This is quite useful, especially for sites we visit on a frequent basis.Īnother important improvement is the overall browser performance thanks to a new Javascript engine as well as hardware acceleration. To do so, click and hold on a tab and drag it to the taskbar to pin. Another interesting feature of IE9 is that you can pin specific sites to your Windows 7 desktop taskbar. Additionally, the browser integrates with the Aero Snap feature in Windows 7 in order to drag a tab to a side (right or left) on your monitor, which makes it easy when you want to look at two sites simultaneously. 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.
The file will download directly from Microsoft's servers.After two years since Internet Explorer 8 was launched, Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), available for download. The domain name is in bold and black font, standing out from other characters in the URL which are gray. Domain Highlighting - a technology that highlights the top level domain in the address bar, allowing users to quickly confirm that the website they are visiting is the site they intended to visit.Enhanced protection from deceptive websites and phishing.Cross-browser inconsistencies have been fixed.Strict mode which supports Internet Explorer 7 and is accessed through the emulate Internet Explorer 7 button.Quirks mode which supports Internet Explorer 5 and legacy browsers.However, three different rendering modes that may be set using the X-UA-Compatible header: Internet Explorer 8 will ship in standards mode by default.Users receive update notifications when the content changes. WebSlices: this option can expose portions of a page as a WebSlice that users can subscribe to and bring that content with them on their links bar wherever they are on the web.These are “Look up” information related to data in the current webpage and “Send” content from the current webpage to another application. Activities: these are contextual services that provide quick access to external services from any webpage.There is a separate version for Windows Vista.Īccording to Microsoft, Internet Explorer 8 features: This version of Windows Internet Explorer 8 will only run on Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or 3 installed.
Windows Internet Explorer 8 (final release) is the current browser from Microsoft (Internet Explorer 9 is in beta).
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