IE 9

I’m playing with the release candidate right now, having set it as my default browser. Of course I still go back and use Chrome from time to time.

I’m highly amused by the IE 6 countdown site. Never have so many people, including the vendor, wanted people to stop using a product so much. And by the way, go Norway, nice job at 0.7%.

Anyway IE 9 seems pretty good. It’s quick. I haven’t seen any rendering issues. Origami looks great (but Origami always looks great).

I’m not in love with the way the tabs look. It seems like they went with the minimalist Chrome look but didn’t pull it off as well. Maybe there will be some clean up in the final version.

But overall, I would say well done. I’m sure that I will go back to Chrome. I would certainly miss Chrome to Phone and the Google Voice extensions. But IE 9 appears to be a worthy browser.

Now we just have to get corporations to upgrade to it…