Internet Explorer 9 Beta

[itylernallen]

What’s new in Internet Explorer 9?

The improvements to Internet Explorer are as much about what you don't see as what you do see. Internet Explorer 9 has a streamlined design, fewer dialog boxes to click through, more intuitive navigation, and many new features that speed up your web browsing experience. Features like Pinned Sites let you pin your favorite website directly to the taskbar for one-click access. Other features, like hardware acceleration, deliver an all-around faster browsing experience. With Internet Explorer 9, websites perform and feel more like the programs you use every day on your PC.

Here's what's new:

Streamlined design

The first thing you'll notice when you open Internet Explorer 9 is the compact user interface. Most command bar functions, like Print or Zoom, can now be accessed by clicking the Tools button, and your favorites appear when you click the Favorites button. Otherwise, Internet Explorer gives you the basic controls you need, and lets the web take center stage.



Note If you want to restore the Command bar, Favorites bar, and status bar, right-click to the right of the New Tab button, and then select them on the menu.

Pinned Sites

If you visit certain webpages regularly, Pinned Sites allows you access them directly from the taskbar on your Windows 7 desktop.



Pinning a site is simple: click the icon to the left of the web address in the address bar (or the website icon on the New Tab page) and drag it to the taskbar—the website's icon will stay there until you remove it. When you click the icon later, the website will open in Internet Explorer.

Whenever you open a pinned site, the website icon appears at the top of the browser, so you have easy access to the website home page. The Back and Forward buttons change color to match the color of the icon.

Enhanced tabs

Tabbed browsing allows you to move easily between multiple open webpages in a single window, but there might be times when you want to look at two tabbed pages at the same time. Tear-off tabs allow you to drag a tab out of Internet Explorer to open the tab's webpage in a new window, and Snap it for side-by-side viewing.



Tabs are also color coded to show which open webpages are related to each other—to give you a handy visual reference as you click between tabs.

Hardware acceleration

To speed up performance, Internet Explorer uses the power of your computer's graphics processor, also known as a GPU, to handle graphics-heavy tasks like video streaming or online gaming. By tapping into the GPU, Internet Explorer delivers a faster and more immersive web experience.

If you want more information please visit the Microsoft IE9 Home Page. You can also visit Beauty of the Web to download IE9 as well and see some of its new features with html5 in action.

[ruk00112]

Im a firefox person and i also use chrome sometimes but this IE 9 beta seems to be some hell of a browser. It looks awesome as well. Im downloading it as we speak and ill leave some feedback after i install and use it to the other users. Thanks a lot for the share

[itylernallen]

Im a firefoz person and i also use chrome sometimes but this IE 9 beta seems to be some hell of a browser. It looks awesome as well. Im downloading it as we speak and ill leave some feedback after i install and use it to the other users. Thanks a lot for the share

No problem mate, just glad to get the workd out about the new IE browser and get some feedback for it.

[Untouch]

Already seen it but havn't used it or downloaded it yet as it's a beta version. I'm going to wait for the official release of it.

[itylernallen]

Already seen it but havn't used it or downloaded it yet as it's a beta version. I'm going to wait for the official release of it.

Your going to wait another year or so for it to offically come out? I would download now, its really amazing.

[AceInfinity]

It looks nice, and efficient. I'm hopeing by the time they release the official version that it's performance is good and fast. I'm not one for the visuals, although thats a bonus, if they add in too much it could use more RAM than needed. But the pinned websites is good

"Performance before Visuals" for me

and I would wait a year lol. I already have firefox and google chrome, so that will be good enough for me for now.

[Combo]

It really does look good, might give it a try. Thanks for sharing.

[itylernallen]

It really does look good, might give it a try. Thanks for sharing.

No problem, I hope you enjoy :3

[Skill]

I haven't even upgraded my Internet Explorer 7 to 8, so I doubt I'll be upgrading to Internet Explorer 9. I've moved on to other browsers, Internet Explorer doesn't suit my needs anymore.

I heard the Beta version is buggy as hell. I'll probably try it out at college or something when the final version is released but that's about it.

Has anybody had a good experience with it so far?

[Untouch]

Your going to wait another year or so for it to offically come out? I would download now, its really amazing.

Dam it's going to take that long?
I thought maybe 3 months maximum it would come out officially.