Mirosoft releases second IE9 developer preview -- now where's that UI?

Hold your horses, though...while there have been some big updates internally, the one thing you're probably most curious about IE9 is still M.I.A.
IE9 Developer Preview 2 is here about two weeks ahead of schedule, but its user interface is not.
Still, the second version has progressed nicely. The fledgling browser's Sunspider benchmark result has been dropped by nearly 120ms (on my test rig it was about 11% slower than Firefox 3.7 overall), its Acidtest score crept up a few more points, and several new samples have been added to the test site (we'll have a screencast of one of the cooler demos up in a little bit).
I just wish they'd hurry up and give us access to some basic functionality like back and forward buttons and the ability to handle pop-up windows. It's rather annoying to test when pop-ups keep trying to open externally in IE8. Maybe next release...

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