You'll find echoes of other modern browsers across IE9. But this is not a clone or a copycat, but in fact it has several features that other browser makers would be wise to copy. IE9 has its own distinct personality and visual style, especially when compared side by side with archrival Google Chrome.
The basic design IE9 should come as no surprise if you're one of the 23 million or so people who downloaded and installed the beta IE9 between his September 15 release and now. I've already looked at that building in great detail, if you have not seen my Internet Explorer 9 Beta Review: Microsoft rethinks the browser, I strongly suggest you go back and read it, just so you can get up to speed.
I will not repeat my observations of the beta review here. Instead, I want to focus on some new features that were added after the beta. It's important sites can now include multiple tabs, for example. There's a new, very impressive track-protection feature that gives users the upper hand (at least for now) in the current skirmish with advertisers and marketers to online privacy. And if you avoid the IE, because it lacks a way to block Flash-enabled sites, please note: RC adds a new feature called ActiveX filtering, which can easily be called FlashBlock Plus.
Ultimately, this long-awaited update IE conservative and populist product. Much of its design data, based on input from the two largest sectors of the huge windows with database Microsoft: managed corporate networks and non-technical, mom-and-pop PC buyers. This creates an inherent bias of attention to make things simpler, with fewer options. The resulting product may be too easy for the browser of the elite or those who prefer a lot of customization options.
If you have abandoned IE years ago because it was slow or buggy or insecure, it's worth taking a second look at IE9, now that the beta tag has been removed. (Installation is fairly low-risk: This is easy to remove, and you can still use your default browser during the test.)
Performance in this build IE9 markedly improved over the beta version and better than any version of IE I have ever seen. As usual, I'll leave it to those who are better laboratory facilities to carry out detailed tests, but in my experience, IE9 can keep pace with the rapid modern browsers. He no longer deserves to be called a slowpoke. Using the GPU to render the page some problems making a particularly large difference in performance.
Many of the most significant changes in IE9 are promising, with the strong support HTML5, CSS 3, and other emerging standards. These changes are a big deal for developers, but it could be months or years before you see these technologies are widely used. Meanwhile, IE9 does a decent job to deal with compatibility issues for the current Web page, which were designed for earlier versions of IE.
The rest of this review, I'll look more closely at the user experience IE9, to privacy and security, and how well it works the most important unresolved issues of performance and compatibility.
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