Thread: Internet Explorer 9 kicks ass !

**Jason** · 1 Oct 2010 @ 22.15

And you think everyone has the money to upgrade their PC every 3 years?

Originally Posted by ian

I don't really want to go into a big debate about OS on an a thread that is essentially about browsers.

All I have to say is that there are a lot of low cost computer's and laptops which makes entry into general computing relatively low cost. Not all people upgrade, not all people need to upgrade. Most people can afford to upgrade.

Windows XP was released in 2001. 9 years is old... Microsoft have to the pull the plug some time. Its not like XP are short on browser options. IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera etc..

I have stopped using IE9. Its got a little annoying. The 64 bit edition is slow to load when it is first run and I think it still has a number of bugs leading to tabs crashing and pages not loading properly.

**Frinkky** · 25 Oct 2010 @ 04.26

IE9 stops the 'Open File Location' function in explorers contextual menu and chrome. Microsoft's advice? Uninstall IE9 :D

Gotta love that one.

**Frinkky** · 23 Mar 2011 @ 03.56

Thanks to Jason, I've been reminded about this thread

I've been running ie9, ff4 & chrome 10 on my main pc for a couple of weeks now; Chrome 10 fails to render some pages (pure white but full source).

FF4 and IE9 are (so far) my favourites. I used to be a Chrome fan. In fact, I've enjoyed ie9 so much, I look for it in my modernzr conditionals:

HTML Code:

<!--[if gte IE 9|!(IE)]><!--> <html lang="en" class="no-js IEgt8"> <!--<![endif]-->

That slaps IEgt8 on anything over IE8 or not IE (yes, IE9 does pick this up). Could probably work on the class name for semantics, but that's another discussion.

**saltedm8** · 24 Mar 2011 @ 16.55

sorry, but I had to post this as I thought there was an obvious need to show people that at least 'some' sites look ok in IE9 pmsl Websites that look great in IE9