Users of the beta, however, felt otherwise, and many reacted noisily.Īs a result of those comments, the release candidate now includes an option to place the tabs below the address bar on a row by themselves. Microsoft argued that most users only use a few tabs, so there was more than enough room to place the two things side-by-side. One thing stuck out particularly in the beta: the positioning of the tab bar alongside the address bar, reducing the space available for tabs. The tab edges have been squared off, borders have been stripped out, the unified search/address box makes it easier to refine searches, and some low-priority notification messages will now dismiss themselves automatically after a while. I talked about the new interface extensively when I reviewed the beta: what we see today is very much a refined version of what was released in September. For all the considerable under-the-hood work done in Internet Explorer 9, it is the user interface that most users will find strikingly different. Microsoft has categorized the work it did on the release candidate into four main areas: trust and privacy, interoperability, performance, and the user experience. The new user interface was the big surprise of the beta: taking a leaf from Chrome's book, Internet Explorer 9's user interface is a pared down, minimal affair, designed to be much less intrusive and to put the focus squarely on websites rather than the browser itself. The platform previews have allowed Web developers to track the progress of the browser's core rendering engine, and to submit bugs and feedback to the company thus, when the beta was released, there were few surprises in the browser's treatment of webpages. Perhaps as a testament to the success of its platform preview program and beta release, the changes are, for the most part, quite subtle. The latest iteration of Microsoft's new browser boasts a few new features, a refined user interface, better performance, and improved standards compliance. After tens of millions of downloads of last year's beta, Microsoft has shipped the release candidate of Internet Explorer 9.
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