Internet Explorer 9 - IE9 Good To Go

I thought I would leave it a week or so before suggesting anyone downloads the new Beta release of Internet Explorer 9. I’ve been trialling it for a few weeks with no problems but there’s nothing like waiting for several hundred thousand, probably by now several millions of guinea pigs to give it a thorough road test to uncover any glitches. The good news is the Beta seems to be reasonably stable and trouble-free. It’s well worth a look, though the first thing to say is that it won’t run on XP, just Windows 7, though I suspect it can be persuaded to run under Vista as well. Many of the shiny new features are under the bonnet and concerned with future developments but there’s plenty to see, or rather not to see on the browser window. To begin with the address and search boxes have been combined, and it’s a lot cleaner with a major cull of menus and toolbars, leaving more space for web pages.