Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 is now available for Windows 7 allowing users to take advantage of some great features of the new browser including faster browsing.
Internet Explorer 11 brings with it support for quite a few new standards including WebGL. Further the browser speeds up web browsing while keeping the CPU usage low thereby increasing battery life on laptops, notebooks and ultrabooks. Tab syncing feature that is available in Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 8.1 isn’t available on Windows 7 though – this feature is an 8.1 exclusive.
Microsoft claims that Internet Explorer 11 is 9 percent faster than IE 10 and 30 percent faster than browsers from other vendors on SunSpider JavaScript benchmark. To help users gauge the performance of the new browser for themselves, the Internet Explorer team has made available new performance demos on the IETestdrive site.
Internet Explorer 11 comes with a clever browser speedup technique which utilizes the computer’s GPU to decode JPEG images. Microsoft has claimed that this technique speeds up image loading by as much as 45 percent.
Beyond the usual visible enhancements there are internal enhancements which are less visible to end users and mean a lot to developers. The best example of this would be Internet Explorer’s Chakra JIT (just-in-time) compiler that speeds up ECMAScript5 getters/setters – a coding technique normally not used by developers for the fear of performance hit.
“For developers, IE11 brings increased support for modern Web standards powered by hardware acceleration to enable a new class of compelling applications and fast and fluid Web browsing. IE11 adds support for over 25 new or improved modern Web standards beyond IE10”, notes the IE team on IEBlog.
Internet Explorer 11 doesn’t support WebRTC though, which allows websites to access a system’s webcam and mic for video calls, image captures and more.
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