Internet Explorer 9 Released

If I am not mistaken, Tracking Protection is a full blown ad blocker although MS might not want to call it such so as to not anger advertisers. It even contains a link to an adblocker plus black list.

http://www.liveside.net/2010/12/07/ie9-tracking-protection-a-built-in-ie9-ad-blocker/

Acadia

 

Thank's I may look into that.

 

OK, thanks for the information, I'll have a look at that.

 

Its looks bleh Very bland IMHO.

 

The 'Tracking Protection'? I was kind of hoping it might work ... when I download IE 9 that is.

 

IE9's Tracking Protection (and IE8's InPrivate Filtering) do not filter out elements from first-party domains, i.e. if you're viewing www.website.com and the ads are hosted on www.website.com/ads/, they won't be blocked. This is not a bug, and is by design.

It works fine most of the time because the vast majority of ads come from third-party domains anyway, but personally I wouldn't call it a "full blown" ad blocker.

 

I stand corrected.

Acadia

 

You don't say. Just like how Konqueror and Epiphany promote the obvious implications that KDE/GNOME are the ways to access the web?

 

Internet Explorer 9 will be distributed over Windows Update at the end of June, to give administrators time to prepare: http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/...l-approach-to-measuring-browser-adoption.aspx

 

And again, I gotta ask, how many business users? I thought these "hundreds of millions of business customers that rely on Internet Explorer" were the ones forcing MS to support Grandpa XP?

 

Internet Explorer 9

-Classic Shell now makes Internet Explorer 9 look like IE8: HERE and HERE


-IE9 Tips: HERE and HERE

 

Just for general info to anyone interested, I did a reformat of Win 7 x64 today, and IE9 showed up in the Windows Updates. I don't know if it will show up on already existing installations or not, but it did show up here today on a new install.

 

Hi Kerodo

Yep!
Just checked for updates like I always do on a Tuesday night... IE9 - Via... Windows Update

Zeena

 

It showed up under optional updates for me today.

 

Yes it's vey responsive.

 

If you keep it out of Sandboxie it is. Inside of it, things go downhill.

 

Yes, I got IE9 through Windows Update, too. Still a RTM version though...

 

That is the very latest version.

 

I know, but Release to Manufacturing (RTM):
"RTM versions are typically released to manufacturers before they are released to the general public so that
the manufacturers can conduct integration and work out any bugs the software may encounter with hardware devices.
The release of an RTM version does not necessarily mean that the creators have worked out all the problems with the software;
there still may be more versions of the product before it is released to the general public. "

 

Yes, it appeared as an important update on my computer. It is as fast as Chrome, no difference whether sandboxed or not, but I can't see yet a single reason for me to switch. Being an RTM version it kind of shows the urgency from MS to launch it asap given the tough competition from other browsers.

 

Really? The past few pages of this thread disagree with you.

 

"The term "release to manufacturing" or "release to marketing" (both abbreviated RTM, initials also commonly used for the quite different "return to manufacturer" of faulty goods)—also known as "going gold"—is a term used when software is ready for or has been delivered or provided to the customer. It is typically used in certain retail mass-production software contexts—as opposed to a specialized software production or project in a commercial or government production and distribution—where the software is sold as part of a bundle in a related computer hardware sale and typically where the software and related hardware is ultimately to be available and sold on mass/public basis at retail stores to indicate that the software has met a defined quality level and is ready for mass retail distribution. RTM could also mean in other contexts that the software has been delivered or released to a client or customer for installation or distribution to the related hardware end user computers or machines. The term does not define the delivery mechanism or volume; it only states that the quality is sufficient for mass distribution. The deliverable from the engineering organization is frequently in the form of a gold master CD used for duplication or to produce the image for the web."

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#RTM

 

Finally I get the IE 9 update. Yes, it's still pants & shags with my sidebar & desktop icons on my laptop.

C'mon Mickeysoft get it right for a change. I have uninstalled IE 9, & at least on the laptop, I will stick with Idiot Exploiter 8. At least it worked. I never use it anyway.

I will check my desktop later ...

 

I think Osaban has a point here. I get the feeling MS were racing Mozilla to beat them releasing Fx 4.

 

I find this humorous because the IE release date was set about a month before it was released, and everyone was complaining that Fx4 was being rushed to beat it.

Apparently people can whine for weeks about IE not being on Windows Update when it was released, then when it's finally out on Windows Update, they can whine that it was "rushed out" lol..? Contradictory much? I guess Microsoft simply can't win.

I added some gadgets to my desktop, they work fine with IE9.