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Microsoft Russia leaks IE9 beta
BETA SNAPS of Microsoft's IE9 have tipped up on the company's Russian website.
Ars Technica has a link to the Bing cache that retains the Russian Microsoft's webpages that have the screenshots, which have since been deleted from the Vole's website. The deleted snaps seem to show that Microsoft is going for an even more aggressively minimalist look than Mozilla's Firefox 4.
The URL bar, forward/backward buttons, and tabs have all been merged into a single row and multiple page elements have "been consolidated into one". "Favorites", "Suggested Sites", and "Get More Add-ons" have all been presumably moved on and cannot be seen in the screenshots. All this re-organisation is geared at providing "more room for the (Web) site itself", according to Microsoft Russia. Like Opera, Firefox, Chrome and Safari, Internet Exploder 9 appears to be preparing a "tear-off tabs" feature.
The Vole has merged the tear-off features with Windows 7's Aero Snap functionality to allow you to snap tabs to portions of the screen. The transition looks very nice with onboard Direct2D GPU rendering.
There is also the ability to turn "recognised," or "protected," sites into pinned taskbar icons to give one-click access to websites.
Of course it will not work on Windows XP which is bad news for the Russians where the operating system is powering most of the country's IT, in those regions where it is not pirated Windows 7. µ
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Firefox's memory leaks are just unbearable, and I can't stand having to restart the damn browser after it has irrecoverably sucked down a gigabyte of memory (disabling add-ons via its safe mode will *slow*, but not stop that process).
Then again, if IE lacks a decent extensions interface--and it probably will--I may just have to stick with this browser anyway, as I would've switched to Chrome already if Google had its act together in that respect (before people chime in: *real* extensions to modify all aspects of the browser, not some hokey custom drop-down menu interface which is the current API).
I actually I doubt these new "usability features" will be that useful. Just like that awful "Aero snap" I had to go out of my way to disable from Windows 7, I expect Microsoft to actually make IE9 make me want to downgrade the browser. It happened with IE8 when Microsoft killed its inline-autocomplete to make some stupid "smart address bar" to imitate Firefox's equally worthless (actually *negative* functionality) URL bar's autocomplete.
I thought it had died last year :-)
Unbelievable FAV could be Dropped, Might be button feature with drop down menu including favs, yet Not Focused Pic that well, & censored out image Now, Microsoft States thats only preview until 15Sept beta, Public gets, So Not that Long of Wait.
At least Image Is Real MaGee. Hey, How About Translator, even if go there on own, how to Save http address. Translate History into Broken Dreams. So Must be secret Opening, Passage into present: tools, pages,safety & what NOT.
Maybe Right Click on Screen browser, could work?
Could Microsoft be Selling Out to Google Chrome ummmm,O/S? Chuck Public, Hopeless Mess? Wait & See. Those Hanging Bities make difference, ask algor....
BTW Daniele Taken extreme twist towards NorthEast, Greenland, maybe further East,Like BIG U, from west Africa to ?England. Well, maybe exageration, Fizzle in Upper mid atlantic more likely. Earl heading into mid Atlantic, Will Darlin' EARL Break thru of Eastern shore Storms.Go Earl, Go.
So weather IE9 or Weather, Anybodies Guess.time Will Tell. Good Time For Crop Farmer & Friends.
vondrashek md
In typical microsoft fashion, I'm sure MS will change the name of standard things (File to a dumb logo for one) maybe change Favorites to My Saved Pages, or block access to sites they dont like (IE hates justin TV some days and says it doens't exist, other days it works fine, Firefox always works)
Maybe they can move the buttons to all 4 corners of the screen so it's even more clicks to do anything. MS slogan - "We add more clicks to everything."