Life After Stardock?
Are you using it yet?
Published on October 4, 2010 By skyzyk In Personal Computing

I was wondering if anyone is using Internet Explorer 9 Beta and if yes, how does it interact with Impulse and other Stardock programs and apps? I remember reading that there would be updates with respect to IE9 and I imagine that was it, the last update. 

Ans a question please. If I install IE9, x64, can I stil keep IE8 x86? 

Thank you for your time. Gary


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on Oct 05, 2010

Under IE9, you can't see the smiles Icon to click on and mouse hover doesn't help. If you want to write something, you must click on everything until LUCK FINDS YOU to be able to write. In Firefox 4 beta, things are smooth.

 

 

on Oct 05, 2010

Under IE9, you can't see the smiles Icon to click on and mouse hover doesn't help. If you want to write something, you must click on everything until LUCK FINDS YOU to be able to write. In Firefox 4 beta, things are smooth.

Follow yrag's advice

on Oct 06, 2010

Compatibility view enabled me to post in the forums from IE9 normally...

on Oct 06, 2010

IE9 beta sucks

Troll Alert

on Oct 06, 2010

WOW What a colorful thread of opinions. The only thing is I am not convinced about IE9 yet, (Will I ever be?) I am an avid Firefox advocate. It's so much smoother and faster. I had hopes that with all the hype of IE9 from Microsoft to hear more than one person say that they liked it. All that taken I think I'll stick to Firefox for n

Elsius Saint
Under IE9, you can't see the smiles Icon to click on and mouse hover doesn't help. If you want to write something, you must click on everything until LUCK FINDS YOU to be able to write. In Firefox 4 beta, things are smooth.

 

[quote who="Elsius Saint" reply="16" id="2796058"]Under IE9, you can't see the smiles Icon to click on and mouse hover doesn't help. If you want to write something, you must click on everything until LUCK FINDS YOU to be able to write. In Firefox 4 beta, things are smooth.

 

 

How is Firefox 4 beta?

on Oct 07, 2010

The IE9 beta was great when I was using it.  Faster than FF4s beta or Chromes dev channel w/ 3d accel.

Problem is...well, it isn't perfect.  It's great speedwise but some pages would crash and not all flash stuff works properly.  Occasionally it wouldn't load until I switched to the other version of it (32 bit or 64 bit) and back again. 

I got rid of all the betas on my machine, and I'm a happier man for it.  I'll wait for some final versions.

on Oct 08, 2010

Installed the IE9 beta again cause compared to IE8 it's heavenly

on Oct 08, 2010

Installed the IE9 beta again cause compared to IE8 it's heavenly

My that didn't take long. A complete about face. I am not an avid IE user at all, unless I absolutely have to. One issue was the speed but the main issue was FF is more secure. I am curious as to what prompted you to change back?

on Oct 08, 2010

Well, first off is I'm pretty sure the beta I was seeing problems because of was the Microsoft Security Essentials one.  I really should swear off MSE beta builds, had some ugly glitches with those (once a long time ago I couldn't install DirectX, recently Global Agenda wouldn't launch properly...)  (Side note: A new official build just surfaced, which may or may not fix things with the IE9 beta but it seems possible.)

 

Second is IE9 is noticably faster than the alternatives, has feeds integrated (which Chrome doesn't so I had to load up IE8 a bunch anyway,) and Impulse loads up IE.  It's annoying to have to use two browsers and I don't particularly feel like installing a seperate feed reader right now.

 

Chrome would be 100% awesome if it wasn't for the lack of feeds.

on Oct 10, 2010

IE9 makes my eyes bleed.

I can't believe they released this to the public.

on Oct 10, 2010

[pick of a troll]

 

I prefer snotgurgles myself.

on Oct 10, 2010

main issue was FF is more secure.

 

that's absolutely not true...

Total number of vulnerabilities for 2009...

Firefox 169

Safari 94

Internet Explorer 45

Chrome 41.

The average amount of time a vulnerability is left unpatched...

Internet Explorer and Firefox - less than 1 day

Chrome - 2 days

Safari - 13 days

on Oct 10, 2010

Frogboy
IE9 makes my eyes bleed.

I can't believe they released this to the public.

How so?  (Not arguing of course, just curious.)

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