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If you're seeing any crazy issues with the IE9 RC, please continue to submit feedback through the right channels [1]. However, I will be monitoring this thread too. Also, I wanted to express my thanks to the news.yc community - I saw some great commentary when Beta shipped, and some neat bug reports too, thanks for helping shape up IE9! :-)

[1] http://connect.microsoft.com/

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Has the DCE bug that became the center of the SunSpider issue been fixed in the RC?

Actually, no, I don't work with JScript stuff and can't comment, sorry. I'll flag your query to the right folks, and they will look into it. Thanks!

Thanks. I look forward to the response.

I've noticed something very tiny: Using the Windows Classic theme on Windows 7 x64, the close button of the Favorites Bar (the black X with the mouseover text "Close the Favorites Center") isn't displayed properly if the bar is very slim. Oddly on Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 this doesn't happen, because here the Favorites Bar has an extra button "Add to Favorites" and the 'X' is on that button's row.

http://i.imgur.com/OgEt2.png (nevermind the "InPrivate" in the left example, in the normal mode the bar looks exactly the same)

I haven't confirmed it, but I have heard [1] that it tries to download Flash content if you don't have Flash installed.

[1] http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20110210#l-826

Are there any plans to offer test VM images as with previous versions?

Do you mean VMs for IE9, the final release whenever it goes live? I haven't heard anything otherwise, so I would assume, "yes". We're very serious about Compatibility, and making it simple for web developers to build websites, so I would honestly be really surprised if we stopped offering VMs. That said, the correct answer is, "I don't know".

Zaatar, I appreciate your visiting and giving us some info on things. Can you elaborate as to why the VMs are only for MS Virtual PC. A lot of us use VMWare and it is so painful and silly that we can't use it directly to test browsers. I know VMWare competes with MS in this fashion, but it's this kind of "our way or the highway" that irritates me.

Thanks - I've been wanting to test IE9 but the lack of XP compatibility prevented me from using it on the only VM OS I have.

I'd love images which work on VMware or VirtualBox (or are at least have a license allowing conversion) for Mac users

I wonder if they've fix the canvas composition modes ?

"We’ve added support for the HTML5 canvas globalCompositeOperation property"

I don't see "compliant" in that sentence.

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