So I've recently started using IE9. I'm not thrilled with it but I'm not overly dissatisfied with it either. I use Chrome on a regular basis, I only use IE9 for specific things.
What I found today: IE9 doesn't calculate time estimates correctly. Not even close! Here I'm downloading 3 files, 2/3 have horribly inaccurate download time estimates. Unless I'm doing my math incorrectly, 1.81 GB transferring at 137MB/s is about 13 minutes. This says 12 seconds! And it's not even changing even thought he percent completed is climbing! Come on Microsoft. This is basic functionality here.
I saw this the other day on a file which supposedly was going to take me 22 hours to complete. I did the time estimate and it was 8 minutes. Guess what? It finished in about 8 minutes. Please just fix this.
edit #1 I have to add two other things...
1) When you hit "pause" and then "resume" one would think the file download would be paused at x% completed and then resumed at x%. No. In my experience (twice already) when you hit "pause" it pauses the download alright, but then when you hit "resume" it just restarts the download over again...from 0%. WTF???
2) I had some error occur saying that the download was interrupted. There was a "resume" option. I clicked it. It's been saying "resuming..." for over 10 minutes now and there's NO option to cancel and start over again. I don't even know what to do besides just closing IE and restarting it which I'm not about to do until my other downloads are completed.
I'd say this first post was a huge success. 3 major issues in one post from the same product on the SAME screen!
I'm done here.
edit #2 This ended very poorly. I ended up canceling the downloads and closing IE9. The download manager completely froze. I eventually had to just flat out kill the iexplorer.exe processes. I'm installing Chrome on the production server. Fuck this and fuck IE.

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