Microsoft’s
Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) has just been made available for download a few hours ago. First came out into beta back in
September 2010, Microsoft’s IE9 supports HTML5 and comes with a lot of bells and whistles.
Some of the features included in IE9 aren’t really new and have long been available in other browsers like Google’s Chrome.
The new IE9 feels faster, looks cleaner and more integrated
(design-wise) to Windows 7. So far, I’m a somewhat impressed with the
additional bells and whistles. It’s like Chrome + ActiveX = IE9. The
address bar also serves as search box.
It’s got a smaller footprint too and event he installation file is
just 18MB (though Firefox is only around 8MB and Flock is 13MB). I was
pretty interested with the HTML5/CSS3 support and the web app approach
which is something I’m planning to include in the upcoming re-design of
this blog.
And just like what Chrome does, each tab of IE9 runs as a separate
process so even if a windows freezes up or crashes, you can close it and
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