What do you think of Internet Explorer 9?
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 by Leo the Lion | Discussion: Personal Computing
The final version of IE9 was released by Microsoft last night and I installed it on my Windows 7 machine. Only played with it for about 30 minutes so did not have time to explore some of the new stuff but one thing that really impressed me was the speed of the page loading. Wow! Fast or what.........Never been a fan of FF but Chrome has potential.........but now IE9 really sets the pace, speedwise.
Anybody else tried it yet?
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Reply #22 Thursday, March 17, 2011 2:44 PM
Wish I could say, I was downloading it thru IE8 and got stuck at 20%, after about 15 minutes I canceled the download. 5 minutes later it gave me the msg IE9 failed to download. If it took this long just to tell me it failed to download I don't want to imagine how slow it might really be or how terrible it is at noticing problems. No thanks. I'll stick to Firefox for now while keeping an eye on Chrome, just in case.
Reply #23 Wednesday, April 6, 2011 4:08 AM
I like it.
I find it much snappier than IE 8 (especially on this 2005 notebook I'm typing this from)
Haven't had one single issue with it since getting it through windows update (of course my systems are never modified in any way, run every single MS update always, and in general always work! 
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...my 2 cents!
Reply #24 Wednesday, April 6, 2011 4:12 AM
After all these years sticking with IE, version 9 is the one that made me jump the ship to Firefox 4.
Reply #25 Wednesday, April 6, 2011 4:30 AM
IE 9 won overall at Tom's Hardware. Page speed is way ahead.
For me, Firefox. Or Chrome. Do not like UI on IE 9.
Reply #26 Wednesday, April 6, 2011 7:31 AM
What do you think of Internet Explorer 9?
I try not to.
Reply #28 Wednesday, April 6, 2011 11:58 AM
I'm thinking of marrying it and having children. 
Reply #30 Wednesday, April 6, 2011 2:09 PM
Stop the planet! I want to get off!
I thought you were off the planet all ready or is it your computer.
Reply #31 Wednesday, April 6, 2011 2:50 PM
I like IE9. But I also like Pale Moon and Chrome too. I probably use Pale Moon most.
What do people use on their smart phones? I just got an Android and am trying to figure out which one to install.
Reply #33 Wednesday, April 6, 2011 3:29 PM
just got an "important" update notification for IE9, guess they figure it is ready for prime time.
I'm happy with IE8 and don't really see a reason to want to update. my homepage page loads in less than a second (blank) and my download speed is something like 1meg/sec. what's not to like.
Reply #34 Wednesday, April 6, 2011 3:50 PM
I'm happy with IE8 and don't really see a reason to want to update. my homepage page loads in less than a second (blank) and my download speed is something like 1meg/sec. what's not to like.
the same thing there was not to like before. It's the slowest browser in the known universe (not counting older versions of any current browsers)
Reply #35 Wednesday, April 6, 2011 4:04 PM
I just uninstalled FF 3.6.16 with Revo and did a clean install of FF4. Then I added the status bar. So far so good. Lauch speed is back up there. Timed it actually. 1.5 sec.
Reply #36 Wednesday, April 6, 2011 4:42 PM
The fact that IE is a malware and virus magnet?
Reply #37 Wednesday, April 6, 2011 4:43 PM
okay, I'm stupid, but, so what, even being the slowest is pretty damn fast, yes.
from my experience; I have better control of my browsing experience in regards to security settings, cookie control and managing add-ons than with any other stand alone browser. and it's pretty damn fast.
Reply #39 Wednesday, April 6, 2011 5:02 PM
Yeah it's a known fact that IE has always been less secure than Firefox. Slower as well. However IE9 may or may not change that.
Reply #40 Thursday, April 7, 2011 6:35 AM
It's a known fact backed up by damn little evidence.
It's a known fact that 99% of the time, compromises are caused by stupid users.
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Reply #21 Thursday, March 17, 2011 2:33 PM
I used to use Chrome and I have little preference between the two, but Chrome 10 seems slower than Chrome 9 on my box. Needless to say, they both seem slower than IE9.
I am glad I am not the only one that has noticed that. Chrome is ok, but no speed demon.
Oh I disagree in general. I think they enabled some security features and 'app' stuff that slowed it down a bit. Anyway back on IE9 I noticed some glitching with Trusted Sites...I had to remove a site from that to make things work again. I doubt all of you are running into issues with that, but some might be.