Just a month after Microsoft presented a Release Candidate of the new, completely rebuilt Internet Explorer 9, the company has delivered the final version at this year's
SXSW. IE9 is the result of an enormous effort by Microsoft's browser development team (detailed on the
IEBlog), and benefited from more beta tester feedback than any previous product from the company. It's a huge advance from the Internet Explorers of the past in terms of speed, trimmed down interface, and HTML5 support. The new browser is available for download at
beautyoftheweb.com, but only for users of Windows 7 and Vista. For users of those OSes, it's a highly recommended upgrade, and in time, if graphics-intensive sites become the norm, it may be the best choice of all.
Among all current browsers, Internet Explorer 9 gives the most space to the webpage, with a drastically cropped top-window frame that takes up just 63 pixels, compared with Chrome's 89. Microsoft has also built in the unique new Tracking Protection, which gives users more control than Chrome and Firefox's solutions to this privacy issue. In some performance measures, particularly graphics manipulation tasks, IE9 outperforms all comers. On two out of three JavaScript benchmarks, however, it's bested by both Chrome and Firefox 4. Finally, IE9 tweaks tabs, search, and its unique pinned site capability that places site icons in the Taskbar.
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