Internet Explorer 9 (How Outdated Is It?)

[Jody Thornton]

I currently use SeaMonkey, but I am migrating to Vista Ultimate x64 in a month or so. I really like the newer IE interface, and IE9 seems like a speedy browser. Now since I cannot upgrade to IE 10 on Vista, just how outmoded is IE9? Is it still usable?

[JorgeA]

I'm using IE9 on my Windows 7 systems (still on IE8 in my Vista machines) and have not encountered any problems.

That's not to say you won't start running into issues, as browser developers (and many webmasters) seem to want to pull everybody along on their increasingly short version cycles, but for now everything's OK.

--JorgeA

Edited November 17, 2013 by JorgeA

[MagicAndre1981]

IE9 is still ok, bit google locks you out. They only support IE8 for XP and IE10 for Win7/8

http://googlesystem.blogspot.de/2013/11/google-drops-support-for-ie9.html

[Jody Thornton]

This is what prompted my post. I had a heck of a time navigating Gmail after I upgraded my girlfriend's Windows 7 notebook to IE 11. Way too slow on Gmail. So I downgraded her machine back to IE 10. But in trying to fix this issue, I came across a similar article to what you've shown us.

So you mean to say, Google will actually block you out? I thought it would just "persuade" you to upgrade to a newer browser or use HTML mail. That's too bad if it forces you to upgrade IE 9.

[vinifera]

question is... why use IE at all

[Jody Thornton]

Well, I was specifically saying that I like the IE9+ UI and look. So I wondered how deficient the browser was. I always love when people answer the question I have asked by saying, "Run Google Chrome" or "Why run IE at all?" LOL!

[Jody Thornton]

I guess what REALLY bothers me is that Vista should architecturally be able to run at least IE 10. I believe that as long as an OS receives extended phase support, then it shoould be provided an updated browser by it's own vendor.

At the time that IE 10 was released, Microsoft responded to questions about its "no-Vista" policy, They said, "Windows Vista users have a rich user experience in IE 9, so we're not focusing on upgrading the browser for Vista (paraphrased)", but that's no longer true, so they should at least provide something that's usable until 2017.

Edited November 19, 2013 by JodyThornton

[MagicAndre1981]

the reason why MS blocks the IE10 is that Vista is out of mainstream support now.

[Jody Thornton]

Actually I've been running it with AdBlockPlus. IE 9 even works well with Google Mail. Sure the yellow warning bar threatening the end of support appears, but it all works well.

[vinifera]

its all cat and mouse play

basically any browser that supports html 5 should be able to use crap like gmail

but its alot easier to block them and force shitty chrome instead

I dunno if I can run gmail with my opera 11, but I always have loaded classic html layout in start and that one works