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Because that would interfere with Aero Snap? I'll never understand people's obsession with stuffing crap in the titlebar.

Every other browser manages to do it :p They could easily shave a few pixels off of the height of the tabs, and remove a bit of the padding in the address bar. Or at the very least if they are leaving it as it is, just get rid of a thrid of the space or something. It's really not neccessary to have it that big!

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I'm trying out IE 9 beta as we speak. Despite running it on relatively limited hardware - Lenovo S12 netbook (Atom N270 1.66 GHz, Nvidia ION graphics, 2 GB RAM), with an external screen connected because the internal screen broke in an accident :blush: - this browser is pretty fast. Quite snappy you could say.

I'm liking what they did with the UI. The minimal browser interface fits in very well with Windows 7. The 'apps' idea makes sense. It does change your workflow - i.e. you end up with many windows with only few tabs instead of vice versa.

All in all IE 9 is a solid browser now rather than the red-headed step child among the major browsers.

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Every other browser manages to do it :p They could easily shave a few pixels off of the height of the tabs, and remove a bit of the padding in the address bar. Or at the very least if they are leaving it as it is, just get rid of a thrid of the space or something. It's really not neccessary to have it that big!

No "every other browser" doesn't manage to do it. Chrome's way of doing it was one of the reasons why I refused to even use it. IE9 was never designed to "save pixels". Perhaps you should give this a read, http://www.istartedsomething.com/20100916/behind-the-design-of-internet-explorer-9-chrome/.

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after using it for a while the GUI needs work. Im hoping it will be different in further versions. back/forward buttons are ugly. no transparency in the tabs and I refuse to look at ads. I know theres a seperate adblocker and Im using it but its not enough. Back to Firefox and I'll wait for a more polished version. Its beta and I understand that.

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No "every other browser" doesn't manage to do it. Chrome's way of doing it was one of the reasons why I refused to even use it. IE9 was never designed to "save pixels". Perhaps you should give this a read, http://www.istarteds...orer-9-chrome/.

I read it... doesn't change the fact that every other browser manages to use up the space that's usually reserved for the Title bar and still work fine with Aero Snap. And people getting confused by two clearly different lines, one of tabs and one of an address bar is questionable. It's an excuse to justify their choice, whether or not it's a valid one probably doesn't matter much now that it is done. They tend to change their tone in these regards over time too (for instance, the office orb, which at one point was a great design decision based on their research, and then a not so great design decision based on their research). It's all wishy washy stuff anyway, stick a browser in front of someone and they'll know how to use an address bar. The more "less well trained people" will still not know how to use tabs though, whether it be one one line or two

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I know it's by design, but I don't really like how the bottom few pixels of the large Forward button are cut off. They should have let the bottommost pixels overhang onto the Favorites bar, kind of like how the Start orb's bottommost pixels also overhang onto the Desktop.

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it's too bad it's not importing my favorites from firefox...pass!

That's your only reason for passing?!!

Sheesh, how lame!!

I'm passing simply because it's beta. Don't do many of those, but am enjoying reading the comments.

Sounds like a winner so far, considering it's IE and I know how hard a lot of you people here are on that!!

Clicked the link in first post. Page is unavalaible at the moment, it seems.

This link is working though, http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/

That file is 2.37MB's. How big does it turn out to be after installing?

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UI obviously still miles behind of completion. Still old ugly panels, still old xp-like status bar, still old ie7 favorites ui which isn't fits well into ie9 design, service menu left very incomplete, menus lacks of icons etc.

Anyway can't use it because of middle click bug.

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It finally installed on my good computer after a few hours.

Much better on this computer. It still need some of the standard features like spell check, but it's getting there. I've noticed a lot of rendering errors, but hopefully those will be fixed as well. I could potentially see myself using this.

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