I find in IE9 that I repeatedly confuse the favourites bar with the tabs of pages that I have open. Therefore, I keep opening my favourites over the top of pages I want to keep open rather than (my wanted action of) navigating to a tab containing my (already opened) favourite.
Is there any way to dock the favourites bar at the bottom of the screen instead? I find the appearance of tabs to be so minor in the interface that they blend too easily with the favourites bar.