IE 9 is rolling out and has a few new features as well as improved performance. It is due out tonight at 9 PM.
Unified search box now has on the fly searching as well as changing search providers
add-on performance monitor, is a little thing that warns you if an add-on is causing the browser to slow and it can be set to different thresholds to raise the alarm at.
You can pin sites to windows 7 desktop task bar and depending on the site developer's coding you can get site-specific jump lists, unread e-mail notifications, or streaming media player controls.
This version of IE also uses hardware graphics acceleration to improve performance.
The Caveat in this is that it is not supported by Windows XP, Microsoft's official reason for this is that the hardware acceleration utilized by IE 9 does not work with the device drivers in XP. It seems that they are really trying to push upgrades to windows 7, since Firefox 4 release candidate offers full hardware acceleration across multiple OSs including XP.
Looks neat, but idk if it will make me change from my Firefox
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