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Update Explorer 9. Main features of Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer 9 (IE)- a browser from Microsoft, known to every PC user. The 9th version of the browser works with 32 and 64 bit systems Windows 7, Vista and Server 2008. It has more features than previous versions and loads pages faster. However, the program is still inferior to other modern browsers.

Significant disadvantage IE 9- poor implementation of working with tabs. This area is better represented in Opera and Chrome. In addition, in Internet Explorer 9.0, you cannot save your favorite tabs to the Tab Quick Launch in a browser window. However, IE offers another feature - the ability to save web pages in the Quick Launch right to the desktop. So, a link from the Internet acts as a separate application that can be launched without going through the browser start page.

Among the innovations, one can note the intelligent input of site addresses, the presence of tabs and visual bookmarks. This is a "step forward" compared to previous builds of the browser, but it cannot compete with, or this functionality is not able to.

The main features of the Internet Explorer 9.0 browser:

  • Russian localization
  • Compatible with OS Windows Vista and above
  • By default, the "search engine" Bing is installed
  • Simple interface
  • Protection from unwanted sites

Internet Explorer 9 RU - modern version multi-tab browser from Microsoft for Windows 7 operating systems.

The next version of the popular Internet Explorer 9, which has significantly improved over previous versions. Decreased start-up time and "heaviness". Improved performance with JavaScript. Applied hardware acceleration technologies when loading web pages and accelerators to access search services. Loading of popular sites has been accelerated.

Internet Explorer 9 answers the most modern requirements for browsers. It supports not only all modern standards, but also standards that are still planned for the future, including the HTML5 standard. The support for HTML5 video encoded in the WebM and H.265 standard is also at a decent level (when the corresponding codecs are installed in the system). Compatibility mode is supported, which allows you to view any websites designed for earlier versions of browsers.

The work of add-ons and toolbars is monitored for stability and impact on the speed of the browser. Simplified navigation controls. As with others, there are some handy extensions available, though not as many as in or. The address bar also combines the search box. The default search engines can be customized, added, or selected in which search engine to conduct a search query. In the search box, you can turn on options to display your query as you type. It is possible to pin the desired web pages and sites to the Windows 7 taskbar. Various options for setting the arrangement of tabs using Aero-effects (Aero Snap), viewing thumbnails of inactive tabs on mouse over.

Internet Explorer 9 has powerful security and control features. Protection against attacks using scripts is used, the function of detecting and blocking phishing (fraudulent) sites, such sites are immediately highlighted in color in the address bar. Protection against malicious code spread through social networks identifies websites that track user activity while browsing the web.

The browser has built-in developer tools: HTML, CSS, JavaScript script editing, profiles, network checking, as well as displaying web pages by various browser engines to solve the problems of displaying pages in different browsers.

For the convenience of users, it is possible to simply open accidentally closed tabs and restore failed tabs, or those that have crashed due to a system failure, as well as many other useful functions.

Internet Explorer has long been the most widely used web browser in the world. Internet Explorer 8 and 9 provides flexible parental controls, comprehensive technical support, and impressive speed.

However, a large percentage of IE use makes it a target for hackers and cyber thieves.

Internet Explorer is exposed to more vulnerabilities than most of its competitors, and the overall use of IE does not necessarily mean it is superior - it still lags behind other major competitors in terms of security.

Nevertheless, latest version Internet browser includes effective updates designed to tighten security. Its use of sandboxing and other techniques greatly reduces various web threats. In addition, IE 8 and 9 remain fast and extremely user-friendly, with rich pragmatic features and a user-friendly interface.

TO key features IE 8 and 9

IE has one window for searching and for entering the address of websites, and full integration with Windows 7. You can pin the list of the most frequently visited websites to the browser taskbar. In addition, you can select individual tabs and pin them to the toolbar.

For maximum privacy, Internet Explorer provides a private browsing option. You can browse the web without saving history, cookies or temporary internet files. The internet browser does not have an integrated download manager - the download still appears in a pop-up window.

The program also provides many add-ons for improved customization. There are four different categories of add-ons: security, screen saver, viewing, and entertainment. In each category you will find each of them with a description and the number of downloads. Most add-ons are free, but some you have to buy.

Security

One thing that Internet Explorer can boast about over many competing browsers is parental controls. You can manage content when your children are accessing the Internet, and use integrated tools to get reporting and monitoring of their activities.

The internet browser also does Good work to protect your computer from spyware, viruses and phishing. A cross-site scripting filter is used to prevent attacks from fraudulent websites trying to steal your personal and financial information.

The program also uses sandboxing, a security technique in which all browser tabs function as independent processes. This prevents the entire browser from crashing as a result of any single tab crashing.

Speed ​​and compatibility

Internet Explorer's speed is very competitive. It's not the fastest internet browser, but launching applications and navigating between pages is fast enough.

In addition, there are no compatibility issues as the browser supports all existing and new web standards.

Ease of use

Like all top-notch Internet browsers, Internet Explorer is clean and easy to use. The browser's basic web navigation is intuitive.

Instead of opening dialog boxes in a separate window, all notifications are combined into a notification bar located at the very bottom of the window. You don't have to respond to notifications right away, they stay in the bar until you decide on them.

Help and support

IE 8 and 9 has much better help and support among internet browsers. On the manufacturer's website you can find detailed documentation, tutorials and frequently asked questions. You can search for Internet resources by keywords.

Internet Explorer is also one of the few Internet browsers that is complemented by direct Microsoft technical support, and personalized assistance is provided via email and telephone.

With this set of browser releases, the best experience of the Web is on Windows. IE9 shows how your Web experience and browser are only as good as the operating system they run on:

Fast: With IE9, the Web delivers a new level of performance by unlocking the power of the PC hardware through Windows.

Clean: With IE9, consumers can keep sites at the center of their browsing experience, pinning them to the taskbar and interacting with them the same way they do applications.

Trusted: IE9 offers industry-leading protections (like SmartScreen) for the real-world threats (such as malicious sites and phishing scams) that consumers face every day on a sometimes-hostile Web.

Interoperable: With hardware-accelerated HTML5, developers can use the same markup across browsers to deliver a new class of Web experiences that feel more like apps than sites.

IE9 went from early preview to final release in less than a year, and in that time became the fastest growing beta of IE ever, with over 40 million pre-release downloads and 2% usage share on Windows 7. An important factor was the Web community's engagement as the IE team took a more open and transparent approach across the nine platform releases of IE9.

Our new approach started with a regular cadence of meaningful platform previews. We also regularly released “test drives” to illustrate what the platform makes possible, along with comprehensive tests that we submitted to Web standards bodies. We blogged-a lot-to make sure that developers had the right information to succeed. We delivered site-ready HTML5 in the product and treated more emerging technologies as part of HTML5 Labs in order to get your feedback and respect your time. We appreciate the community’s response. Your help and feedback were crucial and informed the changes we made.

Acting on your feedback has been a key part of this release. With the Release Candidate, for example, we took to heart over 17,000 pieces of feedback about IE9. We want to thank the millions of people who have installed and used Internet Explorer 9 during pre-release testing. The value of your feedback in developing the product is hard to overstate. The final release continues the pattern of acting on your feedback. Some of the changes that RC users will find when upgrading to the final version include:

Fast: We’ve made more performance improvements, especially on low-end machines. For example, we did additional tuning for low-end GPUs, where you will find that the Speed ​​Reading test drive is even faster.

Clean: We’ve improved site pinning with multiple pinned targets per page. Now, a site can offer users the ability to pin a site on another domain. For example, a company with four distinct properties can offer all of them for pinning on one page.

Trusted: We’ve made a variety of improvements to Tracking Protection. For example, we’ve added a link in the product to a gallery of Tracking Protection Lists to improve discoverability, and enabled ActiveX controls like Adobe Flash to participate in Tracking Protection.

Interoperable: We addressed many issues that the community reported (for example, in SVG text anchoring and WOFF font embedding) to enable the same markup to work consistently across browsers.

IE9 will be available to Windows customers via Windows Update. Machines running the IE9 beta or release candidates will be upgraded to the final release automatically. As this post about Windows 7 explains, no software project is ever really done. We will continue to monitor and act on the real world experience with IE9. The Beta and RC process showed servicing in action, and we have every intention to continue delivering on this important aspect of the product.

The Web is beautiful and powerful because of the developers and designers who build it. For some time, the people who build the Web have had better ideas for their customers than browsers have been able to deliver. Enabling developers to build rich and immersive sites that feel like native applications on your Windows 7 PC is at the heart of our approach with IE9.

Internet Explorer 9 is Microsoft's attempt to reach out to competitors that have already run away. In this version, IE has become similar to popular browsers such as, and. A number of features have been copied from different browsers. A tabbed interface, visual bookmarks, fast typing of site addresses - all of this finally appeared in IE.

An interesting feature of Internet Explorer 9 is the search for site addresses as the user types them. That is, the search is carried out not in the history of visited sites, but on the Internet. As a result, it turns out that the browser often gives you the address even before you wrote it, and this is convenient. This feature was borrowed from Google Chrome.

There is, however, one feature that is not available in any of the major popular browsers. This is pinning a bookmark to the Windows taskbar. If you need constant access to a page, you can launch it directly from the taskbar, and it will open in Internet Explorer. IE does not have the ability to lock tabs on the tab bar (like Firefox and Chrome), but it does have an original feature. What's more convenient is up to you.

Internet Explorer 9 offers protection against malicious sites, graphics hardware acceleration, and support for all the latest standards.

Personal opinion of the editor

Despite the fact that Internet Explorer can now be called a modern browser, many users remain distrustful of it. Microsoft has never been a leader in this field, and IE was popular only because it was included in the operating system. And now the situation has not changed. The latest bailout attempt in version 9 is unlikely to greatly increase the number of IE users. This is already so obvious that even the company itself spoke about the possibility of including not IE, but Firefox in Windows! I think there is nothing more to talk about ...

Key features and functions

  • Hardware acceleration of text, video and graphics. Internet Explorer 9 includes a cross-site scripting filter that detects and disables malicious scripting. The feature is enabled by default.
  • Highlighting a domain name: One of the ways to avoid getting to suspicious sites that an updated browser provides is highlighting a domain name. Internet Explorer 9 lets you see the true web address at a glance by highlighting the domain name in the address bar, making it easier to determine the security of the sites you visit.

Special Requirements

  • Processor 233 MHz or higher (Pentium processor recommended);
  • 32/64-bit Windows 7 - 512 MB;
  • 32/64-bit Windows Server 2008 - 512 MB;