IE9 download available!

[Denis W. Veteran]

Press Alt :p

I swear I didn't see the menu bar when I pressed ALT earlier, but now I see it... just takes a little while to come up :s

Also, a temporary fix to IE9 locking up Neowin is forcing software rendering in options.

[ViperAFK]

WTF! No xp version? :no:

Its been known for a very long time that there was not going to be an ie9 for XP.

[Ayepecks]

My installation gets stuck on "Downloading Internet Explorer 9...". Is there an offline installer?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2409098

There's supposed to be, but the offline installer is the exact same as the online installer.

[Del-Funky Smelly Be.]

FireFox will be still my main browser. Secondary choice go to Chrome and next to IE9. :rofl:

[Timan Veteran]

Neowin looking good as always :p

[mail]

Fonts are terrible :/

[Ambroos]

On a pretty narrow screen (1280x1024) I gotta say I really, really detest the tab placement. It feels contra-intuitive and if you constantly have a lot of tabs (4+) open like me it's just a nuisance.

[George P Global Moderator]

It installed fine and neowin is working fine as well, I dunno where people say they have problems with this site. One thing I've noticed is the lack of options but I'm guessing they'll add more back. I had a good number of tabs open when I closed IE8 and now those are gone, but I can remember them/get them back from my history. So far I like it really.

[Evolution]

Has anyone noticed that IE 9 comments isn't exactly compatible with Neowin e.g. search doesn't work and comments can't be posted?

[ViperAFK]

Neowin looking good as always :p

Howd you get the nice looking neowin icon? No offense but it looks mighty ugly for me:

[Buendia]

My installation gets stuck on "Downloading Internet Explorer 9...". Is there an offline installer?

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

[Ayepecks]

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

That's not an offline installer. See my previous post.

I give up. I've been trying to install it for about an hour.

[Phenom II]

Howd you get the nice looking neowin icon? No offense but it looks mighty ugly for me:

Mine is better :p

[George P Global Moderator]

So far I've noticed the speed boost coming off of IE8 for sure, and I have Opera 10.60 installed as well, I'd say it's very close to that for me. I also like how, on the IE9 site when you go to install it, it says that future updates to IE9 will come via Windows Update! Unlike the IE8 betas where you had to totally uninstall those and then reinstall the new version, man that was a pain.

[liju]

How to do I change the size of the address bar or at least allow it to make use of blank space?

Move your mouse pointer to the space between address bar and first tab and drag it all the way you want.

I kinda like the 'colour conscious' back and forward buttons, it changes colour based on the primary colour in the pinned favicon.

One thing I would like to see is the address bar and tabs on the same level, the way it is now doesn't feel right.

[Phenom II]

Move your mouse pointer to the space between address bar and first tab and drag it all the way you want.

I kinda like the 'colour conscious' back and forward buttons, it changes colour based on the primary colour in the pinned favicon.

One thing I would like to see is the address bar and tabs on the same level, the way it is now doesn't feel right.

Mine is level

[Buendia]

Online installer from http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/ is 2.4MB large and when launched downloads necessary components.

I'm downloading now from

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

It has 36MB. How can it not be offline installer?

[pezzonovante]

That's not an offline installer. See my previous post.

I give up. I've been trying to install it for about an hour.

But I have finally managed to install it. Reboot your computer and then try to install again. It worked for me.

[Erland]

I'm quite surprised at how fast page loading is on this, it's equal in perception to other browsers which is really positive.

[derkim]

That's not an offline installer. See my previous post.

I give up. I've been trying to install it for about an hour.

http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/internet-explorer/download/ie-9/worldwide

There you will find offline installer.

[Penryn]

It won't install on my system and I meet all the requirements and have all the prerequisites (and picked the correct version). Nice.

Disable any anti-virus or security suites if you have them.

Close any running IE(8) windows piror to installation. Now it should works.

[George P Global Moderator]

It's a shame there is no option to move tabs under the address bar if you like to have many open, but I think they might have left this type of option out of beta 1 so they could get you to try pinning pages to the taskbar.

[andrew_f]

Move your mouse pointer to the space between address bar and first tab and drag it all the way you want.

I kinda like the 'colour conscious' back and forward buttons, it changes colour based on the primary colour in the pinned favicon.

One thing I would like to see is the address bar and tabs on the same level, the way it is now doesn't feel right.

I noticed you have a custom Aero theme - I imagine that is the thing making it out of line.

[F_C]

Still can't make head nor tail of this search/address bar box thing :D

[liju]

Mine is level

I noticed you have a custom Aero theme - I imagine that is the thing making it out of line.

Yep, changed theme and now its on the same level. (Y)