Internet Explorer 9 RC?

[Ian]

Are there many people using the IE9 RC? I installed it a week or so ago to see if PCR worked ok (thankfully it does), but I've kept it installed.

I tried the beta a few months ago and wasn't too impressed with the stability, so I rolled back to IE8. Things seem to have changed a decent amount and it's now just as stable as IE8 for me and runs well

What do other IE9 users think? Are you going to stick with it, or move on to FF/Chrome/other?

 

[V_R]

Been tempted, but i'm a FF fan. Its it any good? Better?

 

[muckshifter]

no speelcheckter ... pass


will stick with Chrome

 

[Ian]

Been tempted, but i'm a FF fan. Its it any good? Better?

It's an improvement on IE8 IMO, but it's not got the array of plugins that FF does - so if you've got a tweaked version it may not be what you are after. Like Mucks says, the lack of spell-checker is a disappointment (although IESpell works, it's not as good as the inline ones available for other browsers).


From what I can see, the main improvements for most users are:

• Large page area (smaller menu/nav bars by default).
• Faster rendering
• HTML5 support
• Basic download manager
• Extra filtering options for ActiveX

 

[brucewl]

IE9 is much better than IE8, I think IE9 is till a good job from MS

 

[EvanDavis]

I installed IE9 RC, but seems to crash on me. I use Firefox 4 beta with a few about;config changes annd it flies for me.

 

[Reefsmoka]

Crome all the way, why chose second best

 

[Abarbarian]

Blimey are MS still doing a browser

 

[floppybootstomp]

Chrome are crap

Firefox is Crap

There, that should get up people's noses as others are being quite obnoxious here then so will I

For the past three or four days every time I boot Win 7 I'm getting this pop up telling me I have an urgent update. Turns out the urgent update is IE9

And I can't seem to disable the option within my updates.

Sometimes I'd like to give MS a big kick. But I can't so I just close the popup.

I remember I didn't care for IE8 at first but I got used to it so my question is - is IE9 any good? Stable yet? Any probs? Depending on answers received (apart from smartarse replies like 'IE is rubbish!' )I will or not install it.

And is it possible to roll back to IE8 should I like like Mr Ballmer's latest offering?

Talking of MS's CO, here's some video footage of this completely sane person:

 

[nivrip]

And is it possible to roll back to IE8

Yes it is. I did just that after trying IE9 and finding it slowed everything down. That was a couple of months ago. Maybe it's better now, might try again.

I like Chrome but it doesn't seem compatible with PCR . So now on IE8 and happy.

 

[Taffycat]

I'm getting this pop up telling me I have an urgent update. Turns out the urgent update is IE9

That eventually "got" to me too. It was annoying, so I gave-in. To be fair, I am quite pleasantly surprised by IE9, and I genuinely find myself liking it more now... plus it seems to be a lot speedier than former incarnations.

My default browser is still FF - but I would have to go along with Sir Flopps in disliking Chrome. Just cannot seem to get on with it at all.