
The audio tag will include native support for the MP3 and AAC codecs, while the video tag will natively support H.264/AVC. Support for other video formats, such as WebM, will require third-party plugins. IE9 includes support for the HTML5 video and audio tags. The Chakra JScript engine significantly improves support for ECMA-262: ECMAScript Language Specification standard, including features new to the recently finalized Fifth Edition of ECMA-262 (often abbreviated ES5).ĬSS improvements include support for portions of the following modules: In preliminary SunSpider benchmarks for the third IE9 Platform Preview, it outperformed the IE8 engine by a factor 10 and also outperformed the newest Firefox 4.0 pre-release. By running separately in the background, this process can take advantage of modern multi-core machines.

Compiling in the background enables users to keep interacting with webpages while IE9 generates even faster code. Windows runs that thread in parallel on a separate core when one is available. Chakra has a separate background thread for compiling JavaScript.

IE9 features a faster JScript engine than IE8's, internally known as Chakra. It introduces a minimalist interface, which brings it more in line with the current interfaces of Chrome and Opera. It is also reminicent of the Windows Live suite.

#ES EXPLORER FOR WINDOWS 7 DOWNLOAD#
These include integration with Windows 7's taskbar providing Pinned Sites, a new security-enabled download manager that manages file transfers and can pause and resume downloads and informs if a file may be malicious, address bar search, enhanced tabs and tab page, and an Add-on Performance Advisor that shows which third party add-ons may be slowing down browser performance and then allows the option to disable or remove them. IE9 includes signficant alterations to its user interface when compared with previous versions.
