Internet Explorer 9

Internet Explorer 9 is the latest release from Microsoft for browsing the web. Currently, the Release Candidate is available for download. Microsoft is going to launch the RTM version of IE9 on Monday, 14th March 2011. It supports Windows 7, Vista, Windows Server 2008 and uses the Trident 5.0 engine.

Internet Explorer 9 has a new GUI with better tabbed browsing support and better security to the web. It features pinning sites to Windows 7 taskbar, new secured download manager, add-on performance advisor, enhanced tabs and powerful address bar. It also features a powerful JScript engine, CSS3 and HTML5 support.

If you want to download and install the RC version now, can get it from here:

I am FF user and I use IE rarely. After reading the features this new release brings, I decided to give it a try.

So went ahead and downloaded it. launced the exe and it said it requires Vista SP2 (I have a vista laptop). Man, I have checked my winver and found out that it´s not even at SP1 level yet.

So I spend some time (more than one hour) to bring it to the SP1 level but I will try upgrading to SP2 level sometime later. Looks like it´s gonna take some time.

I´ve pretty much stuck to FF as well. I have Chrome and Opera, but FF is great.

I have been trying IE9 64 bit for two days, it is quite fine but still I prefer chrome...

Why do you prefer Chrome?

You sent it with IE9 first and had a problem. That´s probably because this site does not support some new feature of it.

I prefer FF because of its plug-ins. FF has rich set of plug-ins for anything you may ask for.

But sometimes I need IE as well because I have an application based on the web browser control IE is based on.

I got used to it, it is easy to use and also fast...

I never install new IEs untill they´re a bit older. For some reason anything they release sucks at first, with lots of bugs and such.

That´s Microsoft, it´s all the same story with all of their products. Otherwise they wouldn´t be able to release anything.