Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 9

Post by trog @ 12:12pm 15/03/11 | 36 Comments

Microsoft Australia have just sent through a press release proclaiming the release of Internet Explorer 9:

As the only browser with fully hardware-accelerated HTML5 Internet Explorer 9 enables faster, more visually compelling web experiences and applications.

Microsoft said the Beta version of Internet Explorer 9 had been downloaded more than 40 million times, making it the most downloaded beta version of Internet Explorer of all time. Internet Explorer 9 has gained more than 2 per cent usage on Windows 7 PCs worldwide.

You can download it now (if you're running Windows 7, anyway) from beautyoftheweb.com.

If you upgrade, make sure you let us know what you think in the comments. How does it compare to the mainstays that most of us are using now like Firefox and Chrome?

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TiT
Posted 12:16pm 15/3/11

i use IE9 since beta and i like it.. i dont use FF or chrome

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Eorl
Posted 12:30pm 15/3/11

Does it have addons? No? Then no go.

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Hogfather
Posted 12:40pm 15/3/11

It has add-ons, not sure how many have been developed for it though.

Just installed it now (want to check a few sites in it). Initial thoughts:

Like the minimal UI. More of this please, although I think this is as minimal as it gets without them using the title bar which IIRC is against MS development guidelines / rules.

Pinning websites to the task bar is awesome. I have a few regularly-used ones that this will be awesome for.

Seems quick. Chrome-quick? No idea.

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TiT
Posted 12:42pm 15/3/11

yeh i do like the pinned websites to the task bar and also like it how you can move explorer tabs to the windows etc..

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Jayman
Posted 01:02pm 15/3/11

Was just reading review here. Seems to hold up well vs the competition. Looks like the best IE has ever been.

last edited by trog at 13:02:37 15/Mar/11

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Hogfather
Posted 12:49pm 15/3/11

Anyone know how to get IE9 to accept self-signed certs?! The old 'click to continue' is gone!

This could be a problem..

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Jayman
Posted 12:49pm 15/3/11

Wow, wtf happend with that post, I can't even edit.

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Hogfather
Posted 12:54pm 15/3/11

Hmm also F5 doesn't seem to remember your page position ... anyone know if this was an IE feature before or just FF?

Edit: its doing it now, weird.

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TiT
Posted 12:52pm 15/3/11

Anyone know how to get IE9 to accept self-signed certs?! The old 'click to continue' is gone!

This could be a problem..

Yeh i had this problem too but we just paid the $14 and got certificate they are really cheap with godaddy.com

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Hogfather
Posted 12:54pm 15/3/11

Yeh we have plesk set up for clients on a box, some of them use their own domains and ignore the SSL warnings.

Gonna be annoying when they upgrade and they have to buy SSL or use our URL. Also a few sites we do in dev don't always get certificates straight away, self-signed ones have their purposes ffs ><

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taggs
Posted 12:54pm 15/3/11

think you borked the thread, jayman :D

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Hogfather
Posted 12:58pm 15/3/11

TiT: how you getting 15 dorra SSL certs from godaddy? They show as 49 for me.

We get our cheapies from crazydomains for 29 so defnitely looking for 15 if its available :)

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TiT
Posted 01:02pm 15/3/11

do a search for coupons hog it might not be $15 but i am pretty sure didnt pay that much for them... there heaps of coupons out there for go daddy

http://godaddy.promo-code.net/

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Caveboy
Posted 01:04pm 15/3/11

Is the favourite button still on the right side of IE9? I really hated that when i tried the beta.

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Enska
Posted 01:05pm 15/3/11

haha, Jayman blew up the thread.

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Hogfather
Posted 01:06pm 15/3/11

do a search for coupons hog it might not be $15 but i am pretty sure didnt pay that much for them... there heaps of coupons out there for go daddy

hah I am fail at internets, thanks for the tip :)

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TiT
Posted 01:12pm 15/3/11

check my link

http://godaddy.promo-code.net/

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Hogfather
Posted 02:14pm 15/3/11

Lightbox 2 overlays appear to be thoroughly broken in IE9, even on their own website. Apparently its relying on something broken in IE that is now fixed.

F***.

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pimento
Posted 02:33pm 15/3/11

Not accepting 'bad' ssl certs will be a nightmare for network admins and the like, networking kit that use a webui is usually accessed over HTTPS with a self signed cert. There'll have to be an option somewhere to allow it.

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Dazhel
Posted 02:42pm 15/3/11

No XP? Doh! Might have to upgrade the old work PC to Windows 7.

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Hogfather
Posted 02:51pm 15/3/11

Not accepting 'bad' ssl certs will be a nightmare for network admins and the like, networking kit that use a webui is usually accessed over HTTPS with a self signed cert. There'll have to be an option somewhere to allow it.

Yeh its weird, one of our servers had the 'continue anyway' option and one didn't. Fortunately the one that didn't had a cert anyway... no idea.

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tspec
Posted 02:53pm 15/3/11

Anyone know how to get IE9 to accept self-signed certs?! The old 'click to continue' is gone! This could be a problem..

Do you mean this "Click to Continue":

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Hogfather
Posted 03:02pm 15/3/11

Yeh, its disappearing randomy for me in IE9. F***en weird.

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tspec
Posted 03:11pm 15/3/11

Hmm strange, haven't had any issues with it here.

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Nerfington
Posted 03:32pm 15/3/11

Can somebody with both IE9 and Chrome installed check how comparably well this demo works in both?

http://kathack.com/

(click 'Katamari!' up the top, click start, hold right mouse button and move mouse over the page)

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Persay
Posted 03:34pm 15/3/11

sucks

(didn't click)

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m3nt4l
Posted 03:53pm 15/3/11

as smooth as each other (ie x64)

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Nerfington
Posted 04:07pm 15/3/11

Awesome thanks. Some html5 code I wrote about one and a half years ago worked great in FF and Chrome, but horribly in IE9 beta on a friend's comp a few weeks back. Not sure if anything significant has changed since then, or if the beta was up to date.

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Hogfather
Posted 04:08pm 15/3/11

Similar speed but IE9 didn't seem to '3D' the labels on the ball.

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Opec
Posted 04:53pm 15/3/11

Been using it since Beta (currently RC) so I don't expect the full release will be that much different for me.

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Whoop
Posted 06:54pm 15/3/11

Lightbox 2 overlays appear to be thoroughly broken in IE9, even on their own website. Apparently its relying on something broken in IE that is now fixed.

F***.

Good, I f*****g hate those stupid new popup image viewer things the internet seems to have adopted.

edit: I just tried installing a certificate on my IE9, I have that click to continue to website option, then up top where the bar is red you just click on certificate errors & view -> install the certificate.

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Skitza
Posted 07:41pm 15/3/11

Not bad, much quieker than 8.. we'll see how it fares against Chrome who is still the king at the moment

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HyperJ
Posted 09:05pm 15/3/11

FF beta 4 is one of the best releases i've seen of firefox

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eagle13
Posted 12:32am 16/3/11

@HyperJ

+1 to FF RC

Minimalist, stable and fast

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breno
Posted 05:03am 16/3/11

Yeh i'm likin it thus far, more than any other version of IE, except i found the HD video streaming abit choppy, i wonder why that is?

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Caveboy
Posted 11:27am 16/3/11

Why the f*** has microsoft moved the favourite icon to the top right of the screen! As i open tabs you have to move all the way across to the right rather than a very short movement to the left...

I guess its to keep the interface streamlined but why change something that works better.

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