IE 9.0.6 Available via Windows Update
The April 2012 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer is now available via Windows Update. This security update resolves five privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user visits a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited any of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the local user.Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less affected than users who operate with administrative user rights.
This security update is rated Critical for Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, and Internet Explorer 9 on Windows clients and Moderate for Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, and Internet Explorer 9 on Windows servers. For more information, see the full bulletin.
Most customers have enabled automatic updating and do not need to take any action. We recommend that customers, who have not enabled automatic updating, enable it (Start Menu, type “Windows Update”). We recommend that administrators, enterprise installations, and end users who want to install this security update manually, apply the update immediately using update management software or by checking for updates using the Microsoft Update service.
—Tyson Storey, Program Manager, Internet Explorer
Comments
Anonymous
April 10, 2012
I have a question: When IE loads javascript files from the internet for a page, does it recomplie the javascript on another page if the assest has not changed? What happens "under the covers" for these resources? Trying to decide to combine and minify all my javascript for my site into one file (and reference it anywhere), or different (unique) files per page based on what the page uses. Any insight would be great!Anonymous
April 10, 2012
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April 10, 2012
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April 11, 2012
19 months since IE9 beta. When can we expect IE10 beta ?Anonymous
April 11, 2012
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April 11, 2012
Any feature updates? Like, say, oh... I don't know... some semblance of customisability that was available in previous iterations of IE? IE. ability to drag various interface elements around and lock them? How about the option to add the separate search bar back? How about the "Tab List" being returned?Anonymous
April 11, 2012
I am quite confused now. In the About dialog, the "Version" label is "9.0.8.8112.16421", the "Update Versions" label is 9.0.6. What is the latest version of MSIE9? 9.0.8 or 9.0.6? All my installed versions came automatically from Windows Update.Anonymous
April 11, 2012
"Obviously IE10 requires some core W7 changes which is not where MS should spend time right now." Really? Why? Internet Explorer is a browser, an application not unline Firefox or Opera, and those browsers work fine on even older windowses. Microsoft should put more effort in making their browser work across platforms, not making platform adapt themselves to a browser.Anonymous
April 11, 2012
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April 12, 2012
any clue on why the xp vhd(version 04/04/12 expiry:July 26, 2012) says expired eval buy retail copy?Anonymous
April 12, 2012
Leaked roadmap shows IE10 on it and predicts following updates for IE only every two years. Poor i.zdnet.com/.../mvisserroadmap2.pngAnonymous
April 13, 2012
IE V9.0.8112.16421 under Win 7 32 bit - I find IE9 is leaving all sorts of orphaned Iexplorer processes running after being closed. At times I see 4-6 Iexplorer processes in task manager when IE is closed. Only way to get rid of them is via task manager "End Program". Are there any known bugs of this sort? jmwerner@cfl.rr.comAnonymous
April 13, 2012
@John W, reboot your machine. Then open IE9 and open some websites in seprate tabs. Close IE and wait for 3-8 seconds and open Task manager > Processes and see if any iexplore process exists! I just checked it and it terminated the processes successfully. I had opened 9 tabs. @IEblog, its sad to find out that there is no progress in these matters: connect.microsoft.com/.../a-dom-manipulation-test-ie-performance connect.microsoft.com/.../ie-amnesia-forgets-all-user-preferencesAnonymous
April 14, 2012
I'm hoping for significantly improved compatibility in IE 10. I still can't do something as basic as buy a song on Amazon on my Vista machine running IE 9, and I've seen some serious incompatibilities with IE 9 on my W7 machines too, such as WYSIWYG interfaces not functioning properly, but they work fine in Firefox, Chrome AND Safari. Please Microsoft, new features are nice, but compatibility is crucial. Thanks!Anonymous
April 14, 2012
@heyjohnboy : Such things might be cases of severely botched version detections. (They use proper way for other browser, but "ignore" or have bug in detection of newer versions for IE. And it is unfortunately very widespread bug.) It can be often trivially fixed: Either you can try compatibility mode, which is designed for these cases or in Developer tools change identification of browser to one of other browsers and see if it fixes page.Anonymous
April 14, 2012
Any feature updates? Like, say, oh... I don't know... some semblance of customisability that was available in previous iterations of IE? IE. ability to drag various interface elements around and lock them? How about the option to add the separate search bar back? How about the "Tab List" being returned? http://www.newbajajpulsar.com/Anonymous
April 15, 2012
I've been doing research into IE on Windows Phones (I figure in a year or two they might be popular enough that I'll need to provide some level of support for them**) however we've discovered that the browser capabilities are significantly sub-par, and attempts to properly read window/viewport width/height/offset values from JavaScript is inaccurate. Will IE10 be ported to windows phone as an update when it launches on the desktop/tablets? I can't help but feel that the IE Blog is not doing its part to keep developers informed about IE's mobile strategy. Mobile Web is the #1 concern amongst many developers today but Microsoft is not doing much (if anything) to keep us informed about where IE on mobile is at and where it is going. thanks, kyle ** currently we sniff the user agent and if we detect windows phone we redirect to a page with link to purchase a modern smartphone from Apple, RIM, or Google. and just in case it hasn't been mentioned recently the blog comment submission problem is still here on the IE blog. It doesn't show that Microsoft has much skill with Web design when a simple comment form on their most prized Internet property for web development fails at its #1 (and most basic) feature. :-(Anonymous
April 15, 2012
"** currently we sniff the user agent and if we detect windows phone we redirect to a page with link to purchase a modern smartphone from Apple, RIM, or Google." So your goal is to make your website look like a joke?Anonymous
April 15, 2012
@Kyle: The comment system isn't broken. It's a feature.Anonymous
April 15, 2012
This is not positive news on the Lumia 900 and IE9 is the cause www.dailytech.com/.../article24445.htmAnonymous
April 15, 2012
I don't how they tested, but so far no problems - even with their website. It's identical to regular IE9 rendering. It might be caused by different mode of operation as I use desktop version of websites. So, article is badly written as it lacks needed info...Anonymous
April 15, 2012
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April 16, 2012
@Darrel: Doesn't sound like browser I use on WP7, considering that engine is same as IE9 on desktop. And browser sniffing, is wrong. Be sure you tested IE from Mango(WP 7.5) not original WP7. (Maybe if problem is in mobile rendering, suggest to users to switch to dekstop mode - DIdn't so far observe any problems with it. It's default for me.)Anonymous
April 17, 2012
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April 18, 2012
@Trevor Browser sniffing (mainly when not updated) tends to present broken site when visited with newer browser. (Already seen) Anyway so long as you don't do stupid things like blocking and let us use desktop version of site, I don't think we'll mind. (BTW: "Superior" might be quite debatable.)Anonymous
April 19, 2012
@Darrel , @Kyle, Are you kidding me? Or you guys are just a whinning trolls.. I have full javascript driven (jQuery animation, HTML5 with MooTools games) web based projects and you dont need to do anything "extra" to give support for IE9 for WP if you have provided support for IE9 for Windows. Now, if you are not trollings, let me know what your problem is I will help you with DOM JS issues for IE9 (either phone or pc - coz it has a same code base! check out the build keynotes for mango). One tip though: like happen in iOS and Android, you can switch to Desktop version when browsing on native browser.Anonymous
April 19, 2012
... One tip though: like happen in iOS and Android, you can switch to Desktop version when browsing on native browsers to avoid some rendering issues.Anonymous
April 19, 2012
still no native mathml support for ie browsers.... May be in IE version 666 ?Anonymous
April 20, 2012
@Klimax - regarding "Superior"... all of my browsers have supported the .innerHTML setter on select lists and tables since they implemented it was implemented. IE is the only browser that STILL doesn't have a shipping browser with full support for this. Which in pretty much insane considering that Microsoft was the one that invented this property... and they've known and admitted they've had this bug for over 16 years! YES THAT IS SIXTEEN!!!! IE is and always has been... the EPIC FAIL WHALE.Anonymous
April 20, 2012
@Jim: If that is your criterium, then I wouldn't want to know how big epic fails are other browsers...Anonymous
April 21, 2012
@Klimax it is actually a very important bug to get fixed. We all know that setting the innerHTML is the fastest way to dump content into the DOM. the 2 places where we typically want to dump in a bunch of data... is into a Table... or a dropdown list... e.g. a Select element. Considering that IE doesn't support this properly on the TWO KEY ELEMENTS that developers want to use it on it is well and truly a FAIL. might not be EPIC level but when you consider that its taken well over a decade to get this fixed... and it still hasn't made it to the public? well,... yeah... in that case it is an EPIC FAIL.
