Why is it that when I start ie9, all the trees bend in towards my house?
If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0. If it happens again and again? Call it ie9.
ie9 works too. Just not for you. 
If it was that bad I wouldn't use it either. But then it seems to work fine for me. 
Look at the bright side: As more and nore people become aware of 'ugly', (and ff3/Chrome/Opera aren't much better), more eyes will turn to customization.
Isn't that an Oxymoron?
Title: "Why is IE9 so ugly?" I don't know any browsers that you would call good looking.
Seems every couple weeks a thread is coming out that bashes Microsoft IE. Really, doesn't this become old hat so to speak.
We all have a certain browser we like and us so why don't we just use the one we like and forget about the rest.
We all know Draginol so my question is did he post "Why is IE9 so ugly?" because he uses it but doesn't like it at all?
My answer is if you think it's ugly but it works good for you and you use it who cares. If you if you think it's ugly and don't use it who cares.
If it doesn't work for some then just don't use it as there are many choices available. Last, there are many people that have been using FF, Chrome, Opera, and others for years so why even waist the time trying IE when you already know you won't like it.
Because it won't let WB skin it. Duh! 
I'd get those eyes seen about...lol... 
why is IE9 so ugly?.... to give people with nothing better to do, something to bitch and moan about
Maybe you need to use a different theme? For me it looks every much like IE8 (and I am assuming that you are specifying 9 that you did not have a issue with 8).
It'd be nice if it were.....'so Neil can get Windowblinds to skin it 100% perfectly' .....;)
Tis true. As many times as I have tried it it refuses to load any page not just WC. So I'm allowed to bash it. Just like those who don't like FF4 or any other browser is allowed to bash them. Besides its fun, sort of. Release pent up tension, anxiety and all that other good s**t. lol
I've been using IE for years, even though I have both Firefox and Chrome installed here and always up-to-date.
IE 9 *is* ugly. It's also much faster than IE 8, but it's butt ugly.
I think it's the first time in all these years that I am having a hard time adapting to a new IE version, and I am currently forcing myself to stick with it (the just released FF 4.0 looks great by comparison).
First it's those tabs at the top. On a black background, it's hard to read the text in them. Then they share space with the address bar, making everything look and feel cramped. Setting them to show on a separate row creates another problem because it positions them below the address bar but above my Google toolbar. Doesn't make sense, they should move to just above the client area, below all other toolbars.
The rectangular tabs look ugly too - at least the tabs in FF 4 have rounded corners (love the 'real' tabs in Chrome, by the way). When sharing the same row as the address bar, the whole thing looks like someone threw bits and pieces of the UI all over the place.
I keep moving my mouse to the left to get at the Favorites icon, which in IE 9 is now actually at the right - but I suppose this is something I can get used to in time.
The new 'flat' IE icon and back and forward button images are a step backwards, IMO. I read somewhere Google is thinking of doing something similar to the Chrome icon, and I think it's a mistake.
Then we get hardware accelerated rendering, which brings us to DirectWrite, which FF 4 is also using now: text rendering looks weird because anti-aliasing is all off, especially for text that sits on dark backgrounds.
IE 9 memory usage remains the same crap: I like to have some pages always open, refreshing them from time to time, and, apparently because of that, I have IE processes using up to 500 MB of RAM! Since I don't really use FF, no idea how it compares to IE on this respect yet.
Overal, IE9 might actually be the version that makes me switch to Firefox.
Dude!! Good to see you! Where ya been hiding? 
Over on the Impulse side of the company. Been very active there the last 3 years 
Guess I haven't...lol. 
Never really been all that impulsive!
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