IE 9 public beta

Here is a link to a web cast starting tomorrow at 10:30 PST announcing the IE9 Public Beta. Hopefully there will be live download links too

-http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/internetexplorer/-

 

I liked the preview. Very curious what the beta can do

 

Also am very curious what Microsoft is going to reveal.

 

- http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/download/ie-9/worldwide -


There are seperate 32-bit (around 20MB) and 64-bit (around 36MB) versions for windows 7.

 

I am checking it out, it is in one word awesome.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/help/ie-9/whats-new-in-internet-explorer-9

 

no XP version?

 

No ofcourse not, damn old operating system. Microsoft already announced long ago it won't support XP, just like the new Live products won't. Good job in my opinion.

 

A very good step up imho. Bing search suggestions in the One Bar are awesome; I can just type "[insert city here] weather" to get the current weather and forecast right in the dropdown.

The Firefox 4 betas have nothing on this. Using IE is fun once again!

 

Anybody know how to force IE9 to remember last session after re-open browser?

 

Is it necessary to accept an ATDMT tracking cookie to download this or something? I'm getting Prevx SafeOnline blocking from hosts-file saying "High-risk website is blocked by hosts file" referring to -http://view.atdmt.com/action/.....etc which I gather has an advertising association with Microsoft.
Can anyone clarify this, please?

 

The weather thing already works in the search bar in IE8. Which I prefer, as I don't yet see where I can use any search provider but Bing here.

Overall I am disliking the dumbed down interface and will not be using this on anything but test machines.

 

Most of the UI defaults can be changed. I prefer to see the status bar and the favorites bar. It is fairly configurable. The tear off tabs/aero snap feature is nice. I don't generally open many tabs, but I just opened eight and the titles are still readable. The tab bar doesn't wrap though. For folks that open many more they will probably want to have multiple windows open. Over all it feels a lot faster than IE 8 which I occasionally needed to use. For that reason alone it's a big improvement.

 

actually running very nice here. the ui is def not that bad and as said above its MUCH faster than ie8 was. everything seems to work very well for it being a beta also.

question i have is when they update the beat will we get a update notice or will we have to reinstall on top of this one?? anyone know yet?

 

Installed on Win7 Ultimate, seems really fast here. But where is my personal bar?

Gerard

 

Oh wow it's finally here, installed and working great!! Time to put my UI tweaking fingers to work!

 

Found it!

 

IE9 wont install on Vista, 2 machines 32 and 64 bit. It installed on Windows 7, 2 machines 32 and 64 bit. What gives.

 

You will need Vista SP1 or higher if I recall correctly.

 

thyanks FD, but I can assure you I have the latest updates.

 

seems the 7 group is getting preferred treatment with this release.

 

i'm just starting to use it now...so far, so good....win7 home prem. 64bit

 

are you using windows 7 or vista, thanks

 

Vista after 40 minutes.

 

Guess you didn't have all the updates

Now using ie9x64 with x64 flash thanks to: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=1749750

 

It took quite considerable amount of time at my end. i would say 25 minutes or so, Win 7 x64 ultimate here