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I am extremely impressed by this release. The UI is really fast, intuitive, and the browser is just a pleasure to use. I was also pleasantly surprised by the installer. Instead of having the user restart the entire operating system is simple asks to shut down several applications, explorer.exe being one of the. Microsoft should have been doing this years and years ago, but better late than never. It's a huge improvement to the OS in general too, and I hope we'll be seeing even less mandatory restarts in the future.

EDIT: User above me said what I forgot to mention. Yep, that Options window is an outdated cluttered mess.

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I already noticed this in the RC: Compared to Safari 5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard dragging tabs around seems really jerky and awkward with Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7. There's also a bug when you tear off a tab and Aero Snap is accidentally activated you can't put it back into the original window anymore. You have to drop it, tear off the tab in the newly created window again and then place it back.

One would think Microsoft could come up with animations that are a lot smoother than this considering it's their own browser and operating system? :/

They could have cleaned up the internet options window a bit as well...

Works smoothly here, it just snaps into place again if you drag it back to an IE window. The Aero Snap issue I can confirm, though. It's probably a Snap bug, not an IE one.

To get rid of the gray border on Compatibility view sites:

Create a key in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer named "No3DBorder" and set it to 1.

The zombie game is Zombie Tycoon built with Molehill Flash Incubator:

http://molehill.zombietycoon.com/

My next trick will be to check out Speckie and see how it works, though I'm one of those people who doesn't really personally feel the need of a spell checker. ;)

So one would have to download both 32-bit and 64-bit IE9 installations to update the 32-bit and 64-bit IE8s on Windows 7 x64?

no, just install the 64bit version if you run x64, it will download everything necessary to update.

Works smoothly here, it just snaps into place again if you drag it back to an IE window. The Aero Snap issue I can confirm, though. It's probably a Snap bug, not an IE one.

Like I wrote down earlier: Compared to what you see with Safari 5 on Mac OS X the animations of IE 9 really aren't that smooth. I'm not saying the feature doesn't work the way it should, I'm just saying the actual animations are pretty rough.

Like I wrote down earlier: Compared to what you see with Safari 5 on Mac OS X the animations of IE 9 really aren't that smooth. I'm not saying the feature doesn't work the way it should, I'm just saying the actual animations are pretty rough.

Animations are fine for me... I think people would complain more if they added glamor where none is needed in attempting to animate the "Snap" more :)

Is it just me, or in the task manager, under processes, it shows multiple instances of ie9? I only have one tab open

When you open IE9... 2 (iexplore.exe) processes are opened then if you open 2 more tabs 2 more (iexplore.exe) proccesses are opened. I just tested this on my PC. Bit if you close the 2 tabs the (iexplore.exe) prcocesses are still running I think this has to do with the speed boost that IE9 delivers thanks to gpu handling

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