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With aesthetics, you can't satisfy everyone.

I'm personally glad that they pared pretty much everything down and only include interface objects that have a function: glass title bar to move the window, navigation and tabs, scrollbars, and buttons to toggle additional UI elements for special functions. Maybe people will realize also that the majority of URIs these days aren't relevant to most end users, except for the domain and subdomain. It makes sense to me to shorten the address bar.

A few critiques though:

It looks like they haven't added much new functionality to the about:Tabs page. They could have done a lot more with this.

It looks like they haven't added any indicator that history can be navigated by click-holding, right-clicking, or click-dragging on the forward/back buttons. This is not discoverable to most people.

The New Tab button doesn't advertise its function very much, and squaring it off makes it look even less apparent.

Shortcut key combinations are still stupid. How do you open bookmarks? Ctrl+B? No. Alt+C. What the hell is that supposed to mean?

Find functionality is still pretty spartan.

Comon Microsoft polish that bad boy up and ship it already

PS: Get your act together and ship a version of SILVERLIGHT X64 already.

PSS: Lastly, can you please polish up the Download manager before RTM, it looks a little bit of an eyesore in my opinion.

Comon Microsoft polish that bad boy up and ship it already

PS: Get your act together and ship a version of SILVERLIGHT X64 already.

PSS: Lastly, can you please polish up the Download manager before RTM, it looks a little bit of an eyesore in my opinion.

They'll probably talk about SL x64 at MiX in April, probably ship out a beta of SL5 even, that's also when everyone expects the IE9 final to ship as well, so we could get beta SL x64 then.

Even this build is old though, there's screenshots of a newer RC build out so I think it's best that everyone wants.

Screenshots of a more recent escrow build surfaced on Friday, version 9.00.8073.6018 (WIN7_IE9_Partner.110121-2300). Just wait for later today before you rush to install a leaked older build and then have to do yet another install later anyways.

So I just updated to the newest leaked build from the first post-beta leak, the new tab UI and the UI overall looks, or feels, like it takes up less space now. Haven't used it enough but it does seem a bit quicker yet again.

I thought the RC was to be released today. If so, does anybody have an ETA on that?

10 feb

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/ie9-release-candidate-to-be-unveiled-february-10/2931

So I just updated to the newest leaked build from the first post-beta leak, the new tab UI and the UI overall looks, or feels, like it takes up less space now. Haven't used it enough but it does seem a bit quicker yet again.

are adblock lists supported in their inprivate browsing?

are adblock lists supported in their inprivate browsing?

You mean that new feature they talked about where you block specific content like ads etc from sites at will? It doesn't seem to be, I dunno. I know you can load a list to block things though I did that back in IE8 even. You just need to find a list first.

You mean that new feature they talked about where you block specific content like ads etc from sites at will? It doesn't seem to be, I dunno. I know you can load a list to block things though I did that back in IE8 even. You just need to find a list first.

yep. i was hoping for adblock list compatibility along with block content feature. sigh. guess its opera till they fix all that

A couple of notes on 8073.6003:

* While I understand the idea behind all the buttons being in the address bar, it's a little cluttered, and if you're on a site with a security certificate it becomes a jumbled mess.

* Again I see the design principle behind making the tabs square to match the address bar, but they would seem a little more asthetically pleasing to me if they had a slight roundness to the edges. Either way, it's not the end of the world.

* InPrivate Filtering is actually missing from the options altogether. Most likely in preparation for the subscription list functionality that will supercede it.

* Oddly enough this update breaks my Notes desktop gadget. Now where the text is just displays a solid white background instead of the chosen colour - symptomatic of a CSS issue?

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