Internet Explorer 9 is the new edition of Microsoft's hugely popular web browser. Building on the success of previous editions of IE with new features and a new look, Microsoft has high hopes for Internet Explorer 9.The first thing you'll notice about Internet Explorer 9 is an overhauled interface. Making the most of the transparent graphical style available in Windows 7 and newer editions of Windows Vista, IE 9 looks sleek, smart and simpler than ever before. Like in Google Chrome, the Address bar and Search box have been merged to create a simpler, more seamless user experience.
Among the new features included in Internet Explorer 9 are better integration with the Windows operating system and a seriously beefed-up security system. Internet Explorer 9 also lets you 'pin' websites to the Superbar and allows you to bookmark your favorite websites as 'applications' in your OS. As for safety, the new Tracking protection and ActiveX filtering features let you block certain sites from tracking your movements online and switch off ActiveX elements on a per-site basis, respectively. The new Performance Advisor add-on identifies add-ons that are slowing Internet Explorer down (a feature badly needed in Mozilla Firefox).
Internet Explorer comes with some natural-fitting Windows 7 integration. In Internet Explorer 9, you can pin specific sites to your Windows 7 desktop taskbar. Click and hold on a tab, and drag it to the taskbar. The site's favicon will become the pinned site icon.After installing, Internet Explorer 9 also requires either a reboot or for you to shut down all your open programs. This indicates that the very manner in which the browser interacts with Windows 7 and Vista has been changed, probably for the better, but nevertheless it's an annoyance.
Internet Explorer 9 also offers improved speed and performance, as well as better compliance with web standards and new technologies. IE 9 features decent support for HTML 5 (the new generation of media-rich websites use this language), and now finishes the Acid 3 test with a near-perfect 95/100. New features like hang recovery and InPrivate Filtering provide Internet Explorer a stabler and more secure web experience than most other browsers.
In all, the latest version of Windows Internet Explorer 9 is faster and prettier than its predecessors - and really throws down the gauntlet to its competitors. Watch out: the browser wars just got exciting again.
Internet Explorer 9 :1. Faster multicore JavaScript engine
2. Support for HTML5 and CSS3
3. Very well integrated with the system
4. Sleek interface
5. Improved security features
Internet Explorer 9 is surprisingly competitive across the board. Zippy browsing speeds, minimalist layout, and innovative features make this not only the best version of IE to date, but will catapult Internet Explorer back into the browser wars. The one big drawback? You must have Windows 7 or Vista to use it. XP users are stuck on IE8. Forever.
The sound bite on Internet Explorer 9 will be a variation of "it doesn't suck," yet the changes to the browser go far deeper than that glib comment can reflect. Microsoft engineered a campaign, starting last year, to change the browser's image with both developers and casual users that was similar to the way that it got people on board with Windows 7. Frequent developer previews, devoid of features showed Web developers what the browser could do. It was only with the launch of the first beta that Microsoft added the interface. By then, the browser had already made an impact with developers because of its standards support and in-page rendering speeds, and much of the buzz coming from them was positiveThe browser interface has undergone an enormous change, following the trend of minimizing the layout to maximize screen space. Microsoft takes an approach interestingly different than its competitors, which placed the tabs above the location bar. In IE9, the tabs reside by default on the same row as the location bar, although you can switch this via a context menu. However, if you choose the Show Tabs on a Separate Row option, the tabs will move below the location bar--not above it, as Chrome, Firefox 4, and Opera have them.
Most items in the Command bar, such as print, page controls, and safety controls have been collapsed into the redesigned Tools menu. Only Tools, the Home button, and the Favorites button retain their own top-level icons. As with other browsers, the status bar is hidden by default, although it and the Command bar can be re-exposed by right-clicking on the Tab bar.
The new Tools menu is highly usable, as well, with a clean and simple layout. The Internet Options menu, on the other hand, could desperately use some font resizing and reorganizing, because it remains a chaotic mess of choices that are hard to read and harder to find.
System Requirements :1. Computer with a 233 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher (Pentium processor recommended)
2. Windows Vista 32-bit – 512 megabytes (MB)
3. Windows Vista 64-bit – 512 MB
4. Windows 7 32-bit – 512 MB
5. Windows 7 64-bit – 512 MB
6. Windows Server 2008 32-bit – 512 MB
7. Windows Server 2008 64-bit – 512 MB
8. Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit – 512 MB
9. Windows Vista 32-bit – 70 MB
10. Windows Vista 64-bit – 120 MB
11. Windows 7 32-bit – 70 MB
12. Windows 7 64-bit – 120 MB
13. Windows Server 2008 32-bit – 150 MB
14. Windows Server 2008 64-bit – 200 MB
15. Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution monitor with 256 colors
16. Modem or Internet connection
17. Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft IntelliMouse, or compatible pointing device
The browser has had tab sandboxing since Internet Explorer 8, and improves on the feature in version 9. The tab sandbox prevents a crashed individual tab from taking down the entire browser. In IE9, you can enact Chrome-style "tab ripping" so that you can drag a tab to create a new browser window, but it also integrates smoothly with the Aero Snap feature in Windows 7 by dragging the tab to either side of your monitor. This is useful for looking at two sites simultaneously. Tab sandboxing will not only prevent a single tab crash from taking down the whole browser, but Internet Explorer 9 will ask if you want to resurrect the tab, too.
A new "New Tab" page lets you resurrect closed tabs and previous browsing sessions, as well as provide large versions of your most frequently visited Web sites' favicons for quick access. It feels a bit empty because of the large amount of white space, and it lacks deep customization, but it's a step in the right direction and behaves like Opera's Speed Dial and Chrome's Most Visited Sites. One neat little exposure of personal browsing data is that mousing over a site's favicon tells you in general terms how frequently you visit that site.
As discussed earlier, the browser's performance has been greatly improved by the addition of graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware acceleration. It allows the browser to shove certain rendering tasks onto the computer's graphics card, freeing up CPU resources while making page rendering and animations load faster. These tasks include composition support, rendering support, and desktop compositing.
Internet Explorer spent years languishing, and the developments in this version are more like a ringing denouement of the process that began in IE7 to return the browser to respectability. There's no doubt that this is the best version to date of Microsoft's browser, which makes it almost shameful that the company couldn't find a way to extend support for it to legacy Windows XP users.
All that being said, the browser is fast and highly usable, and even enjoyable to use. It might not be enough for die-hard fans of other browsers to switch, but IE is now a respectable choice on the browser market.
Internet Explorer 9 features :1. Streamlined design
2. Pinned Sites
3. Download Manager
4. Enhanced tabs
5. New Tab page
6. Search in the address bar
7. Notification Bar
8. Add-on Performance Advisor
9. Hardware acceleration
Download Internet Explorer 9.0.8112.16421 HERE
Internet Explorer 9 have taken on an entirely different look. Small and minimalist, they appear at the bottom of the browser and don't stop you from browsing.The browser also appears to be eminently stable, and over multiple days worth of real-world browsing did not crash once. For Internet Explorer, that is an amazing accomplishment.
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