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[F_C]

Watch out for what the address bar displays, once you've typed your search term. If you've previously visited a website whose domain name includes your search term, IE 9 will try to auto-complete the web address for you. All you need to do is press 'delete' or 'backspace' once you've entered your search term and it will delete any other text; you can then press 'enter' and you should see search results for your term. It doesn't take up any more time; it took me a split-second to hit 'delete' then 'enter'.

Thank you for replying and the suggestion, however it is (unfortunately) not the case of it auto completing. I just searched for something I have never searched for before - "Dinosaur". Before pressing I even made sure that was the only thing in the address bar. Upon pressing enter it disaplys a google address for a split second then goes to the wikipedia site for Dinosaur. It's almost like when I press enter it's doing the Google "I'm feeling lucky" search and not a normal search.
Any ideas at all?

I appreicate your help. Thank you

[honda]

Thank you for the suggestions but they do not work in my case

I dont copy and paste into the search bar; I type it manually. When I search for something, example "boat", I dont search for the term boat I usually search for "what does boat mean" or a similar sentence so the S.As dont work either.

Thats why I perfer them to be seperate.

[yowanvista]

Spell check
addons like FF or Chrome
Themes
Support for more HTML5 elements( IE9b only scores 96 in html5 test)
Jumplist for x64 IE9b

[TDT]

Thank you for the suggestions but they do not work in my case

I dont copy and paste into the search bar; I type it manually. When I search for something, example "boat", I dont search for the term boat I usually search for "what does boat mean" or a similar sentence so the S.As dont work either.

Thats why I perfer them to be seperate.

You can add Wiki as search provider and you'll get visual suggestions based on what you're typing.

[ZombieFly]

...a different development cycle. Running a 2 yr dev cycle on a browser is insane as corporates cannot afford these massive rollouts of new platforms every 2yrs. Hence most corporates are STILL stuck on IE6 and have put plans in place to upgrade to ie 7 or 8. Any loser can see the problem with this. MS just FAIL with ie constantly. This version has already failed for the above reason already and it's not even released.

it's also missing an "uninstall this useless POS and replace with chrome" button
Also, 9 is an upside down 6.

[iwod]

More HTML 5 element support.
FlashBlock

Apart from that i dont know what is missing. From my prospective, IE were never meant for Heavy Net surfers. ( I hope it is not anyway ), casual Internet users hardly open more then 5 tabs at a time. Even though they do they were properly doing it without knowing it.

And that is why having Tabs on the right doesn't matter. However for me, where i have more then 20+ tabs opened at any time. I dont think IE will turn me away from Opera, Chrome and Firefox.

[Calum]

[...] From my prospective, IE were never meant for Heavy Net surfers. ( I hope it is not anyway ) [...]

That's funny because I'm a heavy Internet user and I love Internet Explorer 9 - it fits my wants brilliantly.

[stevember]

I'd like to be able to group pinned sites on the task bar together in some way. I love the idea, but wow I don't like how much space a few sites take up on the taskbar.

Me too.

[GP007]

...a different development cycle. Running a 2 yr dev cycle on a browser is insane as corporates cannot afford these massive rollouts of new platforms every 2yrs. Hence most corporates are STILL stuck on IE6 and have put plans in place to upgrade to ie 7 or 8. Any loser can see the problem with this. MS just FAIL with ie constantly. This version has already failed for the above reason already and it's not even released.

it's also missing an "uninstall this useless POS and replace with chrome" button
Also, 9 is an upside down 6.

Why do I see people keep bringing up IE's release cycle? IE9 from the start has been on a 8 week dev process, look at the release dates for the PPs, (beta = PP5 which you could get right now as well if you just want to see the rendering engine and not the whole browser). It's logical then to expect beta 2 in another 8 weeks, so Nov. Then we'll take it from there, dunno if they'll do a beta 3 or go to RC1 like with IE8 so only time will tell.

[GreyWolf]

Hi,

I asked this question in one other of the numerous IE9 threads but that seemed to be the thread for when it was released so I didn't get a reply. Hopefully someone here can answer this question as I'm stuck!

Is anyone else having problems with the new search/address bar combined into one? I'm missing something very obvious I feel as I just can't work it out.

How do I search? I just want a google search for "prefered" so I type that in and press enter. It takes me to a webpage telling me the definition of prefered. I want a google search for Neowin so I type that in and it takes me here.
Is the only way to actually type in www.google.com and then type in preferred into google? It doesn't seem like a search box if I have to do that. The few times I manage to actually get it to search it displays the results page for only a brief time then goes back to the main google.com.

I'm obviously doing something wrong so please educate me!

Thank you.

There are two easy ways to do this: 1) Hit Ctrl-E for search and type it in, or 2) Type "?" before your search query. for example "? blueberries" will search for blueberries using your default provider instead of showing your history.



Also, why does everyone keep saying they wish for addon/extensions? IE has had them for years.

[ZombieFly]

Why do I see people keep bringing up IE's release cycle? IE9 from the start has been on a 8 week dev process, look at the release dates for the PPs, (beta = PP5 which you could get right now as well if you just want to see the rendering engine and not the whole browser). It's logical then to expect beta 2 in another 8 weeks, so Nov. Then we'll take it from there, dunno if they'll do a beta 3 or go to RC1 like with IE8 so only time will tell.

you don't, you see people mentioning the development cycle, which isn't the same thing.

e.g. IE9 will go final, the dev team will then move onto IE10. we will see nothing for 2 yrs. only patches to IE9.
If you are a company with 1000+ employees, rolling out a major upgrade to a browser is a big task (especially with IE as each version mangles things other browsers can render perfectly), so you have to keep planning these rollouts, then executing them. This means many workplaces are stuck on IE6 at the moment as IE6 was such a disaster that moving away from it requires a LOT of testing/rework.

If you are a developer, IE is evil. If you are a developer and don't agree with this, you should maybe look for alternative employment

[tablet_user]

Only complaint i have is in IE8 when i hit the drop arrow for the address bar it would show 10 last typed but ie9 is only showing me 4

[GP007]

you don't, you see people mentioning the development cycle, which isn't the same thing.

e.g. IE9 will go final, the dev team will then move onto IE10. we will see nothing for 2 yrs. only patches to IE9.
If you are a company with 1000+ employees, rolling out a major upgrade to a browser is a big task (especially with IE as each version mangles things other browsers can render perfectly), so you have to keep planning these rollouts, then executing them. This means many workplaces are stuck on IE6 at the moment as IE6 was such a disaster that moving away from it requires a LOT of testing/rework.

If you are a developer, IE is evil. If you are a developer and don't agree with this, you should maybe look for alternative employment

It is the same thing, I don't get why you think it's different. IE is on a 1 year release cycle, rtm, it's also not tied into the system as much as IE6 is. The longer cycle you talk about for business is actually something they like, they like schedules that don't force them to rush things, 2 years is their sweet spot, it's also more or less always been Windows release cycle (and IE was tied to windows till IE8). Workplaces are stuck with IE6 because they have inhouse apps built for that that they don't want to change, that's they're own problem and MS has XP Mode that lets you run IE6 in a VM just for those apps which lets you upgrade the host browser whenever you want, no problems at all.

As for the web dev, if you know what you seem to try to indicate you know, then every browser renders some newer things a bit different, Chrome/FF/Opera, they never always match 100%. That aside, with IE9 that's not going to be an issue since MS is pushing ahead with standards.

In the end IE9's 8 week schedule is fast, Chrome was slower till Google decided to play the one up game and move to a 6 week schedule. Really the end user isn't always updating to the newest nightly build of browser X either, that's more for devs to see what changes in the engine have been made. To that extent the IE9 PPs are for devs and thus don't come with any UI to them.

Getting a new beta or RC for IE9 basically every 2 months till RTM sounds good to me.

[ZombieFly]

It is the same thing, I don't get why you think it's different. IE is on a 1 year release cycle, rtm, it's also not tied into the system as much as IE6 is. The longer cycle you talk about for business is actually something they like, they like schedules that don't force them to rush things, 2 years is their sweet spot, it's also more or less always been Windows release cycle (and IE was tied to windows till IE8). Workplaces are stuck with IE6 because they have inhouse apps built for that that they don't want to change, that's they're own problem and MS has XP Mode that lets you run IE6 in a VM just for those apps which lets you upgrade the host browser whenever you want, no problems at all.

As for the web dev, if you know what you seem to try to indicate you know, then every browser renders some newer things a bit different, Chrome/FF/Opera, they never always match 100%. That aside, with IE9 that's not going to be an issue since MS is pushing ahead with standards.

In the end IE9's 8 week schedule is fast, Chrome was slower till Google decided to play the one up game and move to a 6 week schedule. Really the end user isn't always updating to the newest nightly build of browser X either, that's more for devs to see what changes in the engine have been made. To that extent the IE9 PPs are for devs and thus don't come with any UI to them.

Getting a new beta or RC for IE9 basically every 2 months till RTM sounds good to me.

I still don't understand how you don't see the issue.

We are also running chrome/firefox in the same corporate environment. Both of these update themselves and are always up to date. There is no need to plan anything. IE doesn't do this and always involves a lengthy problematic removal/installation as it spreads it's tentacles all over the OS.

[GP007]

I still don't understand how you don't see the issue.

We are also running chrome/firefox in the same corporate environment. Both of these update themselves and are always up to date. There is no need to plan anything. IE doesn't do this and always involves a lengthy problematic removal/installation as it spreads it's tentacles all over the OS.

Maybe because your issue isn't a issue? We're not talking IE6 here. What long tentacles is it spreading exactly? And IE updates through WU along with the OS, so it is also "up to date" if you install the updates that is. Aside from needing a restart there is no "issue".