We have enclosed plenty of news relating to Microsoft’s latest web browser but now the wait is finally over as Internet Explorer 9 has gone live.Believe it or not Microsoft is previously boasting that its new browser is ahead of competitors Google and Firefox. This seems like quite a bold statement to make as it comes off the back of news that it is losing 10% of the market share to Google Chrome. However, as the IE9 Beta has been downloaded more than 25 million times this at least bares some proof to the above statement.
Out of all the features that IE9 is said to offer the two that stand out the most are the privacy and speed enhancement. With regaards to privacy, the software deploys tracking protection that can limit communication with other websites, thus allowing you to connect to sites that have been directly requested. For example, you would only see content from the source and not 3rd party plug-ins such as advertisements.
As for the speed enhancements, these come up to from its new expanded support for HTML5 which can render web pages a lot quicker than its closest rivals. It achieve this due to the added hardware acceleration support which can take full advantage of your graphics card’s GPU.
Sad News is that Windows XP users will not be able to download the browser update as it is only available on Vista and Windows 7 computers.
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