![]() For all its improvements, IE is still far from perfect. Phishing protection may not be IE 7’s strength but at least the browser incorporates security protocols SSL 2.0 and 3. To our disappointment, the filter failed to report most of them. To give it a try, we opened up known phishing sites published on Phishtank. Security is usually one of the characteristic weak spots of IE.Apart from a pop-up blocker, version 7 also dishes out an anti-phishing filter. Unlike Firefox however, there’s no drop down view of each item in a feed.The Favorites Center, opened up by clicking on the big star icon, is divided into favourites, feeds and history. Just click on the “subscribe to this feed” link to add it to your favourites.You can also subscribe by clicking on the small star icon on the left. Whenever you come across a site that supports RSS, the icon in the toolbar will turn its characteristic orange.Click on it and you will be lead to a page that reveals all the feeds for that website. IE 7 has improved the way it integrates RSS. We also appreciated the print preview tool, which adjusts the page according to your paper size. It includes a ‘New tab’ button for instant opening, plus an ingenious ‘Quick Tabs’ button, which opens up thumbnail previews of all your opened tabs in one screen and, unlike Firefox, IE 7 actually has a close button on each tab.You can even save groups of tabs as your homepage so they all launch upon start-up. IE has also finally decided to support tabbed browsing. Just when you thought you wouldn’t see another version of Internet Explorer this side of the next ice age, Microsoft hits the world with a totally new release of its almighty browsing app.It’s been so long in the making that many web users have got fed up with waiting for Microsoft to update its technology and have looked elsewhere – mainly in the direction of Firefox.Now the big, bad king of the browser world is in no mood to see its crown wrestled away, but can it do enough to win back its deserters? For starters, the new streamlined interface is definitely an improvement.Microsoft has basically stripped back the menu bar and hidden all of the tools and functions within a set of compact icons, placed subtly at the top-right of the interface.It allows you to see pages in a very large viewing space. Whether they improve these glitches or not, I'm moving to the main concourse of Mozilla.Xavier Slim Updated 2 years ago You wanted it easier and more secure This is not to mention the fact that some buttons on websites simply do not work on IE9 - when this happened with random links it's frustrating, when it occurs with Paypal, my Bank's website and the like it's frankly unbearable. It's more than a little frustrating that the top of the page or article gets shown and as you scroll down it all gets fudged out. I don't understand why they would let any version, beta or not, be released whereby such universal websites as Amazon, Wikipedia and Googlemaps DON'T LOAD PROPERLY. I 'upgraded' from IE8 to IE9 around a week ago and I've now reach my limit - I'm abandoning ship too. So, out of the kindness of my heart I have stuck by IE when all else haven jumped ship to Mozilla. Silly to call the Microsoft money-making power house an underdog, but it seems to be a fallen giant, and always got the flak for everything that goes wrong. I have always stuck by Microsoft because I tend to favour the underdog. Watch out: the browser wars just got exciting again.īy Anonymous reviewed on November 13, 2010 In all, the latest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 is faster and prettier than its predecessors - and really throws down the gauntlet to its competitors. New features like hang recovery and InPrivate Filtering provide Internet Explorer a stabler and more secure web experience than most other browsers. IE 9 features decent support for HTML 5 (the new generation of media-rich websites use this language), and now finishes the Acid 3 test with a near-perfect 95/100. Internet Explorer 9 also offers improved speed and performance, as well as better compliance with web standards and new technologies. ![]() The new Performance Advisor add-on identifies add-ons that are slowing Internet Explorer down (a feature badly needed in Mozilla Firefox). IE 9 also lets you 'pin' websites to the Superbar and allows you to bookmark your favorite websites as 'applications' in your OS. Among the new features included in Internet Explorer 9 are better integration with the Windows operating system and a seriously beefed-up security system.
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