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Remember that leaked image of the Internet Explorer 9 interface we saw last month? As it turns out, that's pretty much exactly what the beta looks like.
As you can see in Ed Bott's screenshot, Microsoft has gone with a more subdued, minimal look for IE9. Tabs are positioned to the right of the address bar, and home, favorites, and settings buttons appear at the far right. Also like Chrome, IE9 sports a unified search and address bar, something I'm particularly happy about -- since it means no more tech support calls where I often can't get it through a customer's head that the search box is not where I want them typing teamviewer.com.
Internet Explorer 9's new tab page is now an Opera-like speed dial page, presenting your 10 most frequently visited sites. I'm glad Ed likes his own blog posts enough that they're his top two sites -- probably because he's busily responding to comments. Two tab restore options are also presented, allowing you to reopen recently closed tabs or your entire previous browsing session.
So far so good, Microsoft. I like what I'm seeing in IE9 this morning. Until Sebastian is online, have a look at the ZDNet review -- it's an excellent look at the new browser.
Thanks again, Ed -- I'm glad that little coffee thing didn't prevent you from finishing up your review...
As you can see in Ed Bott's screenshot, Microsoft has gone with a more subdued, minimal look for IE9. Tabs are positioned to the right of the address bar, and home, favorites, and settings buttons appear at the far right. Also like Chrome, IE9 sports a unified search and address bar, something I'm particularly happy about -- since it means no more tech support calls where I often can't get it through a customer's head that the search box is not where I want them typing teamviewer.com.
Internet Explorer 9's new tab page is now an Opera-like speed dial page, presenting your 10 most frequently visited sites. I'm glad Ed likes his own blog posts enough that they're his top two sites -- probably because he's busily responding to comments. Two tab restore options are also presented, allowing you to reopen recently closed tabs or your entire previous browsing session.
So far so good, Microsoft. I like what I'm seeing in IE9 this morning. Until Sebastian is online, have a look at the ZDNet review -- it's an excellent look at the new browser.
Thanks again, Ed -- I'm glad that little coffee thing didn't prevent you from finishing up your review...
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsCrome TysnomiGnu32Sep 15th 2010 11:56AM
At first glance it looks like the one bar interface looks poorly thought out. But the more I look at it the more it feels like a genius idea. It is going to be a major PITA for the messy people who usually have 20 tabs open (unless it seamlessly switches to two-bar, which would be -perfect-)
Otherwise this is a much needed design refresh for IE. At least it won't have a huge, gaudy and useless orange button on the corner.
JonnySep 15th 2010 12:12PM
The interface is basically Google Chrome - not that it isn't a nice layout, just not what I was hoping for.
Then again, as long as the browser is fast and reliable I don't really care about the aesthetics.
worriedSep 15th 2010 12:49PM
Pretty crazy how many elements mimic chrome, wouldn't google have protected these separately as well as a while? I hope they have, cos you know microsoft is gonna try do the same thing then turn round and sue google for using what "they" copyrighted!!
DamianSep 15th 2010 1:18PM
It takes a lot from all the different browsers. The first thing that stuck out to me was the Firefox style "big back button".
I really really don't like what they have done with tabs, but I guess most people won't care. But how they overflow will be quite important.
It's a fair old mix, but I'm not sure I like it, we'll see how it fairs.
q3aSep 15th 2010 1:54PM
What does the favorites toolbar look like?
DabblerSep 16th 2010 6:35PM
the similarity to Chrome is only an affirmation that Google knows how to keep it simple. The developer F12 subsystem is awesome. The system integration for speed is probably what sets this browser apart from the crowd. Wish the speed dial was a little more like Chrome's or Josep del Rio's FF Speed Dial extension where you can set options, pin certain sites etc. Add ons for IE area almost non existent and that's what really makes a browser usable. Chrome has finally got a community of developers churning out extensions. I don't know if IE will ever attract the kind of talent that writes cool stuff and gives it away.