IE9 is quite a bit faster tha IE8 I have been playing with it since before the official release and don’t mind it.
To get things back to the way you like you can drag around the tool bars.
Also if you right-click on the blank space around the address field you can enable the menus etc.
Kind of hard to describe without showing you, but try it and see if you can get it the way you like.
the one thing I do miss is the little history pull down menu which gave you previous sites that you had been too, so you could just step backwards through them. But i can do the same just using the history shortcut key: Ctrl+H
stay with 9,
about the toolbars, right click an empty space at the botom of the toolbar area, uncheck lock the toolbars, check any toolbar you want to use. move them around to where you want them then recheck lock the toolbars.
I am a new user of IE 9 and I really like it. Try the tips others have said and I think you will like it.
Just go back in time with system restore. I found I didn’t like #9 either.
Try safari, you have the two worse items
, Vista and IE. Heinous, systems!