IE 9
Windows Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) is the upcoming version of the Internet Explorer Web browser from the Microsoft. It is currently available as a Public Beta Version, released on September 15, 2010.
IE9 supports all CSS 3 selectors, improved Java Script performance, and embedded ICC v2 or v4 color profiles support via Windows Color System. It also features hardware-accelerated graphics rendering using Direct2D, hardware accelerated text rendering using Direct write, hardware accelerated video rendering using Media Foundation, imaging support provided by Windows Imaging Component, and high fidelity printing powered by the XPS print pipeline.
IE9 also supports the HTML5 video and audio tags and the Format. Some industry experts claim that Microsoft will release IE9 as a major out-of-band version that is not tied to any particular version of Windows.
New User Interface
The first thing we’ll discover is the absence of toolbars, the minimalist buttons, the super-thin menu bar, the combined search and address bar: it’s become very clean and simple.
A thin menu bar is one thing, a nice aesthetic; but, like a double rainbow. Well, this is the first of many times you’ll notice that IE9’s most important feature is that it gives the greatest prominence to the sites you visit most. Also, IE9 delivers an awesome tab experience. They can now be torn off and split easily, while Windows Snap lets you position them easily on your screen. Simply drag a tab off and drop it anywhere on your screen to give it its own window. Now you can drag one window to each side of your screen and Windows Snap will automatically resize them to sit nicely side by side. You can also snap a window on to a second monitor or into another IE9 instance.
Additionally, clicking on the new tab button will present you with an empty tab featuring your most visited sites, ordered by frequency of visit. Again, IE9 is putting your favorite sites front-row center.
One Box
The Next Major enhancement that you’ll be noticing that the search box and address bar is now combined into one. Microsoft calls this ONEBOX. Not only have that with the help of ONEBOX suggestion and Bing you can type weathered [city name] just to generate instant updates on the weather in your city or any other else.
Notification Bar
In the Previous IE’s there always use to comes the dialogue box for a download, pop-up windows attempt, security warning, password saving, or so on…. Now in IE 9 this is done by super discreet Notification Bar. The bar remains on the bottom of the current pages until you’ve responded to the notification. Also you can continue to use the site and respond when you’re ready.
As an added bonus, you’ll see that when you run several downloads you can open up the download manager for a consolidated view of your entire download. You can pause and resume selected downloads at will.
Performance: More than Meets the Eye
The IE team has posted a great deal on their blog about the breadth of considerations in implementing a high-performing browser. They cover everything from JavaScript benchmarks, common benchmark scope, multiple subsystems in building a page, and how a page is really composed.
I wanted to highlight some common considerations in performance. One of the more popular benchmarks measures pure JavaScript grunt.
It turns out the IE9 beta handles its own, leaving the gap between the fastest JavaScript engine and IE9’s Chakra engine at less than 100ms.
On the Browser Help Desk
In my experience, the number one cause of poor general browser performance is plugins and add-ons. Often, when a browser takes too long to load, or hangs on a page, you can point to a plugin, add-on, or toolbar. I’m not saying add-ons should be avoided, but they do need to be watched, particularly if you want to optimize for fast load times.
IE9 gives you two ways of ensuring you’re unimpaired by slow add-ons.
First, if an add-on is noticeably slowing load times, IE9 will fire off a notification via the Notification Bar. This will politely inform you that you may want to check your add-on load times.
Site Pinning
Another Site Pinning… till now we have only heard the pinning of the application on my taskbar. To make the daily task do fast. Now the IE 9 has provided us the facility of pinning our favorite sites pinning on our task bar…i.e. Putting your favorite sites on visit front-row center.
Site Pinning is the ability to drag a site onto the Windows 7 taskbar and have it at your disposal whenever you need it, as if it were a Windows app.
That’s it. Just grab the favicon from the ONEBOX (that’s the address bar for you old IE’s), and drop it onto your taskbar, and you have a pinned site. Now next thing you will notice that even when you browser is closed, the icon stays on your taskbar as the application does. The awesome thing is Pinned sited item only not remain on our taskbar but also it gives number of notification that you are getting on your social network site….for e.g. if you have pinned the twitter on your taskbar you can see how many tweets has been followed.
InPrivate Browsing
InPrivate Browsing was first introduced on IE 8 and inheriting the facility of the previous browser IE 9 also continues to provide the Inprivate browsing. Anonymity when browsing the Web can be important for a variety of reasons. Perhaps you are concerned that your sensitive data may be left behind in temporary files such as cookies, or maybe you just do not want anyone to know where you have been.
No matter what your motive for privacy might be, IE9's InPrivate Browsing may be exactly what you are looking for. While utilizing InPrivate Browsing, cookies and other files are not saved on your hard drive. Even better, your entire browsing and search history is automatically wiped out. This makes the user using the IE on home with the secured data can automatically wipe out the trace of visiting those sites, as well the this facility can be used on the cyber by the user to create awareness against the cookies sniffing.
Windows Live Family Safety
Windows live Family Safety is the package of the application that we get in Windows live Essentials. Windows Live Family Safety (previously Windows Live OneCare Family Safety), developed by Microsoft, is free parental content-control software for Microsoft Windows under the Windows Live brand. The program, which is roughly similar to Windows Vista's parental control feature, allows users to set guidelines and restrictions for children browsing the internet and allows parents to monitor their children's web activities. For e.g. by enabling the family safety parent can block all the porn sites that may affect the children.