Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Internet Explorer 9 for windows 7

For those of you who use Windows XP, you will not be able to use Internet Explorer 9 because Internet Explorer will not support on Windows XP and the only support in Windows 7.

Microsoft's official explanation for why Internet Explorer 9 does not support Windows XP, the operating system runs on an Estimated That 40 percent to 50 percent of the world's computers, Is That the graphics card-powered hardware acceleration that helps the browser loads pages faster doesn 't work properly with the device drivers on Windows XP. However, at least one other browsers, Firefox 4 release candidate 1, offers full hardware acceleration across multiple operating systems, Including Windows XP.

The lack of support for Windows XP aside, Internet Explorer 9 is a fantastic browser Pls compared with its predecessors, and competitive against its toughening Rivals. The browser offers Some great new features, Such as pinned sites, a revamped search box, and add-on performance impact notifications.

Pinned sites create a tighter integration Between the browser and desktop by creating site-specific browsers. Drag a tab onto the desktop Windows 7 taskbar, and depending on the site developer's coding cans you get the jump site-specific lists, unread e-mail notifications, or streaming media player controls. Other major sites have pinned That integration include Groupon, CNN, Pandora, Hulu, Slacker, Facebook, Twitter, and eBay.
Meanwhile, the new unified search box manages to include all the functionality of the old search box, such as changing search providers on the fly, while introducing on-the-fly searching so that as you type you see a relevant list of Web results, bookmarks, and browsing history.

The add-on performance notification is a small but useful feature that warns you when an add-on is slowing down the browser. You can customize what level of impact is warned for, too.

The performance of the browser itself has been lauded since last year when Microsoft rolled out developer's previews. Over the course of the following year, the developer's previews, betas, and release candidate version of IE 9 were downloaded more than 25 million times, and amounted to around 2 percent of all installed versions of Internet Explorer on Windows 7 by the time the release candidate was published.

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