IE 9 Release Candidate is available

AxelR · Feb 10, 2011

First thing first: looking good so far. I'm writing this from IE9RC, meaning that it appears to work fine here on dpreview (unlike the earlier Beta). Galleries displays fine, and so does the Flickr lightbox, which was quite broken in IE9 Beta.

The multilingual download page is here:

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

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chevysales · Feb 10, 2011

i have been running the beta for sometime now.

ed bott has a zdnet article on a few tweaks and ms put up the adlist page to get 3rd party block lists.

i like the changes alot.
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malch · Feb 10, 2011

chevysales said:
ed bott has a zdnet article on a few tweaks and ms put up the adlist page to get 3rd party block lists.

With a decent adblocker and spellchecker, IE could be back in the game.

ColourBlind · Feb 11, 2011

Oh well. Chrome or Firefox it is then.

AxelR · Feb 11, 2011

ColourBlind said:
Oh well. Chrome or Firefox it is then.

Yes, this is true. XP is an entirely different animal (than Vista/7). IE9 takes advantage of new platform features like Direct2D and DirectWrite to hardware-accelerate everything on the page.

Chrome and FF don't and still run fine on older systems.

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Crabby Guy · Feb 11, 2011

I've read Ed Bott and blindly added the Albine list of sites to IE9 RC's Tracking Protection. Honestly, I don't understand which sites should be allowed to do...what??? Does this just keep cookies away I don't want???

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NewsyL · Feb 11, 2011

I've read that it is supposed to be fully color managed.

Does it support ICC v2 and also v4 profiles?

It is configured color managed as installed or do you have to manually enable it?

What do you see on these two sites?

http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter

http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page_profile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html#

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AxelR · Feb 11, 2011

NewsyL said:
I've read that it is supposed to be fully color managed.

Does it support ICC v2 and also v4 profiles?

It is configured color managed as installed or do you have to manually enable it?

What do you see on these two sites?

http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter

http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page_profile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html#

Yes, yes: everything looks fine. Remember that Microsoft invented ICC profiles, as a foung member of the ICC...

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AxelR · Feb 11, 2011

I meant "founding member"

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NewsyL · Feb 11, 2011

AxelR said:
Yes, yes: everything looks fine. Remember that Microsoft invented ICC profiles, as a foung member of the ICC...

Yes, I was aware of their involvement but have always wondered why they felt it was not required to make so much of their image software color managed.

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Simon Garrett · Feb 11, 2011

malch said:
With a decent adblocker and spellchecker, IE could be back in the game.

Especially a Flash-blocker.
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chevysales · Feb 11, 2011

malch said:
chevysales said:

ed bott has a zdnet article on a few tweaks and ms put up the adlist page to get 3rd party block lists.

Click to expand...

With a decent adblocker and spellchecker, IE could be back in the game.

whats with the spell checker? don't see the need am i missing something?

the lists "IF" promoted by 3rd parties will be fine IMO
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chevysales · Feb 11, 2011

Crabby Guy said:
I've read Ed Bott and blindly added the Albine list of sites to IE9 RC's Tracking Protection. Honestly, I don't understand which sites should be allowed to do...what??? Does this just keep cookies away I don't want???

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ok here are the links...
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Browser/TrackingProtectionLists/Default.html

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/ie9-faq-how-to-install-uninstall-and-tweak-the-ie9-rc/2984?pg=2

you load list using manager> tools icon> safety> Tracking protection..... many load list and then deal with pages on an individual basis.

from some forums i read the TRUSTe was one of the better ones.....
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chevysales · Feb 11, 2011

AxelR said:
NewsyL said:

I've read that it is supposed to be fully color managed.

Does it support ICC v2 and also v4 profiles?

It is configured color managed as installed or do you have to manually enable it?

What do you see on these two sites?

http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter

http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page_profile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html#

Click to expand...

Yes, yes: everything looks fine. Remember that Microsoft invented ICC profiles, as a foung member of the ICC...

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Axel
http://www.fastpictureviewer.com

work fine for me too
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chevysales · Feb 11, 2011

Crabby Guy said:
I've read Ed Bott and blindly added the Albine list of sites to IE9 RC's Tracking Protection. Honestly, I don't understand which sites should be allowed to do...what??? Does this just keep cookies away I don't want???

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Adrian

if you in look in the manage add ons it also makes by default a personlized list and collects info it is disable and all you do is enable after some use and you have built and personalized one based on your browsing habits over a day, or more.
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bronxbombers · Feb 11, 2011

It definitely handles image profiles, hopefully it also uses monitor profiles as well though otherwise it's basically just dumb. Otherwise I mean what's the point as the browser couldnt be used on wide gamut monitors in wide gamut mode (or even on standard if you truly want to see everything looking correctly as can be on a given monitor) so....

I will check it later on my wide gamut.

NewsyL said:
I've read that it is supposed to be fully color managed.

Does it support ICC v2 and also v4 profiles?

It is configured color managed as installed or do you have to manually enable it?

What do you see on these two sites?

http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter

http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page_profile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html#

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TBoyd · Feb 11, 2011

...it will not install. I've installed it on my laptop with Win 7 64-bit Home Edition with no problem. My desktop with Win 7 64-bit Pro is another story.

I've tried the RUN option straight from download, as well as saving & running as administrator. The install seems to go OK, but, after restarting, I get "configuring windows updates" which fails & then it reverts changes.

I've tried disabling most of the items in the startup menu, changing user permissions (as I read in another forum). The only anti-virus I'm running is MS Security Essentials.

Any thoughts?

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Przemek Sperling · Feb 12, 2011

There is a free adblocker for IE9 available from http://simple-adblock.com

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Crabby Guy · Feb 12, 2011

Can anyone look at CNN.COM via IE9 RC?
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chevysales · Feb 12, 2011

Crabby Guy said:
Can anyone look at CNN.COM via IE9 RC?
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i just did and cnn.com looks fine... also asks if i want us edition or not?

looks fine to me
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