Fast Because Web Sites Now Use All the Power of a Modern PC

Fast Because Web Sites Now Use All the Power of a Modern PC

Internet Explorer 9 Fast Facts

Fast because web sites now use all the power of a modern PC

Full hardware acceleration of web sites / Uses graphics hardware for text, graphics, and video. Web sites can use the entire PC, not just the CPU.
New JavaScript engine (“Chakra”) / Compiles script in the background on a PC’s extra cores.
Fastest JavaScript engine per the Webkit Sunspider test.
Continued focus on performance / Since Beta release, over 2,000 changes have been made to improve browser performance for real customer scenarios.

Clean experience where the web runs and feels more like apps than sites

Pinned sites. Easy to put any site on the task bar.
Multiple home pages in a single pinned site
InPrivate Browsing for pinned sites
Pin sites to any taskbar location
Drag to Pin Support for Site Developers / 87% of people have launched a pinned app from the Taskbar, 33% of people pin at least one non-default app to the Taskbar, and 25% of end users use jump lists.
Pin multiple home pages in a single pinned site and open several web pages simultaneously.
Pin a site with InPrivate browsing enabled, and the browsing session is automatically launched InPrivate next time.
Pin sites to your taskbar wherever it’s positioned.
Developers can enable drag-to-pin support right on their pages.
Jump lists. Easy for sites to add custom jump lists as well as notifications.
Aero Snap of tabs, just like applications / Only 15% of users have opened a link in a new tab with ctrl+click, less than 25% of users have used the Home button, 30% have opened Favorites and 99% of sessions have zero folders on the Favorites Bar. Whereas, 86% of people who use Windows 7 launch application from the Taskbar.
40% of sessions have 2 or more windows visible at the same time. This was the main motivation to design Aero Snap to swiftly arrange two windows. IE9 extended that ability to tabs which you can snap to the side of the screen for a side-by-side view of web content.
Clean experience focuses on the site, not the browser
Quieter Notifications help focus on site / New UI design makes use of Windows 7 to minimize the space devoted to browser controls and not duplicating functionality people are already used to using day in and day out. More space within the browser is devoted to the site, and not the browser UI, so the site experience and branding show through.
Less important notifications automatically dismissed after a short period of time to emphasize higher pri notifications.
Private One Box combines address bar and search box
New Tab Page reflects your browsing patterns and site branding to make returning to sites easier.
Easily edit searches in One Box
Separate Tab Row
Better visibility for active Tab and easily close background tabs / Respects your privacy by default, doesn’t send your keystrokes to services. Easy to use many different search engines.
47% of the time, people just typed in the address bar to get back to a site after opening a new tab.
Search a term in One Box and then easily refine that search term without having to retype your original query.
Place tabs on a separate row from the address bar providing you more space for all your tabs.
Improved visibility of the active tab. Background tabs can be closed without having to select them first.
HTML5 & Same Markup / Support for richer application experiences (Canvas, SVG, WOFF, ES5…) that work across browsers.
Support for CSS2D Transforms, HTML5 semantic tags, Geolocation API, and playback of WebM-encoded video using the HTML5 video tag when a VP8 codec is installed

Trusted Browsing for safety, reliability, and privacy

Download manager with SmartScreen
“Malvertising” protection / Between 30% and 40% of the executable downloads today that have limited or no reputation established in our app rep system later end up declared as malware.
Notifications will glow similar to how apps behave on the Windows 7 taskbar. Increased the visibility of download speed where you can see the download speed for each file.
Hang-resistance / Applications hang, and so do web sites. Isolating sites is important for reliability.
Add-on Performance Protection / Easy to know when add-ons are installed, which ones affect performance, and disable them. 75% of all crashes in IE originate from an add-on.
Tracking Protection / Tracking Protection allows you to limit browser’s communication with certain sites - determined by a Tracking Protection List - to help keep your information private.
ActiveX Filtering / Block ActiveX for all sites and then turn them back on for only the sites that you trust.

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