Internet Explorer 9 problem

[Devonmade]

I have been sent an e-christmas card from a friend, however I cannot access it, as when I click on the link nothing happens. This is not the first time I have had problems with IE9 with this type of email. I do most things in Google Chrome but my BT Yahoo email defaults to IE9. has anyone any ideas?

Sue Stoneman

[Jonesy]

If your BT yahoo email is web-based (I assume it's yahoo mail?), can you not just log in to it via Chrome? You can then determine if the issue is browser-based.

[Devonmade]

Thank you for your suggestion. It worked.

Sue

[Jonesy]

Good! IE9 (being fairly new) is still a bit ropey with certain things.

[edwardtjones]

I also had lots of trouble with ie9 with my e mails. I use sky for e mail and found only a few e mails were visible. This meant i had to delete e mails before i could read the latest. Found out my computor is 32bit, when they ask you to sign up they dont tell you that. If you Google it,, tells you you require 64 bit for IE9. hope this helps

[Devonmade]

My computer is a 64 bit version but I still had problems with IE9. My emails with BT yahoo are so much better with Chrome. I hardly ever use IE9 now.

Sue

[mfwebb]

I gave up on IE back in version 7 when it started running painfully slow. I used Google Chrome for a time then moved to Mozilla Firefox. I now use Firefox all the time although I do occasionally use Chrome just to check that it is working (it's always wise to have an alternative way to connect even if only for checking purposes). I can't remember the last time I used IE.

All the best,
Malcolm Webb
Lincoln UK

[Guest]

Good! IE9 (being fairly new) is still a bit ropey with certain things.

Interesting way of phrasing it Seems that IE9 is like IE8, not properly tested before being released. We wouldn't accept that with other products, so why should we with software?

Graham

[Jonesy]

Well Graham, it is free . And to be fair, Chrome and Firefox aren't 100% campatible with all sites; I have IE9 there on the (albeit) rare occasion a website does not display correctly in the aforementioned browsers.

IE9 will only run on Windows 7, (or Vista Service Pack 2) but it doesn't have to be the 64bit version. If a website will only properly work with the 64bit version, I’m not sure whether that’s the fault of Microsoft, or the website’s developers…

[Guest]

Well Graham, it is free . And to be fair, Chrome and Firefox aren't 100% campatible with all sites; I have IE9 there on the (albeit) rare occasion a website does not display correctly in the aforementioned browsers.

IE9 will only run on Windows 7, (or Vista Service Pack 2) but it doesn't have to be the 64bit version. If a website will only properly work with the 64bit version, I’m not sure whether that’s the fault of Microsoft, or the website’s developers…

It's up to both to ensure that they work with agreed common standards. Trouble is that Microsoft and some other developers do not test their software properly before they release it. Instead all they do is field trials (which they wrongly term beta "testing") on the grounds that users will find and report software errors. We were caused a significant problem when IE8 was released without proper testing. Although we received a small amount of financial compensation from Microsoft it went nowhere near the cost of all the hours we put in to diagnose their software fault for them.

We wouldn't find it acceptable for a bridge to be opened without proper testing (remember the furore over the Millennium footbridge?) so we shouldn't find it acceptable for untested software to be released

Graham