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| 1.9.7916.6000 || 2010-08-04 || 95/100 || JavaScript engine as core component
| 1.9.7916.6000 || 2010-08-04 || 100/100 || JavaScript engine as core component
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| style=white-space:nowrap | '''Platform Preview 5'''
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| 1.9.7930.16406 || 2010-09-15 || 95/100 || New icon
| 1.9.7930.16406 || 2010-09-15 || 100/100 || New icon
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| style=white-space:nowrap | '''Public Beta'''
| style=white-space:nowrap | '''Public Beta'''
| 9.0.7930.16406 || (?) || 95/100 || Heavy UI modifications
| 9.0.7930.16406 || (?) || 100/100 || Heavy UI modifications
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| style=white-space:nowrap | '''Platform Preview 6'''
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| 1.9.8006.6000 || 2010-10-28 || 95/100 || CSS3 2D transforms, HTML5 semantic tags
| 1.9.8006.6000 || 2010-10-28 || 100/100 || CSS3 2D transforms, HTML5 semantic tags
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| style=white-space:nowrap | '''Platform Preview 7'''
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| 1.9.8023.6000 || 2010-11-17 || 95/100 || Improved JavaScript performance
| 1.9.8023.6000 || 2010-11-17 || 100/100 || Improved JavaScript performance
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| style=white-space:nowrap | '''Platform Preview 8'''
| style=white-space:nowrap | '''Platform Preview 8'''
| 1.9.8080.16413 || 2011-02-10 || 95/100 || Improved general performance and interop, user location tracking
| 1.9.8080.16413 || 2011-02-10 || 100/100 || Improved general performance and interop, user location tracking
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| style=white-space:nowrap | '''Release Candidate'''
| style=white-space:nowrap | '''Release Candidate'''
| 9.0.8080.16413 || 2010-11-17 || 95/100 || Improved general performance, slight UI changes, improved standard compliancy, tab rows
| 9.0.8080.16413 || 2010-11-17 || 100/100 || Improved general performance, slight UI changes, improved standard compliancy, tab rows
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| style=white-space:nowrap | '''Final release'''
| style=white-space:nowrap | '''Final release'''
| 9.0.8112.16421 || 2011-03-14 || 95/100 || Improved general performance and Tracking Protection, improved pinning
| 9.0.8112.16421 || 2011-03-14 || 100/100 || Improved general performance and Tracking Protection, improved pinning
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====Notes====
# For Acid3 scores that are listed as 100/100 , note that IE9 had an initial score of 95/100 but with a test update on September 2011 , the scores got increased to 100/100 by omitting some unnecessary requirements.
# IE9 passes both the Acid2 and Acid tests.
==See Also==
==See Also==
*[[Internet Explorer:7|Internet Explorer 7]]
*[[Internet Explorer:7|Internet Explorer 7]]
*[[Internet Explorer:8|Internet Explorer 8]]
*[[Internet Explorer:8|Internet Explorer 8]]

Revision as of 12:24, 5 October 2014

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Internet Explorer 9 is the ninth version of the Internet Explorer web browser developed by Microsoft, and was released on March 14, 2011 for the Windows Vista (SP2 with Platform Update), Windows Server 2008 (SP2 with Platform Update), Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems. The first Platform Preview (7745.6019) was released on March 16, 2010.

Minimum system requirements are a 1 GHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, and 70-200 MB (depending on the operating system installed) of hard drive space. Internet Explorer 9 is the first version of the browser since Internet Explorer 2 not to be bundled with an operating system.

Windows 8 did not ship with IE 9, but was bundled with Internet Explorer 10 instead.


Release History

Version Release ACID Notable changes
Platform Preview 1 1.9.7745.6019 2010-03-16 55/100 Support for CSS3 and SVG, new JavaScript engine Chakra
Platform Preview 2 1.9.7766.6000 2010-05-05 68/100 Inproved JavaScript performance
Platform Preview 3 1.9.7874.6000 2010-06-23 83/100 HTML5: audio, video, canvas tags, WOFF
Platform Preview 4 1.9.7916.6000 2010-08-04 100/100 JavaScript engine as core component
Platform Preview 5 1.9.7930.16406 2010-09-15 100/100 New icon
Public Beta 9.0.7930.16406 (?) 100/100 Heavy UI modifications
Platform Preview 6 1.9.8006.6000 2010-10-28 100/100 CSS3 2D transforms, HTML5 semantic tags
Platform Preview 7 1.9.8023.6000 2010-11-17 100/100 Improved JavaScript performance
Platform Preview 8 1.9.8080.16413 2011-02-10 100/100 Improved general performance and interop, user location tracking
Release Candidate 9.0.8080.16413 2010-11-17 100/100 Improved general performance, slight UI changes, improved standard compliancy, tab rows
Final release 9.0.8112.16421 2011-03-14 100/100 Improved general performance and Tracking Protection, improved pinning

Notes

  1. For Acid3 scores that are listed as 100/100 , note that IE9 had an initial score of 95/100 but with a test update on September 2011 , the scores got increased to 100/100 by omitting some unnecessary requirements.
  2. IE9 passes both the Acid2 and Acid tests.

See Also