Something about Microsoft's new browser: IE9

TipsMake.com - In the battle between the application and the Web, Microsoft has provided both of these in its new product: Internet Explorer 9, the latest version of the most famous web browser in the world. IE9, the browser nickname, is designed to help websites look better, react faster, and operate like an application installed on your computer so you forget the feeling of browsing. Web

We tested IE9 with its rival browsers with speed tests, general usability testing to see how this new browser copes with complex graphics web pages. trash.

Fast, sometimes even faster

During testing, IE9 showed its speed very fast, and in some tests, it browsed faster than Chrome of Google, Apple's Safari and Mozilla's Firefox. The browser can also 'solve' interface-heavy websites without any problems.

We used two computers running the Windows 7 operating system to check, and even though one machine was working without problems, the other had a problem twice when browsing the web with IE9.

After obtaining a comprehensive analysis of the computer, Microsoft employees thought the problem was on the graphics card driver and suggested a switch to install in IE9 so that it could use the software more. is accelerating hardware graphics, which this new browser often uses to increase speed and performance. This conversion may cause the browser to run slower when it is used to accelerate hardware graphics.

Using the four main browsers, we measured the average time each software needed to fully open five types of websites: Facebook, Google Gmail, Twitter, WSJ.com and a personal blog site on WordPress. IE9 opened Facebook in the shortest time and had the same speed as Chrome when opening WSJ.com. Firefox has the fastest opening speed when browsing Gmail and Twitter pages, and Safari opens a personal blog site on WordPress with the fastest speed.

"Deal" with pages with large graphics

However, the time spent browsing this difference is only about 10 or even hundreds of seconds. What interests us more is how these browsers face high graphics on some websites written with HTML5 code.

We opened and browsed the Livestrong.com, joydefinesthefuture.com pages of BMW and IMDB.com. All browsers can browse these pages except Firefox when the browser cannot open the BMW page - a website that displays interactive graphics and automotive design. Videos run smoothly in browsers, but it seems a bit faster when browsing with IE9.

If users are still not satisfied with IE9's improved speed and the ability to browse high-graphics pages of IE9, they will not be able to ignore how this browser combines with Windows 7 to do some things. For example, to be able to automatically create a shortcut for a web page, click on their icon, whether from the browser's address bar or from a New Tab page, and drag it down and pin it to the taskbar.

This pinned page will display with its own icon and can act as a notification feature for a page's content. For example, when pinning a Facebook page to the taskbar, a red asterisk will appear when the user has a new notification, new message or request from a friend waiting for them.

Microsoft employees said that many sites could take advantage of these announcements to come in the near future.

Pin pages to the taskbar

Like anything pinned to the taskbar in Windows 7, each of these pinned pages has a 'jump' list, a series of commands that can be displayed and selected from the taskbar. Other functions may also work here, such as a review of a web page with a video attached. In addition, any open page can be displayed through a small image every time the user moves the mouse over them on the taskbar.

Not only that, IE 9 is also very useful with some small improvements.

The browser's Back button, the arrow in the circle, is a bit larger than other browsers, making searching and using it every time you want to go back to the previous page. This Back button along with the transition button next to it changes color based on the main color used in the page being opened.

For example, when a user opens Gmail, the arrow button will turn red. As for AllThingsD.com, the color of the button will turn green.

IE 9 allows users to drag a website's icon to the taskbar to be accessible with one click.

Many websites look like they are viewed on IE9 and other browsers, but some pages look better when the web display has a clearer, larger font and is easier to read.

However, it lacks some of the handy features of other browsers. For example, you cannot close one of many browser tabs by clicking on the red 'X' icon unless you select the tag of this site.

Chrome, Firefox and Safari both allow users to close a tag by hovering over a tag to display an 'X' icon and clicking on it to close a web page.

These shortcuts are really handy when you browse online for a birthday gift, the recipient suddenly appears behind you and you need to close this card quickly.

However, you may not like the new New Tab in IE9. This blank page will display the title along with the site name and a small icon that displays the 10 most-used websites so you can quickly choose one of them, rather than entering the URL into the bar. address. This is different from the way Google Chrome is displayed. Chrome will display 8 websites that are most frequently visited as a small representative site, helping users to identify websites and choose them more easily.

Similarly, the Safari browser displays the representative window of the 12 most visited websites in a concave display that gives you the feeling of sitting in a round room. And even though IE9 has a nice matte border around it, when we opened this browser before the Google Chrome browser, we found Chrome tags posted behind this blurry border. This proves the number of cards that Chrome provides more readers than IE9.

In addition to some occasional problems that occur during testing, IE9 works fast and is smartly designed to 'deal with' high-graphic websites. Today, websites continue to be 'poured' more and more than such content. So users will benefit greatly from using a browser like IE9.