After extensive testing, Microsoft Corporation has released the final version of its free Internet browser - 9. This version, thanks to its full integration with Windows 7, allows you to easily and comfortably browse the web. One of the features of this release is a simple and understandable interface that allows the user not to be distracted by various additional panels and fully focus on the content of Internet pages. It is also worth noting the following features of Internet Explorer 9: hardware acceleration for graphics and text, which significantly speeds up the work with Internet content; improved work with tabs; multifunctional address bar; unobtrusive notification bar; download manager; Chakra is a new jvascript processor; full support for HTML5, SVG, CSS3, ECMAScript5 and DOM; developer tools - function F12. And although the number of users using Internet Explorer has recently been declining due to an increase in the audience of users of other browsers - and, perhaps, this version of IE will regain its lost positions.
Main features of Internet Explorer 9:
- Hardware acceleration for graphics and text
Internet Explorer 9 uses hardware acceleration to display text, video, and graphics on web pages, allowing your website to run as fast as a regular Windows application installed directly on your computer, while still playing HD video smoothly, display larger images and make the website overall more responsive to user interaction. A new multi-core javascript engine that can take advantage of today's multi-core processors also improves the speed of Internet Explorer 9, which, together with the powerful graphics capabilities of the Windows 7 operating system, will give you a completely new experience of being on the Web.- Simple and clear interface
Very often, sites are full-fledged web applications with their own navigation, search functionality, notifications of new content, and it is on these elements, and not browser controls, that users have come to rely on. In this regard, the user interface of Internet Explorer 9 has been simplified and improved, which improves the quality of the experience of websites. Browser web page navigation controls have been simplified and organized based on how often they are used. The back button has become larger, the address bar and search field have been combined into one common address bar, and several menus from previous versions of Internet Explorer have been combined into one menu. The result in the browser window will display only what you need to browse the Internet now.- Integration with Windows 7
With full integration into the Windows 7 environment, Internet Explorer 9 allows users to get the most out of this OS for a comfortable web browsing experience. So, with the help of the “pinning” function, the user can access their favorite websites directly from the Windows taskbar without opening the browser in advance. In addition to the ability to pin any website to the taskbar, Internet Explorer 9 provides the ability to integrate websites into Windows through jump lists and controls in preview thumbnails. Jump Lists allow you to jump to the sites you visit every day without having to open your browser first. To use this feature, simply right-click the Internet Explorer icon in the taskbar. In the menu that opens, you will see pinned websites, as well as those sites that you visit most often. You can also start an InPrivate browsing session, open an empty browser tab, or close a browser window from this menu.- New tab page
The new tab page in Internet Explorer 9 now displays the most popular websites and provides instant navigation to them. In addition, a special indicator shows how often the user visited this site. For easy identification, the icon and the main color of the site itself are used. From the New Tab page, you can also reopen recently closed tabs or your last browsing session, reset your traffic indicators, or switch to InPrivate privacy mode.- Improved tabbed browsing
In Internet Explorer 9, by default, tabs appear to the right of the address bar. To display the tabs separately below the address bar, right-click in the free field to the right of the New tab button and select Show tabs below the address bar. When working with tabs, the user has the ability to move them for grouping, both within the same window and between windows. When you have many tabs open, you can waste a lot of time and effort, especially if you need to go back and find websites that are already open. In Internet Explorer 9, related tabs are shown in a single color, making it easy to keep organized when browsing a large number of web pages. If you need to view multiple web pages at the same time to perform a certain task, you can use roaming tabs with the Snap feature. This is a great way to browse multiple web pages at the same time.- Multifunctional address bar
Search and navigation functions are combined in Internet Explorer 9 in the form of an address bar called One Box. To search, just enter a query directly into the address bar, and visual cues will appear. At the bottom of the address bar drop-down menu are settings with which you can switch between different Internet search engines or add new ones. To protect confidential information, Internet Explorer provides the ability for the user to choose what information will be transmitted to search engines. In the drop-down menu of the address bar, you can enable or disable the search suggestion feature. If this feature is enabled, text will be transmitted to the Internet search engine as you type.- Unobtrusive notification bar
All service messages that occur during the operation of Internet Explorer 9 are now displayed in the most unobtrusive form in a specially designated area for them, located at the bottom of the browser window. These messages, for example, the question of the need to save a password or download a file, are formulated in the most understandable and simple language. In addition, the user does not need to perform any action in order to continue browsing the site. The notification bar becomes visible only when it is required to attract the user's attention, and in no way interferes with navigation through web pages.- Download Manager
Internet Explorer 9 is equipped with a built-in tool for accessing, monitoring and working with downloaded files - the download manager. This is a single program that allows you to view the status of downloads, display information about their possible potential danger, provide a complete security check of downloaded files, and also show the location of downloaded files.- Chakra - new jvascript engine
A new jvascript engine called Chakra is optimized to run on multi-core processors. While executing jvascript code in interpretation mode on one processor core, it simultaneously compiles another piece of this code on the second core in the background. After that, Chakra switches to executing the compiled code, which runs much faster. Background compilation and other innovations have resulted in Internet Explorer 9 performing well in popular jvascript benchmarks such as WebKit.- Full support for HTML5, SVG, CSS3, ECMAScript5 and DOM
Full support for HTML5, SVG, CSS3, ECMAScript5, and DOM provides web developers with a single set of tools to create consistent web pages that will display and function exactly the same in any modern browser. Support for all of these standards is built into the new Internet Explorer 9 browser. Combining the results of all previous work on implementing HTML5 capabilities in , the new version of the browser adds a number of new features to them. For example, support for the new Video and Audio elements allows a web page to play video and audio without using an additional plugin. In other words, a developer can insert a video or audio clip into a web page just as easily as a regular image. Another new element, Canvas, is designed to display dynamic graphics using hardware acceleration through Windows and a video card. Finally, support for programmatic functions for processing selections of text and improved mechanisms for parsing HTML code make it easier to write HTML pages.- Developer tools - function F12
Internet Explorer 9 includes a built-in developer toolkit that will make it easier to prototype, test, and debug web pages by making changes to their code and viewing the result directly in the browser itself. The new version of Internet Explorer includes User Agent Switching, Network Traffic Inspector, improved jvascript profiler, and built-in support for new web standards. To access this toolkit, just press the F12 key.Attention:
Internet Explorer 9 can only be installed on Windows Vista and 7 operating systems. If you need a version for Windows XP, use .Program interface: Russian
Platform:XP/7/Vista
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Website: www.microsoft.com
Internet Explorer is one of the most famous Internet browsers that provide the user with all the basic features when working on the World Wide Web. A fundamentally new version is absolutely no different from its predecessors.
Key Features of Internet Explorer
To begin with, it is worth noting that Microsoft developers began to follow the most modern trends in the software market, since this browser has a fairly large number of competitors, in particular, Mozilla, Opera, and Google Chrome, which is already gaining strength.
Internet Explorer allows you to perform most of the modern operations that a user needs to work on the Internet. Naturally, you can view the contents of web pages, listen to music or watch videos. The interface of the program in this case, for some reason, very much resembles the graphical shell of competitors. If earlier each page opened in a new window, now the developers have tried to give the user the choice of whether to open the page in a new window, or in one window, creating a new tab. In principle, such a function is not news today.
Now let's move on to the disadvantages of Internet Explorer and the browser in general. The thing is that Internet Explorer itself does not have a built-in downloader, that is, when downloading a file, you cannot pause and continue downloading later (as, for example, Mozilla or Opera suggest). In most cases, Internet Explorer refers to external download managers such as Download Master. It is also impossible to say that this program works faster than previous versions or competing offers. Of course, Internet Explorer blocks pop-ups, unwanted ads and has an anti-phishing system, but there are some pitfalls here. There are only minimal settings in the default settings. If you want to configure the browser so that it works in the way described above, you will have to go into the browser's properties and manually set or disable the necessary and unnecessary controls (executing and managing ActivX elements, executing scripts, etc.)
The only thing worth noting is that in this version there is a compatibility view button right on the browser bar. This means that if the site was created for a browser or system version lower than the one you are using, you can always present this page for previously released versions. This is similar to the same Microsoft Office Word, when a document created in the latest version can be opened using the previous one and vice versa.
With this set of browser releases, the best experience of the Web is on Windows. IE9 shows how your Web experience and browser are only as good as the operating system they run on:
Fast: With IE9, the Web delivers a new level of performance by unlocking the power of the PC hardware through Windows.
clean: With IE9, consumers can keep sites at the center of their browsing experience, pinning them to the taskbar and interacting with them the same way they do applications.
Trusted: IE9 offers industry-leading protections (like SmartScreen) for the real-world threats (such as malicious sites and phishing scams) that consumers face every day on a sometimes-hostile Web.
Interoperable: With hardware-accelerated HTML5, developers can use the same markup across browsers to deliver a new class of Web experiences that feel more like apps than sites.
IE9 went from early preview to final release in less than a year, and in that time became the fastest growing beta of IE ever, with over 40 million pre-release downloads and 2% usage share on Windows 7. An important factor was the Web community's engagement as the IE team took a more open and transparent approach across the nine platform releases of IE9.
Our new approach started with a regular cadence of meaningful platform previews. We also regularly released “test drives” to illustrate what the platform makes possible, along with comprehensive tests that we submitted to Web standards bodies. We blogged-a lot-to make sure that developers had the right information to succeed. We delivered site-ready HTML5 in the product and treated more emerging technologies as part of HTML5 Labs in order to get your feedback and respect your time. We appreciate the community's response. Your help and feedback were crucial and informed the changes we made.
Acting on your feedback has been a key part of this release. With the Release Candidate, for example, we took to heart over 17,000 pieces of feedback about IE9. We want to thank the millions of people who have installed and used Internet Explorer 9 during pre-release testing. The value of your feedback in developing the product is hard to overstate. The final release continues the pattern of acting on your feedback. Some of the changes that RC users will find when upgrading to the final version include:
Fast: We've made more performance improvements, especially on low-end machines. For example, we did additional tuning for low-end GPUs, where you will find that the Speed Reading test drive is even faster.
clean: We've improved site pinning with multiple pinned targets per page. Now, a site can offer users the ability to pin a site on another domain. For example, a company with four distinct properties can offer all of them for pinning on one page.
Trusted: We've made a variety of improvements to Tracking Protection. For example, we’ve added a link in the product to a gallery of Tracking Protection Lists to improve discoverability, and enabled ActiveX controls like Adobe Flash to participate in Tracking Protection.
Interoperable: We addressed many issues that the community reported (for example, in SVG text anchoring and WOFF font embedding) to enable the same markup to work consistently across browsers.
IE9 will be available to Windows customers via Windows Update. Machines running the IE9 beta or release candidates will be upgraded to the final release automatically. As this post about Windows 7 explains, no software project is ever really done. We will continue to monitor and act on the real world experience with IE9. The Beta and RC process showed servicing in action, and we have every intention to continue delivering on this important aspect of the product.
The Web is beautiful and powerful because of the developers and designers who build it. For some time, the people who build the Web have had better ideas for their customers than browsers have been able to deliver. Enabling developers to build rich and immersive sites that feel like native applications on your Windows 7 PC is at the heart of our approach with IE9.
Internet Explorer 9 RU - modern version multi-tab browser from Microsoft for Windows 7 operating systems.
The next version of the popular Internet Explorer 9, which has improved significantly compared to previous versions. Decreased launch time and "heaviness". Improved performance with JavaScript. Applied hardware acceleration technologies for loading web pages and accelerators for accessing search services. Accelerated loading of popular sites.
Internet Explorer 9 meets the latest requirements for browsers. It supports not only all current standards, but also standards that are still planned for the future, including the HTML5 standard. At a decent level, and support for HTML5 video encoded in the WebM and H.265 standard (when appropriate codecs are installed in the system). Compatibility mode is supported, which allows you to view any website designed for earlier versions of browsers.
The work of add-ons and toolbars is controlled for stability and impact on the speed of the browser. Simplified navigation management. As with others, some handy extensions are available, although not as many as in or . The address bar also combines the search box. Default search engines can be configured, added, or you can choose which search engine to search with. In the search field, you can enable options to display the query as soon as you type. It is possible to pin the desired web pages and sites to the Windows 7 taskbar. Various options for customizing the arrangement of tabs using Aero-effects (Aero Snap), viewing thumbnails of inactive tabs when hovering the mouse.
Internet Explorer 9 has powerful security and control features. It uses protection against attacks using scripts, the functions of detecting and blocking phishing (fraudulent) sites, such sites are immediately highlighted in the address bar. Protection against malicious code distributed through social networks defines websites that track user activities while browsing the web.
Developer tools are built into the browser: HTML, CSS, JavaScript script editing, profiles, network inspection, as well as rendering web pages by various browser engines to solve problems of page rendering by different browsers.
For the convenience of users, it is possible to simply open accidentally closed tabs and restore failed tabs, or those that have crashed due to a system failure, as well as many other useful features.
Latest version of Internet Explorer browser from Microsoft. 9 version of IE has changed a lot compared to its predecessors, both in terms of functionality and has undergone changes in appearance.
Internet Explorer 9 is seeing performance gains, and the first thing that catches your eye is the updated browser interface. The new interface in IE 9 is focused on giving as much space as possible for the web page and as little as possible for menus. Now the browser menu includes only the most necessary functions, and everything else is removed in the submenu, while various pop-up windows of information are now displayed at the bottom of the screen. In general, it all comes down to ensuring that the user sees as much as possible on the merits, and is not distracted from the content of the site by the cumbersome menu of the browser itself.
There is a stereotype that in a Windows operating system that has just been installed on a computer, IE is needed only to download another browser, for example, Firefox or any other. Microsoft has done a lot of work to release a truly new product that would be fundamentally different from previous versions and without their shortcomings, thereby returning a positive reputation to their proprietary web browser. Support for new web standards such as CSS3, HTML5, DOM, SVG and others, which are already used in browsers such as , Opera, . Based on the popular Acid3 test (a test of browser support for web standards), IE 9 scored 95 out of 100 possible, which is more than an excellent result. A significant increase in the speed of Internet Explorer 9 is due to hardware acceleration due to the graphics card, as well as an improved caching system and a new JavaScript engine.
It is worth noting that Internet Explorer 9 is not compatible with Windows XP, only Vista and Windows 7, which is explained by Microsoft's reluctance to support the outdated Windows XP, and XP does not have the technologies necessary for the new web browser. Summing up, we can say that in general, the nine Internet Explorer will be a fairly competitive browser, and many users, having got to know it better, will appreciate its simplicity, convenience and speed. All in all, time will tell if IE 9 becomes a browser worthy of its purpose, or remains a downloader for other more worthy web surfing products.
