Do ever wish they could just leave something well alone that works well?
Personally I never had any problems with IE8 and liked the interface. IE9 in contrast I find a pain in the backside, and so it seems do Google who can't even be bothered make their billing tab in Google Adwords compliant.
If you are having problems setting up a Google Adwords account, especially Google Adwords billing not working - install Google Chrome and you'll find it works: https://www.google.com/chrome
Our personal stats show that around 60% of people use IE as their preferred browser, whilst only 19% favour Chrome. So this could be viewed as an attempt to increase the market share of Google Chrome.
Whilst this is a bit arrogant, and must lose Google revenue as a new subscriber cannot complete account set up if they're using IE, some of the blame lies with IE as there are many other functions with errors - such as wordpress navigation systems that do not work in IE9.
Other problems you might encounter are:
Google webmaster tools slow loading scripts in IE, in fact they don't load, you have to stop them - but this works perfectly well in Chrome.
Chrome as a browser
I am not a great fan of Chrome as a browser, there are many popular functions that do not perform well, such as Java script slideshows.There is a lack of effort to make it compatible with anything other than a very modern site using CSS. Google has the biggest shop window in the world, and if only 19% market share has been achieved (according to our stats - 384 website's data) it can't just be me that doesn't like it. However it's becoming more appealing, as IE9 shoots itself in the foot!!
As web designers we always ensure our clients site's are compatible with the major browsers such as IE, Chrome, Mozilla etc...
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