Five Reasons not to “Upgrade” to Windows’ Internet Explorer 9

[jamescv7]

After a couple of weeks on tinkering with the newly released Internet Explorer (IE) 9, and a host of other Web browsers, I have to say that while 32-bit IE 9 is much better than any other version of IE to date, it’s still not my first pick for a Web browser. Here’s why.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/five-reasons-not-to-8220upgrade-8221-to-windows-8217-internet-explorer-9/817?tag=mantle_skin;content

 

[Jack]

3. The 64-bit version of IE 9 is second-rate.

Of course, when I say that IE 9 is faster, I’m talking about the 32-bit version. The 64-bit model is a dog. It’s several times slower than all the other browsers when it comes to JavaScript

Very interesting point...Didn't know that...

5.Lack of Compatibility

I’ll let Ed Bott, ZDNet’s resident Windows tech expert say it for me, “I’ve spent hours studying the different signals that websites and Internet Explorer can exchange with one another, and I came away with a splitting headache. More importantly, even after reading that I’ve found multiple sites that simply won’t display quite right in IE 9. On one page hosted at blogspot.com, the only way to get text to wrap properly was to press F12 and use the Developer Tools to send a different User-Agent string to the site.”

Agree 100%... this is the BIG and MAIN problem in IE 9.... one example is malwaretips.com layout which dosen't load right when you use IE (or Opera).

 

[mhartsellm]

I've also noticed the problem with malwaretips.com and another site as well with IE9 and have reverted back to old reliable Firefox.

 

[Ink]

What problems do you see with malwaretips.com when using IE9?

 

[mhartsellm]

Well at first I got this security waring pop up (can't remember exactly what it said) so I chose to load the page, and after that each time I would go from one page to another on this site there was this fairly long pause. This does not happen with Firefox or Chrome for that matter.

 

[Ink]

The warning is due to the security certificate errors (if you use https://), but I think that has been disabled or removed. Not entirely sure.


I've been using IE9, so far working good for me. Then again I am only using it for a certain number of websites.

 

[Jack]

IE does not support modern techniques of writing websites (among them CSS 3), and a good example is this site.
IE/Opera

Chrome/FF

 

[Ink]

Well another reason not to use Opera either. :lol: I don't use IE9 for primary web browsing, so it explains why I won't complain about it.

Point #3 is just picking on IE, at least MS have an official 64-bit version unlike other web browser.

 

[bogdan]

I've also noticed the problem with malwaretips.com and another site as well with IE9 and have reverted back to old reliable Firefox.

If it was the message: "To help protect your security, IE has blocked this website from displaying content with security certificate errors" it was caused by a plugin that used https://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js and added it to our header.

 

[mhartsellm]

That very well may have been what I saw, I knew it was nothing to be concerned about. I am on IE9 now and all is going smoothly here now, so oh well:great: