Thursday, September 16th 2010
Microsoft Rolled Out First Public Beta of Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft released the first public beta of its sceptically-anticipated web-browser, the Windows Internet Explorer 9 (or IE9). Sceptical, because the previous two versions did not really shine compared to other web-browsers in performance, and anticipated, because it promised revolutionary changes in the rendering engine and the way it works. IE9 is one of the first browsers that uses GPU (graphics processors) for rendering almost every page element, including text and layout. It features a new Javascript engine codenamed "Chakra" that has higher JS performance, and supports HTML5 web standards. The UI itself looks very lean and modelled along the lines of Google Chrome, with just the bare-essential controls, and menus. The address bar doubles up as a search bar. There are loads of functionality improvements, including detachable tabs, Windows Aero Snap tabs, and the ability to pin favourite websites to the Windows 7 taskbar. A performance manager monitors plugins and advices you to disable those which are slowing down the browser.
DOWNLOAD: Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 9 beta
Please note, the software works only on Windows Vista and Windows 7.
Please note, the software works only on Windows Vista and Windows 7.
52 Comments on Microsoft Rolled Out First Public Beta of Internet Explorer 9
its features from both firefox and chrome :D
So, is the beta just for Win 7 and Vista? or is IE9 going to be an XP release as well?
I'm excited, but I have over 3 thousand computers with XP Pro, and literally 3 with Win7 Pro.
So how many FPS will I get with 5850CF :roll:
No XP WTF !!! :eek:
I have to check it at home :cool:
giving it a shot now, even if its not that good it may give the firefox crew some ideas to copy
in fullscreen mode you cant have a heap of tabs, since the address bar eats into that space - and in windowed mode, you cant see any of hte address bar (it scales too small)
the address bar needs a line to itself.
I like it, gives you more webspace instead of browser.
Oh well, I'll test it out at home sometime.
right now i have 26 tabs open, all of which i consider 'essential'
if i dont read it daily, i close it. those 26 are from the last 48 hours.
But yeh with firefox you can see more tabs so if you need 26 tabs open IE9 probably isnt for you.
you do know that for tabs that you rarely or never close, you can pull them down to the taskbar and treat them like shortcuts right?
Let me show you :)
You see those icons in the taskbar for each site? They are permanent until you unpin them. I mean surely you have a long enough taskbar to fit 26 icons in your dual screen setup right? haha :D