Whoa! This sounds quite premature to announce but its true that an Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview can now be downloaded and tested. The IE10 has been built on IE9 with support for a wider range of standards such as multiple-columns, grid layouts and some CSS3 gradients. If you’d like to download and “test drive’ the IE10 preview platform, head over to www.ietestdrive.com and “explore a more beautiful web”!  Read more...

Permalink: Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 1 Available For Download!

Well, well, well. Steve Jobs wouldn’t be sitting easy after reading this. Safari on Mac OS X fell to hackers at Pwn2Own contest in just 5 seconds! That’s incredibly scary by any means but the good news is, the exploits used to do this aren’t going to be released in the wild for wrong usage. A close second was Internet Explorer 8 ( who uses that? Get IE9! ), which fell to three different vulnerabilities and custom exploits.  Read more...

Permalink: Safari Pwned in 5 Seconds Followed by Internet Explorer 8 at Pwn2Own Contest – Chrome Survives!

While installing software and modifying settings to my liking on my new notebook, I stumbled across a power setting for Internet Explorer. Surprised to see it there, a little poking around showed that it adjusts the JavaScript Timer Frequency based on the currently selected power plan. How does it matter? Read on to find out.  Read more...

Permalink: Internet Explorer 9 Helps Save Battery Life for Notebooks but Can Slow Down Browsing

The long awaited Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate (RC) has just gone live and is now available for download via official links from Microsoft. The company is planning to unveil the IE 9 RC at a special event in San Francisco today. Internet Explorer 9 introduces tons of new features and security enhancements such as Tracking Protection, a new privacy feature and ActiveX filter that adds the ability to block ActiveX controls.  Read more...

Permalink: Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 9 (Release Candidate) For Download!

Microsoft released the 6th Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9 for developers, a few days ago at PDC 2010. In line with all previous platform previews, this build doesn’t have a proper UI for normal use since it’s aimed towards developers. Microsoft must think developers have no life. But they have leaked out a secret method to upgrade Internet Explorer 9 Beta to the platform preview 6 engine to gain all the new features and improvements of it while retaining the new UI. The instructions were handed out to Ars Technica by Microsoft, but we’ve made it even more easier to do so, along with a downloadable package that you can just extract and use if you don’t want to go into the technical mess.  Read more...

Permalink: How to upgrade Internet Explorer 9 Beta engine to IE9 Platform Preview 6 [Guide]

It’s been a few days since Internet Explorer 9 Beta was made available for download for Windows Vista and Windows 7 in many different languages. Microsoft did some major changes to the UI and the underlying rendering engine as well making it way faster than any before as well as more standards compliant. How a JavaScript engine is integrated into the browser is as important as the engine itself for real-world JavaScript and HTML5 performance. Microsoft started from the premise that the modern web will deliver HTML5 experiences. Accordingly, Internet Explorer 9’s Acid3 score has continued to rise and it now scores 95/100 which is totally GOOD.  Read more...

Permalink: Internet Explorer 9 Beta Review

Internet Explorer 9 Beta is now available for download for Windows Vista and 7 users. Along with this, the official website for Internet Explorer 9 Beta launch, Beauty of the Web, is also online now. We’re currently downloading the build and so should you. Meanwhile, read more about the new features in Internet Explorer 9 Beta here.  Read more...

Permalink: Download Internet Explorer 9 Beta

If we talk about the Internet browsers for PC then normally only three names would come to our minds which are Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox and Google Chrome. Many other browsers are also available but these are the most common ones. Internet explorer had a great market share of more than 90% till 2003 but since the last few year, users of Mozilla FireFox and Google Chrome are increasing because of their better performance, features and support for standards. All that is about to change: Microsoft is releasing Internet Explorer 9 beta today to the general public.  Read more...

Permalink: Internet Explorer 9 Beta set to release today–Reviews out already

Microsoft has released the third Platform Preview for Internet Explorer 9. This build, still aimed towards developers, contains a lot of improvements to Internet Explorer 9’s new Javascript engine and improves support for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1 and DOM.  Read more...

Permalink: Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3 now available for download

While browsing the Internet using Internet Explorer 8, sometimes a dialog box appears which states “This webpage contains content that will not be delivered using a secure HTTPS connection, which could compromise the security of the entire webpage”, as shown in the screenshot below. This dialog box may appear when you are opening a web address that begins with https like Hotmail or Amazon or any other secure website. This message shows that you are trying to access a web page that may include images and other elements that are hosted on a non-https location.  Read more...

Permalink: How to remove HTTPS Security Warning in IE 8