IE 9 Beta is Live!

[Animalor]

Go go and download. I believe it's Windows 7 only though. No XP for sure but I dunno about Vista.

http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/

I have it installed at work and it's glorious and damned fast.

[Fairweather Pure]

I downloaded it, fired it up, and it didn't work. Back to Chrome I go!

[Animalor]

You fired up the install, rebooted the machine and then it didn't work? Odd. I didn't have a problem at all with it.

[Fairweather Pure]

Maybe it's an Eyefinity thing. No idea. I said it was diagnosing the problem and would let me know when MS had a fix. It didn't give me any other error than it could not start up IE.

[Soreali]

Is it better than Chrome? It'd be very hard to believe.

[Animalor]

If you have a ton of extensions probably not. From a lot of the impressions and reviews I've read online, Microsoft is seriously competing with them again though.

[miir]

Will take a little bit to 're-learn' the layout but it's really speedy.
Haven't come across any pages that are fucked up in IE9... which was my biggest issue with Chrome.

[Animalor]

I'm loving the ability to pin websites to the taskbar at work.

I had a few web-based management utilities that I use on a daily basis at work. Pinned them to the taskbar. They have beautiful icons already programmed into the app and they now feel completely integrated into Windows.

Oh.. And they all work too.

I highly approve.

[Aabidano]

No option to show the menu bar anymore?

[Winnow]

As I'm building my new website, it's interesting that Firefox is the browser that has issues with the CSS formatting.

The problem with IE is that online with Firefox where the upgrade process is pretty seamless and most people do it, or it's automated, with IE, most are still using IE 6.0 which sucks for web developers.

Hoping IE 9 is better which I'm sure it is but it only matters if Microsoft finds a way to get older version users of IE to update their browsers which they haven't done a good job of in the past.

[Sylvus]

As I'm building my new website, it's interesting that Firefox is the browser that has issues with the CSS formatting.

You're doing something wrong.

[Winnow]

As I'm building my new website, it's interesting that Firefox is the browser that has issues with the CSS formatting.

You're doing something wrong.

Firefox isn't what it used to be. I'll track down the latest charts later.

[Animalor]

No option to show the menu bar anymore?

This seems to be a UI bug. The menu bar is checked off but doesn't stay displayed.

Hitting Alt while IE is the active Window wil bring up the menu.

[Aabidano]

Review after 10 minutes use: Faster than IE8, on par with Mozilla. Whether I'd actually use it from day to day? Possibly when it's ready for prime time.

No comparison to Chrome as I never saw a need to go there.

Fails to import my bookmarks from Mozilla.

[Siji]

Fails to import my bookmarks from Mozilla.

X-Marks or at the very least, "Plain Old Favorites" plugin for Firefox. Fuck firefox's bookmark system.

[Dregor Thule]

It would take an act of a god I don't believe in for me to switch back to IE on my personal computer.