On August 25, 2010, Microsoft’s Russian website revealed details about the user interface of Internet Explorer 9. Since March 2010, Microsoft released four developer previews of IE9 but the previews did not have any User-Interface. The new IE9 borrowed heavily from Google Chrome browser.
The IE9 interface sports back and forward buttons with the former larger than the later like Mozilla Firefox.
Instead of providing traditional menus, the new IE9 placed tabs on top of the browser window. It also has address-cum-search bar like Google Chrome.
Like Google Chrome, the new IE9 would have a simplified UI. In a promotional statement, Microsoft said "Your browser is not overloaded with navigation elements, and compared with other browsers leaves more space for the site,……Now the user sees only what is necessary for navigation."
Uses can also pin sites to their Windows taskbar just by dragging the tabs of IE9 and then access those sites with a single click without opening the main browser.
Just like the Aero UI, the new IE9 would have “quick-release tabs” feature that would
enable users to see two-tabs in equally-sized, side-by-side frames. The first beta of IE9 will be released on September 15, 2010. Though Microsoft did not confirm any release dates, it is speculated that the browser would become available in April 2011 during Microsoft’s annual Web conference in
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