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[gahbmwM5]

Jan, on 15 September 2010 - 19:37, said:

The Back/Forward Buttons have a drop down history. Just click on it (Don't let go)

Good observation here...as I was looking every where...thanks

[RoomKid]

Doesn't have support for geolocation or HTML5 input types too.

[Sanjay]

GP007, on 15 September 2010 - 19:34, said:

There are a few things that are missing that even IE8 has, like where's the option to save my tabs?

All closed tabs are automatically saved. If you are referring to adding tabs to 'Favorites', click on the Favorites button (star) and the options are available in the drop down list 'Add to favorites ...'.

GP007, on 15 September 2010 - 19:34, said:

Or to restart my last tab session?

Open a 'new tab' and the option to "Reopen last session" is very much there along with an option for a drop down list of "Reopen closed tabs".

GP007, on 15 September 2010 - 19:34, said:

Also the back/forward buttons are missing their dropdown history list as well.

Right click on the back/forward buttons for the dropdown history list.

GP007, on 15 September 2010 - 19:34, said:

The option to move tabs below or above the address bar as well would be good.

+ 1
This is something I also wish for. By moving the 'tabs' up higher, it means moving the mouse a greater distance to switch between tabs. I prefer that the 'tabs' bar be the last bar before the actual page.

Also, I hate that they have combined the 'search bar' with the 'address bar'. I used to like being able to type something in the 'search bar' and then search using different search providers, without having to retype anything. Now one has to retype to do the same search with a ifferent search provider.

[Tech Star]

I just want a save session when you close the browser (like in FireFox) NOT restore, spell check, tabs on the bottom, and an extension like "unPlug" where I can download flv files from youtube.

Other than that I love the new IE.

[soldier1st]

stevember, on 15 September 2010 - 19:39, said:

Yep, I need it. lol
I'm paralysed and type side hand so mistype a lot.

if you need spellcheck then run a non ie based browser and they got it, ms will never implement a spell check as they are too lazy to add one.

[Sanjay]

Slugsie, on 15 September 2010 - 22:35, said:

I want to be able to put the tabs on a separate line to the address bar. It's just too crowded as it is, I either end up with a tiny address bar, or tiny tabs. Looks cramped and not nice to work with.

+1
1. There is too little space for opening lot's of tabs as I do.
2. The mouse has to be moved thatr much farther up, to switch between tabs.
3. Aesthetically also the tabs next to the address bar just don't look right.
Why can't they simply allow the user to select where the user would like to have the tabs.

Slugsie, on 15 September 2010 - 22:35, said:

I want the separate search box back. Maybe it's just me, and I'm missing something obvious, but I just can't perform a search properly from the address bar. Here are two examples.
1) I want to do a google search for Neowin. I go to the address bar and type Neowin. The address bar unhelpfully fills in neowin.net because it's on both my history and bookmarks. So instead of just hitting enter as I used to do I now have to delete the extra first. Similarly if I search for Face, it unhelpfully auto completes that to Facebook.com.
2) I want to see what's happening with HP (who I work for), so I type HP in. After deleting the supurflous stuff again I hit enter, and I'm at HPs home page - great, except that I wanted to be at the first page of results of searching Google for HP.

+1
This is the one thing, if they don't bring back, that will make me stop using IE. It is absolutely senseless to have combined the search bar with the address bar. Amongst several problems I have doing searches without a dedicated search bar, the most important for me is that I type something in the search bar, and then simply select the search provider from the drop down list. At times then I wish to search the same using a different search provider, something I can do anymore without having to type the search words again.

[Calum]

soldier1st, on 17 September 2010 - 06:57, said:

if you need spellcheck then run a non ie based browser and they got it, ms will never implement a spell check as they are too lazy to add one.

I'm sure you're the sort of person who would have said the same thing about them implementing a download manager

It's very possible they will add a spell-checker; perhaps not ready for the final version of IE 9, but sometime in the future.

[Luke777]

sanke1, on 16 September 2010 - 20:43, said:

Ugly UI is ugly.

Doesn't fit with any UI of Windows 7, Metro or Ribbon for that matter. Its a beta, but recently, Microsoft betas sport almost near final UI.

Hi
you can take a look at
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[Grayski]

GP007, on 15 September 2010 - 19:34, said:

Also the back/forward buttons are missing their dropdown history list as well.

Right Click on them

[migo]

Turns out after some more use it isn't really missing anything. IE9 by default has malicious script blocking, and it has malicious site warnings, so that covers my two primary add ons in Firefox. I've also given accelerators a chance and they're pretty nifty now that they're paired with an interface that actually isn't ugly.

IE9 has a very high chance of becoming my primary browser after it leaves beta. Not sure what my secondary one will be, as before IE8 was my backup browser as it handled a few things FF couldn't.

[GP007]

Grayski, on 17 September 2010 - 09:28, said:

Right Click on them

It's kinda hard to guess to right click a button which by design don't have any right click options to them like a file does or so on. The thought just never comes accross to most people, like me, and i'm pretty tech savy and all. I think it's still a good idea to have a small down arrow next to them like IE8 does.

As for a spell checker, people keep sending feedback and asking for it, since chrome and so on have it and they're now more serious about competition they should get around to adding it in IE9. Beta 1 is pretty limited in a way that, imo, makes it so you can try the new features instead of just using it how you use other browsers. They'd much rather you test the pinning of tabs to the taskbar and so on so they can get feedback on that first. A spellchecker doesn't need much testing I'd say.

[F_C]

When I try and sendfeedback it says I don't have Windows Live Sign-In, so directs me to a page to download it. When I download it on that page though it tells me I already have it.
Any ideas? Thanks again.

[gate1975mlm]

A few things missing from IE8 are the following!

1. "Download manager" does not show the speed of your downloads any more

2. "Little arrow" next to your links in farorites list that allows you to open links in a new tab is missing

3. "Reopen Last Session" is missing from the toolbar Its now only in new tab window.

4. "QuickTabs" button is missing form toolbar However why is there still an option for it under Internet Options?


Why in the world did Microsoft take these handy features away in IE 9 Beta?

I hope they will return when IE9 goes final!


Also just an idea.

Instead of having all that wasted space at the top of the address bar Microsoft should move the "Tab bar" there!

And then we can have all other things like Mail,RSS and print buttons next to the address bar.

And another thing why do we still not have Thumbnails when moving our cursor over a tab?

And why no "Paste and Go" for the address bar?

As of now I am sticking with Chrome!

[migo]

I like what they've done with IE9. In general I strip almost all features out of the browser so I only have tabs, address bar, back/forward and stop/refresh. I imagine they've done some studies and discovered that those features get used the vast majority of the time to the exclusion of all else and they decided to strip everything else out. IE is intended to be the everyman's browser, not the power user's one, and Chrome certainly showed how much people like minimalist interfaces. I still like the Chrome layout the best, but I can't stand that Webkit crashes so bad, and actually IE9 has the best crash recovery of any browser I've seen.

GP007, on 17 September 2010 - 10:06, said:

It's kinda hard to guess to right click a button which by design don't have any right click options to them like a file does or so on. The thought just never comes accross to most people, like me, and i'm pretty tech savy and all. I think it's still a good idea to have a small down arrow next to them like IE8 does.

Right click is the first thing you should try in anything. Right click is the contextual menu button, and in the context of the back button you get a history menu. It's quite reasonable to expect people to do it.

[3dfxman]

Phenom II, on 15 September 2010 - 19:43, said:

ADBLOCK !

This has been the main reason why i refuse to use IE and always use Firefox