IE9 Addons Advisor (Channel 9)

IE9 Addons Advisor

Posted: Sep 17, 2010 at 1:44 PM

By: Larry Larsen

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We invited the Internet Explorer team to walk us through some of the new features and highlights of the Internet Explorer 9 Beta. You can find more preview videos here.

Herman Ng, Program Manager for Internet Explorer, shows how Internet Explorer 9 helps you stay in control of newly installed add-ons and notifies you when add-ons impact your browsing performance. Internet Explorer 9 Beta and information about other interesting features are available here.

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TheBanjomatic

Sep 17, 2010 at 2:02 PM

[I bring this up because the bottom of the video was occluded by the video-playback controls]

One of my biggest complaints with IE9 is that the notification windows popup from the bottom of the page. Consequently, it takes me a long time to notice them as I type in an address at the top of the window, start reading at the top of the page, and often
will have clicked on a link and moved on before reaching the bottom of the window.

I'm not sure what the reasoning was behind this decision, but it seems silly that a feature designed to bring the user's attention to something would be implemented in such a way that it doesn't catch the user's attention!
Marcelo.A

Sep 17, 2010 at 2:23 PM

TheBanjomatic agreed....
robcube

Sep 17, 2010 at 2:25 PM

I would agree with TheBanjomatic. I don't mind it at the bottom, however ... just copy what Firefox and Chrome do and silently suppress popups, not links that has a target="_blank". For example, I'm in twitter.com, I clicked on a link from a tweet, it STOPPED me from going there. What gives?
Techblogger

Sep 17, 2010 at 2:31 PM

Now how about that? This is some cool stuff for IE. Now if we can get developers to allow for add ons, I could and would switch in a New York minute
jesus1973

Sep 18, 2010 at 12:03 AM

very cool site keep up the awesome work