9 is too!
Well done Microsoft!!!
John
actually really good!
It's performance is OK though the interface sucks a lot.
I've been using it quite a bit over the last few weeks and i really like it
I have it since the beta release and I must admit it's really well done...fast and stylish! :up:
The clean interface is one of the best parts about it!Quote:
Originally Posted by ubuntu83
I still like FF's interface more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zaskar
there's something really wrong with that teste. At my home and at my job chrome is muuuuuuuch faster than in this video.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carfax
I did some testing with IE9 RC, FF4 RC and Chrome 10 on peacekeeper
http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/3866/fffail.png
Anyone found a trick to move menu bar on the top? "ITBar7Position"=1 doesn't work.
And where is the progress bar?
hmmmmm i will try
I tested the JS engines of all the major browsers yesterday using Sunspider when I did the IE9 update. I made sure Opera, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and IE were all at their latest versions. As it turns out, IE 9's JS engine is the fastest, followed closely by Opera.
IE9: 276ms
Opera: 307ms
Chrome: 341ms
Safari: 446ms
FF: 958ms
Note that JS performance doesn't determine how fast a browser is overall, so don't mistake me for having made such a claim. It is, however, an important aspect of any modern browser. I find it interesting how Chrome doesn't lead the way in that field. They aren't usually the fastest, but they sure started the recent wave of JS engine improvement a couple of years back. The worst score here is better than the best score of any browser on this same laptop from a couple of years ago.
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Regarding IE9 specifically: It really messes up the WebBrowser control in .NET apps when they call .Print(). Everything is all jacked up now. It seems to be due to new compatibility modes, but it causes fun stuff like weird padding around elements and entirely missing characters. It's the same thing the betas did. Whitespace can be eliminated by adding compatibility mode directives to the HTML or setting manual compatibility levels in the registry.
Way to do it in HTML:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx
(Skip down to the "Understanding Content Attribute Values" header.)
Registry:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx
There's a big difference between 32- and 64-bit versions.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/i...e_skin;content
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/...-explorer.aspx
I ran the beta/RC for quite a while and found it to be quite buggy - I am not seeing the same bugs in this RTM. Good job MS. And I think I've finally gotten used to the favorites being on the left.
Sounds like Microsoft finally make IE worth something.
BUT! Is there adblock for IE9? :p:
& noscript, which is why I will never leave firefox :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Sparky
I wonder if they release this on windows update or you need to manually update
You can use tracking protection lists and you don't need to install any extensionQuote:
Originally Posted by Sparky
http://dayngo.com/static/filter.html
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Br...s/Default.html
Chrome just updated to 10.0.648.134 on my PC. Also IE9 RC was very buggy for me. From the reviews it seems the RTM version of IE9 is much better. Can you compare IE9 RTM vs new version of Chrome on peacekeeper?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lokinhow
Im assuming its gone forever, on IE8 it made whatever was under the menubar revert to the older non aero theme. With IE9 it is much more integrated, I doubt they would let you split it up.Quote:
Originally Posted by nijel
Yeah, I guess you're right. The Group Policy doesn't work also.:(
are there any type of ad-blocks on this thing like firefox? i can stand a page loading a few milliseconds slower, but what i can't stand are ads. the only thing i use firefox for is the adblock
Do you read this thread?
Post 19.
yes i read all the posts, but if you tried this browser yourself with those TPLs, it doesn't work and ads still work as normal... unless i'm still doing something wrong. i'm still sticking with FF until there's an option or add on to disable adsQuote:
Originally Posted by nijel
Go to tools>manage add-ons>tracking protection and make sure the lists are enabled.Quote:
Originally Posted by WhiteFireDragon
The TPL list work for me, but i see a http://i52.tinypic.com/357g3gn.png (blue circle) in the ad place.
Anyway to remove that http://i52.tinypic.com/357g3gn.png?
IE what??? JK...
This time around Microsoft got it right, always used firefox but this might take the cake.
It's lightning fast when it comes to load ASP sites, but it's not that much faster rendering the rest of the sites.
I've had several problems with it, the first one when trying to navigate this forums.
Perhaps it's because of the language package, I don't know.
Still it's a nice browser. I'm certainly going to use it.
little simple tweak tool for IE9 (TweakIE9) here http://www.itknowledge24.com/ on essential downloads
so that youtube review is bs...Quote:
No, this is not due to caching. Both Chrome and IE perform advanced caching, and as I said in the video description, these tests were performed "warm" with both browsers using caching. The reason Chrome is slower here is the auto-discovery of a web proxy. IE does this very fast. Chrome does this slowly. See my video response for a demonstration. With auto-discovery of the proxy off, Chrome is just as fast as IE9.
well its ms so im not surprised :P
gonna give it a try but i wont use it, simply because its ms... :P
The real question would be is there support for current HTML , PHP & CSS coding???
You would think seeing how Microsoft pretty much governs the computer industry that they would be ahead of the curve on all of the standard coding formats, but they aren't! :yepp:
Still does not render my blog properly even after installing IE9 :rolleyes:
man whats the problem with microsoft? Safari Firefox, chrome all render it properly but still no love from this junk program:clap:
Easylist subscribed to IE 9 and TPL module enabled but no ads blocked? I don't get it.
That's subjective :ROTF: I think I'll pass :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by Carfax
*kuch*Quote:
Originally Posted by Carfax
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr5zK...watch_response
Ads!? HA! Thats good to know. I dont like ads
It's better then ie8.
But still not much for customizing the toolbars.
I think it changed up the theme files...
Not the dll's, but the theme's themselves.
I have to start a theme from scratch again :\.
I had to do a 2nd fresh install of windows because I hastily copied over my mods to the new install thinking it would be alright.
It was not...
Redid all my mods from scratch except the modded aero theme it's self, all good.
I'll compare my mods from the previous to see if those were the cause or the theme it's self.
To make sure..., I suspect it was the theme though.
All because of a new IE, more work then sp1 lol.
OK, I recently had a problem with IE9 where it was rendering web pages very slowly. At first I thought it was my connection, but after doing some tests, it definitely wasn't that. So I uninstalled IE9 and then installed Google Chrome, and sure enough, the problems disappeared.
That was the first time I have ever tried Google Chrome, and I didn't like it to be honest. Not having a drop down window for the address bar is inexcusable!
So I installed IE9 again, and the problems I had with it previously were completely gone. I think that GPU driver installation has the potential to screw up IE9 in a big way, since it uses hardware rendering for web pages and such. And I know that before the 270.51 drivers, I was installing/uninstalling drivers rather frequently to see if any of them could solve the Crysis 2 flickering problem..
Anyway, having used both Google Chrome and IE9 now, I can say with all honestly that IE9 is definitely superior. It not only renders web pages faster than Google Chrome (atleast on my machine), but the overall layout is a lot more efficient than Chrome and just as clean.
I haven't updated my vga drivers either.
It's probably one of the requirements for stability and such.
Write your blog properly :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Brother Esau
+1Quote:
Originally Posted by [XC] Oj101
Ie is always picky with what it splurts out on the screen.. if its not written perfect it'll come out crap
whereas others (I found) have a bit of give for whatever reason and seem more lax.
Lol if youre blog isn't coming out on the worlds most popular browser its on you buddy! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Brother Esau
Well its out today on Win Update.
Image Raid first then let her rip and see how it is.
All of our work machines just had it come through as an update, the interface is chunky and ugly :(
Yeah when I tried the beta it seemed ok, but like you said the interface is ugly and will take some getting used to.Quote:
Originally Posted by [XC] Oj101
*Stares at the IE9 interface ... pause ... google definition for chunky and ugly.... yep just what i thought those two words meant.*Quote:
Originally Posted by Buckeye
Quick question: What resolution you guys using IE9 on? 800x600?
XKCD's April Fools 3D mode does not work with IE9.
That makes Firefox 4 the best browser for it since it's the only other with GPU acceleration (Opera and Chrome render it really slow).
Funny how the GPU accel in IE9 ends up being kinda useless if any site that's not a tech demo made by Microsoft wont work with it...
2048*1536 :)Quote:
Originally Posted by syn.
It's a work machine, we're all 1280*1024 :rolleyes:
The current Opera beta does have hardware 3D acceleration. You can try it if you want to see the current state of development:
http://snapshot.opera.com/labs/webgl...1_WebGL_en.exe
http://xk3d.xkcd.com/
^ Seems to render fine in the 11.50 beta and also IE9. Speed isn't bad under Opera 11.01 either, imo, despite being software.
Haha yeah no idea what they're talking about. IE9 is as clean as any other browser. It's now my primary browser for everyday use, I have no reason to use Chrome anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Syn.
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r...9QuickView.png
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r.../win31-1-1.png
Am I the only one who sees a similarity? Make Windows 3.1 24-bit colour and you have I.E.9 :shrug:
Weird, it does render fine in IE9 for me. It did not last Friday...Quote:
Originally Posted by Particle
Also, good to know Opera 11.5 is adding GPU acceleration (I'm using Opera 11.01 as secondary browser)
haters will hate. i use firefox and ie9 both are fine. ie9 is slightly slower at loading stuff it seems but maybe thats me being crazy
I like 7 the most, anyone else?
Somewhat related. IE 9 on mobiles owns iphone and android.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqvWb...layer_embedded
ive been using for about a week now and i can say every time i open it i really am impressed... I use FF4 / IE8 @ work and IMHO IE9 takes the cake easy.
Some java doesn't work with it, ie the Asus Bios history selection on the asus webpage
Does IE9 support CSS3?
At this point I would say that all browsers have feature equality. Choice is mostly a matter of preference.
Main differences now is pretty much how each one handles HTML5.Quote:
Originally Posted by cegras
Mozilla chose the WebM/Theora format for video, whereas Chrome chose X264 (Not sure about Opera).
IE9 seems to be sticking to confirmed features for HTML5 and not implementing those that are still experimental or not officially part of the standard, whereas FF4, Chrome and Opera have added many of them.
Also, if you want GPU acceleration for now your only choices are IE9 and FF4.
ie8 and slow xs forum browsing on my win7 ultimate and 9550 with 6gb ram low times.
ff4.0 on my asus eee 701 bios oc option at 900mhz kicks ass my main comp 4 timesfaster then my main that got ie 8!
i havent try ie 9. last iast wery bad for me.
Has anyone ran IE9 on 7/x64? I can't get it to let me run ActiveX on certain sites even though they are in Trusted Zone with full permission :( (no errors popup from IE, I just see the pages don't work). Worked always fine in IE6/7/8.