INTERNET EXPLORER 9 OR 10 WINDOWS

The whole thing feels fast - the browser is focused on standards and compliance, which makes sites built in HTML5 a pleasure to use. Do a side by side test with your current choice of browser and IE9 of the FishIE Tank at and see the difference hardware acceleration makes to rendering the fish. Instead of calling on your CPU for processing, IE9 diverts the grunt work to your graphics processing unit (GPU), which means that graphics can be rich and fast. No XP, and certainly no other operating systems.īut the point is that it's designed to take advantage of modern hardware.

INTERNET EXPLORER 9 OR 10 WINDOWS

Oh, and there's the rub: this is only for users of recent Microsoft operating systems: Vista SP2 and Windows 7. Perhaps a little too much on a wide, high-res screen as many websites are designed as though they're going to fit on a sheet of A4 paper, though generally the sense is of the browser fading into the background and putting the website centre stage.Ĭustomisation freaks will feel bereft as there's no skinning – instead the back button adopts the underlying style sheet of the website you're visiting, and the bar at the top renders in Aero glass. What you get instead of toolbars, add-ons, buttons and sidebars is just acres of screen real estate. Next to that are tabs to the far right of the screen are discreet icons for your home page, your favourites (not everyone is going to like that being moved to the other side of the screen) and your tools. The default is of course Bing, but you can change that. It's very minimalist: the box is both the address bar and the search box. However, once up and running, what's immediately obvious is its pared-down look.

Internet explorer 9 or 10