What do you think of Internet Explorer 9?

I loaded it up again today. The final version is a little nicer than the RC.

There is one thing I still do not like, the favorites button is on the wrong side of the browser. I'm so used to it being in the top left that I now click on the add to favorites bar icon by mistake. I added so many sites to the favorites bar by mistake that I just turned it off.

Still says it can't load the page. Sucks.

I hate this crap. The most stupid browser. Ok, the new version 9 looks good and it's faster but it still sucks. There are better browsers out there. I'm using Chrome for years and i love it.

Can't the favourites button be moved back to the left hand side? If it can't, then no point in me installing it, because it would drive me nuts.

I hate it when companies change things with no apparent benefit other than trying to make it look different.

Working fine for me.  Loads pages quicker.  The design is different and will take a little time to get used to.  All in all it does what it is supposed to.

Disappointed.

https://forums.wincustomize.com/406496 

Hey Dr., saw your thread and that's why I replied to this one. 

Personally I am disappointed by the look and usability of the final version, even after adding the Bing bar... and MSN version!

I ran it at home and at work for nearly a full day. HATE THE SHIT OUT OF IT!

It ran slower and on several occasions I was greeted with a No internet connection type of page when trying to go to known working sites.

I'll be stickin with IE8. I'd rather use a rock and stick than rely on memory leaking slow ass FF. Chrome isn't even worth the energy it just took to type the supid name either.

It's making me cry.

Kind of reminds me of the Vista buildup and let down. And now for something completely shitty! Also reminds me why i never used IE in the first place.

It sucks. Plain and simple.

Still using the RC...haven't got the final yet.

Have been using it since it first was available.....apart from it getting upset with Google and these forums/site [solved via compatibility mode] it's fine..... as good as any.... as bad as any.

I dunno what all the prejudice is about.

Could it be better?

Probably.

Could the alternatives?

Probably.

Considering it is free, that you get anything at all means you are getting more than you paid for.

I like it more than any other browser.

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.

Only two issues here:

1) I cannot find how to make the search box appear.

2) The button for a new tab uses the default background color for webpages, which is an issue because I use separate default colors for webpages as way many websites are incompatible with my color sceme (some still are, the default Windows colors still get used for somethings).

Otherwise it is just fine.

The Link 'box' top-left is the search box as well.

Just type into it and it'll load your selected default engine....;)

Needs to be an option to separate it into its own box then.

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.

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.

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! )

...my 2 cents! 

After all these years sticking with IE, version 9 is the one that made me jump the ship to Firefox 4.

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.