Internet Explorer 9 Beta
Are you using it yet?
Monday, October 4, 2010 by skyzyk | Discussion: Personal Computing
I was wondering if anyone is using Internet Explorer 9 Beta and if yes, how does it interact with Impulse and other Stardock programs and apps? I remember reading that there would be updates with respect to IE9 and I imagine that was it, the last update.
Ans a question please. If I install IE9, x64, can I stil keep IE8 x86?
Thank you for your time. Gary
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Reply #22 Friday, October 8, 2010 12:42 PM
Installed the IE9 beta again cause compared to IE8 it's heavenly 
Reply #23 Friday, October 8, 2010 1:08 PM
My that didn't take long. A complete about face. I am not an avid IE user at all, unless I absolutely have to. One issue was the speed but the main issue was FF is more secure. I am curious as to what prompted you to change back?
Reply #24 Friday, October 8, 2010 5:20 PM
Well, first off is I'm pretty sure the beta I was seeing problems because of was the Microsoft Security Essentials one. I really should swear off MSE beta builds, had some ugly glitches with those (once a long time ago I couldn't install DirectX, recently Global Agenda wouldn't launch properly...) (Side note: A new official build just surfaced, which may or may not fix things with the IE9 beta but it seems possible.)
Second is IE9 is noticably faster than the alternatives, has feeds integrated (which Chrome doesn't so I had to load up IE8 a bunch anyway,) and Impulse loads up IE. It's annoying to have to use two browsers and I don't particularly feel like installing a seperate feed reader right now.
Chrome would be 100% awesome if it wasn't for the lack of feeds.
Reply #25 Sunday, October 10, 2010 9:32 PM
IE9 makes my eyes bleed.
I can't believe they released this to the public. 
Reply #27 Sunday, October 10, 2010 9:50 PM
that's absolutely not true...
Total number of vulnerabilities for 2009...
Firefox 169
Safari 94
Internet Explorer 45
Chrome 41.
The average amount of time a vulnerability is left unpatched...
Internet Explorer and Firefox - less than 1 day
Chrome - 2 days
Safari - 13 days
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Reply #21 Thursday, October 7, 2010 1:08 AM
The IE9 beta was great when I was using it. Faster than FF4s beta or Chromes dev channel w/ 3d accel.
Problem is...well, it isn't perfect. It's great speedwise but some pages would crash and not all flash stuff works properly. Occasionally it wouldn't load until I switched to the other version of it (32 bit or 64 bit) and back again.
I got rid of all the betas on my machine, and I'm a happier man for it. I'll wait for some final versions.