As Google Chrome, IE9 allows you to drag a tab to create a new browser window.
Moreover, when you open a 'New Tab' page, you'll be able to open closed tabs and previous browsing sessions among with the most frequently visited Web sites.
freezes) and it will offer you the possibly to resurrect that tab. This feature prevents the crashing of your entire browser in case something goes wrong with a tab (i.e. Also, all items associated with print, safety and other controls have gone now into the Tools menu.Īs Internet Explorer 8, the browser has tab sand-boxing. Among other news, the Stop and Refresh buttons live now inside the location bar along with the search drop-down menu icon. Although, if you open several tabs at the same time, it becomes difficult to distinguish the tabs. The benefit is clear - more browsing room. There are of course, pros and cons associated with this. There is a single location bar for searches and URLs (similar to Google Chrome) and the browser tabs opens on the same row as the location bar in a single strip alongside. The first thing you'll notice when you run Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) for the first time is its new, simplified and minimalist interface. Thanks to powerful competitors (Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox) and the declining usage of Internet Explorer in general, Microsoft was forced to rebuild Internet Explorer not only to run faster (and to be more responsive), simpler and more secure, but also to be redeem itself in the eyes of web developers and standards-savvy designers against the bad reputation of being a non standards compliant browser. Interestingly enough, Microsoft is yet to reveal some of the Internet Explorer 11 features, SPDY support being one of them, which was not detailed in the IE Blog post.Īnyway, if you are curious to read more about the touch UI based improvements, head over to the following page or just download IE11 below.After two years since Internet Explorer 8 was launched, Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), available for download. – SPDY/3 and WebGL support (Microsoft notes that IE11 will scan for unsafe WebGL content and implements a software-based renderer to complement the GPU).
– New developer tools (click here for some screenshots)
– Swipe gestures for faster navigation with page prediction and pre-rendering, which will load a previous or next page instantly.
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– Full support for Favorite sites with folders and custom tile pictures. – Up to 100 tabs per window (apparently, there was a limit before, which, at least for the Windows Phone version is 6 tabs). – GPU processed gestures and GPU offloaded image decoding, which will not only improve the overall responsiveness but also enhance your tablet/laptop battery life. Basically if all your do is use touch then Internet Explorer 11 is exactly what you’ve been waiting for. Now, depending on your usage, it might not look as exciting as you expect (considering that it will soon be a year since IE10 RTM’ed).
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Following the release of Windows 8.1 Preview, users installing the following build will also be able to try the latest version of Internet Explorer 11, which seems to be aimed towards improving the touch based usage scenarios.