Looks like Chrome
to me.
Internet Explorer 9 is getting a stripped down interface, if a screenshot leaked online is to be believed. The next IE will feature a back button, a combined URL and search box at the top, and do away with "Favorites, "Suggested Sites," and "Get More Add-Ons" items, according to Microsoft watcher Mary-Jo Foley here. The peak …
I find IE's slow speed and tendency to freeze altogether, the best reasons to switch*. I have had several friends complain that their internet isn't working very well, or that the connection is pathetic. I then ask them to try out Chrome and they are bowled over by how quick it is!
*Having built a few websites in my time, I also harbour a bit of a grudge against it - you can guarantee that at testing stage IE won't be playing nicely...
Is she blind? I see a back button and a forward button on the left of the address/search bar. There's reload and stop buttons in the middle. Then on the right are a home, favorites and tools buttons.
I do hope this is just someone's idea of a prank though or an early test. I really don't like that they've put the address bar on the same row as the tabs. There's just not enough room there unless you only keep one or two tabs open. I also bemoan the lack of a status bar to help show me where malicious links go to. I've never liked the combined address/search bars either as I've never found them to do a terribly good job at determining whether I want to search or just go to an address. The little pull down history menu that is currently next to the back/forward buttons would also be sorely missed.
I also note that the oversized back button runs into the webpage being displayed, making it more likely that this isn't considered the finished UI.
Ready to be flamed for turning yet another browser story to Opera but......
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The only way I can see to do this in Firefox is with an extension, I could be wrong though. I don't have a Safari install to check it out so don't know how it works there.
Opera has had this, due to its MDI heritage, since the first private versions in 1995, nearly 10 years before Firefox was a twinkle in a developers eye.
Opera can tile and cascade the tabs as well as allow you to set the sizes differently if you want, I use it regulary and will be very handy this weekend for the F1. I can have live timing on one window, circuit map in another, streaming on-board video in another and streaming world feed in the last, all sized to my taste.
Well what do you expect if it's based on Java. That interface is typical shiny Java waste, and it'll perform like a dog. I know politically Java makes sense now that Sun is owned by Oracle, and because of Ballmer and Ellison's special agreement, but it still annoys me that I need the JVM just to browse using IE7.
...what I really want is a browser that will open tabs quickly, will allow you to still use it while another tab is opening and that is capable of handling page refreshing on Twitter. Oh, hang on, that would be Firefox or Chrome.
IE 8 is crap and I don't expect 9 to be any better.
Have you got spybot, or something else that puts lots of items in "restricted site list"? That slows I8 opening tabs down a lot - I usually don't find any issue using one tab in IE8 while opening 20 more and if there is flash involved I don't experience a total lock up/crash due to flash! (and flash crashing only takes out the one tab not the browser as my experience of firefox)
Typed on Firefox - sans Flash
I saw the screen shot yesterday and Im not convinced that its the final design.
its probably an early developer ui so the guys n gals at microshaft can use the developer previews a little easier than the one they dished out to us.
they said a couple of times they didn't want us using it as a everyday browser so didn't add an easy to use interface, but I would have thought the developers would want to be able to use it as much as possible while waiting for the design dept to finish tweaking a design layout so will have built themselves a basic ui for developing with.
my configuration: menu bar (File, Edit etc,) then on the same panel, Back and Forward buttons, reload, stop, home, new tab, address bar, search bar. All small icons with no text. Everything neatly contained on the same panel/bar.
It gives me everything I need at my fingertips, looks great on all monitors I've used from 15 to 22" and I'll wager it still takes up less space than IE9's solution will. The beauty of course is that anyone can change it if they decide that my way is foolish.
So yeah, not impressed by this news.
Opera is like a 500-piece pocket multi-tool with every kind of hand-tool invented + built in life raft, emergency flares, satellite missile tracking, kitchen sink and dildo polish dispenser.
And the damn thing sits in a drawer because people just want one good blade.
And it seems the more crap they pile on top the less people care about their browser.
The number of times I've heard "Opera has Ad Block built in" o rly? Show me. It's like looking for unicorn turds.
The problem with trying to "out-minimize" the competitors is that you reach the point where minimalism != good. I think the IE9 screenshot has passed that point - everything looks a bit squashed at the top.
Hopefully Mozilla will stick to there senses and make Firefox more minimal, but not as *over minimal* as this.