Microsoft unveils IE9 public preview

ComputerWorld ^ | 3-16-10 | Gregg Keizer

[Justaham]

Microsoft today unveiled a public sneak peek of its newest browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), aimed at Web developers and the technically brave of heart.

"The Platform Preview, and the feedback loop it is part of, marks a major change from previous IE releases," said Dean Hachamovich, the browser team's general manager, in a statement issued today before he took the stage at MIX10, Microsoft's Web developer conference, to publicly launch IE9.

Hachamovich promised that Microsoft would update the IE9 preview about every eight weeks, putting the first such update in mid-May with another to follow in mid-July. He did not, however, disclose a release schedule for the successor to 2009's IE8, the browser bundled with Windows 7 .

IE 9 Platform Preview is far from polished, or even finished, Microsoft acknowledged, which is why it has slapped the moniker on the release, a first for IE.

"While it loads and renders Web pages using the Internet Explorer 9 platform, it is not designed to be a complete Web browser," Microsoft said in a fact sheet that accompanied the preview's announcement. "This build is simply a first look at the work Microsoft has done so far and is ready to share with its developer community."

Missing from the browser are critical user navigation tools such as the address bar, as well as security features like the SmartScreen anti-malware filter and IE8's private-browsing mechanism.

To give Web site designers, application developers, and others who want to track the new browser's progress a chance to try IE9, Microsoft has created what it called a "Test Drive" site that showcases the features and enhancements included in the preview.

[discostu]

If your browser has autocomplete turned on it should be pumping your stuff in. Depending on the browser it might wait for you to start typing something first then running an autofill once it thinks it can guess what you’re typing. What’s the browser, all of them do things a little different?

[SmokingJoe]

# 1. Some websites can be built to have the option to disable autocomplete on fields. This is a security measure. For example, banks don't generally allow the use of autocomplete, hence, saving password feature is also not going to work.

# 2. AutoComplete may be disabled(not likely since autocomplete works on some sites). You can check by going to Tools, then Internet Options. On the Internet Options screen go to the Content tab, and click the Settings button in the AutoComplete section. In the Settings make sure that "User names and passwords on forms" is checked.

If those obvious ones don't work , just go to this MSDN site and try the options.:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ieinternals/archive/2009/09/11/Troubleshooting-Stored-Login-Problems-in-IE.aspx