AS you know I have been a great fan of IE9 which seemed to have the right balance of speed, functionality and looks.
But alas it always seems to turn to tears in the long run with MS IE. Of late I have found, for absolutely no apparent reason, that there is a most vexing situation where IE9 won’t render videos correctly, throwing them off axis to the left and unable to be controlled and filling up the left hand side of the screen with rapidly flashing ads that appear when the mouse is scrolled. After much deep thought and empirical analysis I discovered that there is a fundamental incompatibility between IE9 and the Flash Player v10.3 but only on my laptop. The other computers in the house (three) are all fine.
Totally unable to rectify the problem with the usual system restores, uninstalls and reinstalls I have given IE9 away and gone to Firefox 4.0.1 which seems to have done the trick. Chrome lacks the functionality I want although it is quick and Opera is utterly incomprehensible!
I had used the Beta version of FF 4 but that had all sorts of problems (as one would expect with a beta build – doh!). The release version seems [so far] to work fine, is compatible with Adobe Flash 10.3 and solves all the problems.
You can download it here
What is it with Microsoft? Why can’t they have stable products resistant to the vagaries of ghosts in the machine?
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