Internet Explorer and Firefox users have criticized the font rendering under recent versions of Windows in the past. Some Firefox users for instance began to notice a difference after the Firefox 4 installation or upgrade. Internet Explorer users after the Internet Explorer 9 installation. Add-ons, extensions and tweaks were discovered that resolved the issues on [...]

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When you are trying to customize Microsoft’s latest web browser Internet Explorer 9 you are limited by the configuration options, called Internet Options in the browser. Those options have not really changed a lot since the release of Internet Explorer 6. Users who wanted to tweak and modify other elements of the browser had to [...]

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Firefox 4 users are not the only ones who under certain circumstances have to cope with blurry fonts in the web browser. Some Internet Explorer 9 users are also left with blurry fonts on their system which can be attributed to Internet Explorer 9′s automatic font smoothing. While I personally like font smoothing in Internet [...]

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Microsoft has released the long awaited new version of Internet Explorer a few days ago. Internet Explorer 9 is currently only available via direct download, and not via Windows Update or another updating mechanism. That limits the reach of the browser considerably for now. This will change on March 21 when Internet Explorer 9 will [...]

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Microsoft for some unknown reason has made the decision to hide the menubar in Internet Explorer 9 by default. Some users are apparently able to display the menubar permanently by right-clicking on free space in one of the toolbars and selecting the menu bar from the available options. Others do not see the menu bar [...]

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Microsoft has released the final version of Internet Explorer 9 yesterday, and most interested users won’t have any problems installing the web browser, or updating their previous Internet Explorer version. Some users on the other hand may receive error messages such as Internet Explorer did not finish installing when they run the Internet Explorer 9 [...]

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Microsoft is preparing to launch the final version of Internet Explorer 9 today at 9PM Pacific Time. This guide gives you all the information that you need to be prepared for the launch. Internet Explorer 9 will be released for 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 and the server products Windows [...]

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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 introduces several new features, among them an option to pin websites to the Windows 7 Taskbar. Webmasters can customize the feature by adding meta information to their website’s header. How can webmasters add the content to their website? Everything is handled by meta tags that are added to the head area [...]

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I have seen several reports on the Internet that users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 have troubles playing Flash videos, Java apples, games and other contents powered by plugins such as Java or Adobe Flash. The reports have emerged after the release of the IE9 Release Candidate and it seems that they are linked to [...]

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