diff --git a/src/webui/extjs.c b/src/webui/extjs.c
index d637f384..1012eaa1 100644
--- a/src/webui/extjs.c
+++ b/src/webui/extjs.c
@@ -88,6 +88,11 @@ extjs_root(http_connection_t *hc, const char *remain, void *opaque)
 
 #define EXTJSPATH "static/extjs"
   htsbuf_qprintf(hq, "<html>\n");
+  htsbuf_qprintf(hq, "<head>\n");
+
+  // Issue #1504 - IE9 temporary fix
+  htsbuf_qprintf(hq, "<meta http-equiv=\"X-UA-Compatible\" content=\"IE=8\">\n");
+
   
   htsbuf_qprintf(hq, "<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\""EXTJSPATH"/adapter/ext/ext-base%s.js\"></script>\n"
                      "<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\""EXTJSPATH"/ext-all%s.js\"></script>\n"
