IE11 Release Preview for Windows 7: 30% Faster than Other Browsers and Even More Support for Web Standards
Internet Explorer 11 continues to provide the best Web experience that is fast, fluid and perfect for touch, across the full range of Windows devices and screen sizes. The IE11 Release Preview for Windows 7 is available for download today and includes performance improvements making it 30% faster than other browsers, updates to support the latest Web standards, and developer tools improvements in response to your feedback on the IE11 Developer Preview for Windows 7.
This video shows some of the performance and developer tools enhancements in IE11 Release Preview for Windows 7
With IE11 on Windows 7, customers receive a fast, secure browser that is compatible with existing Web sites and delivers exciting new interactive Web experiences. For developers, IE11 supports the latest Web standards and technologies, making it easier to build sites that work across devices. The new F12 tools in IE11 enable developers to build high performance Web experiences, faster and more efficiently.
A Faster Web Experience
Performance matters to everyone who browses the Web. The IE11 Release Preview for Windows 7 includes additional performance tuning so that real-world sites download and display fast and are highly responsive and interactive.
You can experience IE11’s leading performance first hand with demos such as Levitation, Lawnmark, and Lite-Brite on the IE Test Drive site, showing real world Web site patterns for graphically rich, interactive, and 3D experiences. In honor of tomorrow's International Talk Like a Pirate Day, our newest test drive demo, PirateMarrrk, tests your browser’s HTML5, JavaScript, and Scalable Vector Graphics performance.
The new PirateMarrrk test drive demo tests your browser’s HTML5, JavaScript, and Scalable Vector Graphics performance.
Internet Explorer 11 advances the performance leadership of our JavaScript engine, Chakra, while ensuring compatibility, interoperability, and security. As we improve performance for real-world sites, IE11’s JavaScript performance on benchmarks like WebKit SunSpider continues to lead compared with latest version of other browsers. On Windows 7, IE11 Release Preview is 9% faster than IE10, which is a 5% improvement from the IE11 Developer Preview, and over 30% faster than the nearest competitive browser.
IE11 extends its leadership in Javascript performance , so real-world sites are faster
Even More Web Standards and Increased Compatibility with Existing Web Sites
IE11 Release Preview for Windows 7 includes updates to reflect the latest emerging Web standards. For example, now that the Pointer Events specification is a Candidate Recommendation at the W3C, IE11 supports an un-prefixed version of the emerging standard. With Pointer Events support across the full range of Windows devices (and soon to other browsers), Web sites can easily build experiences that work equally well with mouse, keyboard, pen, and touch.
IE11 Release Preview for Windows 7 adds new user controls for the Standard Delivery Profile for Closed Captioning. With the new control, accessible from the Internet Options menu, users can customize how captions appear in the browser, even overriding the default styling provided by the video source. This customization further advances IE11 as the best browser for professional-quality online video without plugins.
With IE11, users can customize the appearance of closed captions, enabling an improved online video experience
The IE11 Release Preview for Windows 7 also supports the latest Tracking Preference Expression (DNT) draft in the W3C. After installation, the IE11 Release Preview prompts the user set a default tracking preference that Internet Explorer will send to Web sites. On upgrade, IE11 Release Preview automatically preserves the user’s previous tracking preferences. .
Faster, More Efficient Developer Tools Productivity, Based on Your Feedback
IE11 includes a completely re-designed and enhanced suite of in-browser F12 developer tools. These tools help Web developers diagnose and optimize their apps quickly and efficiently. Having fast and reliable Web apps is more critical than ever.
The IE11 Release Preview for Windows 7 includes several tools enhancements to increase developer productivity and in response to the overwhelming enthusiasm and feedback we have received from developers. Here are just a few of the many improvements:
- Console: IE11 makes it easier to debug WebGL content by mapping WebGL errors to the corresponding JavaScript location. Developer productivity is improved because primitives have been added to Intellisense. With IE11, developers can debug multi-threaded Web sites with full console access while targeting Web workers.
- Debugger: An improved file picker allows faster access to files in a complex Web project.
- DOM Explorer: With IE11, developers can tune Web sites more quickly by editing CSS property values and seeing those edits in the Live DOM without having to press the enter key
- Memory: To make it easier to narrow down the source of memory leaks, the F12 tool now identifies what operations were performed on allocated data between memory snapshots.
The IE11 Memory tool identifies which memory was allocated, de-allocated, or modified between snapshots, supporting faster memory tuning and diagnosis
- Networking: A new “always refresh from server” option creates reproduceable performance results while developers rapidly iterate to tune their site performance. The tool also includes new Search Next and Search Previous functions for analyzing complex network traces.
With IE11, the “always refresh from server” option supports iterative development by producing reproducible network performance results each time you reload the page
A Better Web Today, and Ahead
IE11 provides the best Web experience across the full range of Windows devices and screen sizes with mouse, keyboard, and especially touch. Try it out for yourself with Windows 8.1 RTM from MSDN, and if you are a Windows 7 user, download the IE11 Release Preview today. Virtual Machine images of IE11 Release Preview for Windows 7 will also be available on modern.ie later this week.
Now is the time for developers to confirm that your Web sites are ready for the hundreds of millions of Windows devices and customers moving to IE11 and for business customers to verify your readiness to deploy IE11. You can find a full list of new functionality available to developers in the IE11 Developer Guide here.
We look forward to your feedback. Please share your suggestions on Connect.
Sandeep Singhal and Rob Mauceri
Group Program Managers, Internet Explorer
Comments
Anonymous
September 18, 2013
The developer toolset was in need of a major refresh. Thanks!Anonymous
September 18, 2013
Should the Developer Preview be uninstalled first?Anonymous
September 18, 2013
Where the heck is Windows 8.0 support? Since when does your current OS get left out in the cold for last gen?Anonymous
September 18, 2013
I wish Connect wasn't a graveyard. We, the developers, submit hundreds of bugs to no avail. They get left to die there, forgotten about forever.Anonymous
September 18, 2013
@Keith: LOOL!!Anonymous
September 18, 2013
Why on earth did you take out the browser mode??? Now, I won't be able to access old proprietary systems that don't run in IE 10,11!Anonymous
September 18, 2013
@Keith: It's called "install Windows 8.1 when it comes out". That's how you get IE 11 support. :|Anonymous
September 18, 2013
@whale: You don't need to uninstall the Developer Preview first. The Release Preview can install right on top.Anonymous
September 18, 2013
Why is it digitally signed 23 August 2013?Anonymous
September 18, 2013
@Michael: Except this ignores Server 2012 R1.Anonymous
September 18, 2013
When support for EventSource will be added to IE? Every other browser has it now, and having to rely on a shim just for IE it's a pity...Anonymous
September 18, 2013
"Always refresh from server" has existed since like IE7Anonymous
September 18, 2013
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September 18, 2013
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September 18, 2013
Could publish the IE Wallpaper please?Anonymous
September 18, 2013
Is that bug fixed where, if the new developer tools hangs/crashes (which it does often), all of Aero gets cranky system wide, causing context menus to not properly fade in and sometimes get stuck on the screen?Anonymous
September 18, 2013
Close, but you're not quite there yet... (hint: It is not all about speed!)Anonymous
September 18, 2013
By the way, the Bing Translator add-on has been broken since the first previews - you cannot select any languages in the dropdown menus.Anonymous
September 18, 2013
You have to account for older versions of chrome and firefox too, more of them in fact since they update so often. For IE you just have to worry about IE8-IE11 and really if your website works on IE9 then its probably going to work perfectly fine on 10/11 so it's not very hard to do. Anyway this seems to fix the issues I had with the developer preview so I wont be downgrading to IE10 =]Anonymous
September 18, 2013
OK, seems this version is generally way more stable than the previous preview, but some bugs were not fixed:
- Open an image smaller than the browser window. Hold ctrl and use the mouse wheel to enlarge it. Then try using middle click scrolling: it won't be available, unless the image was bigger than the image in the first place. So if you make an image wider than the viewport, you can still only scroll up-down.
- some javascript code is stuck running on ebay even after tabs are closed. This specific code is caught in an infinite loop, causing 100% cpu usage per core. So the fact that they stay that way after closing the tabs makes it so that after lengthy sessions, ebay causes your cpu usage to max out non stop.
- still no option to properly customize language autocorrect. You can only enable/disable language correction, but you cannot turn off autocorrect separately. On a side note it would be nice if IE would autodetect the required dictionary language based on the site language (if specified), for those who frequent multiple different language sites.
- text overflows from the boxes when using ctrl+shift+u in the Hungarian language version.
Anonymous
September 18, 2013
"On upgrade, IE11 Release Preview automatically preserves the user’s previous tracking preferences." Yes but in IE 10 you had already set DNT to on by default. So, if I am understanding this correctly, most users will not be prompted, since they are updating from IE 10 to IE 11, and IE 10 had already taken care of setting the default DNT preference. Your behavior is sneaky, wouldn't you agree?Anonymous
September 18, 2013
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September 18, 2013
As a follow up: In general what is happening with the move to HTML5 apps and accessibility? Seriously! I want you to think carefully about this question: If most apps are becoming HTML5-based, aren't we throwing away 25 years of accessibility experience in Windows? Experience which has perfected keyboard navigation? How are we going to get this in HTML5 apps? What standards are you going to push forward in order to achieve this? Microsoft used to lead with accessibility efforts. Please try and propose something. HTML5 does not have controls that offer by default a rich keyboard experience. Developers are lazy and will never implement keyboard commands if they are not there by default. Also, many websites do not even use the standard HTML5 UI controls. They use a sea of divs that are made to look like the actual control but they are not really fully implemented underneath. And what about moving among controls or for groupping controls? HTML5 only offers tabindex. It's completely inadequate. Windows desktop apps have panels, toolbars, list views, etc. all with there own rich set of keyboard navigation commands and different ways to jump between them in smaller or larger increments, i.e. from smaller to larger we have: the cursors, tab, ctrl+tab, f6 and ctrl+f6 (plus the above keys with shift prepended for the reverse direction).Anonymous
September 18, 2013
i think IE installing progress is not good for one big corporation !? very very simple ?????! and very very slow ?!!!!??????Anonymous
September 18, 2013
Did you fix the fuglified interface?Anonymous
September 18, 2013
thanks, good work!!Anonymous
September 18, 2013
What IE really lacks is convenient bookmark importing: When importing bookmarks from another computer (IE) or browser, keep the bookmarks in the same sequence as the one you import it fromAnonymous
September 18, 2013
I really like the speed in IE11 and the new Developer tools. But like Roman says we need the "Browser mode" back in the Developer tools. Apart from missing the browser mode IE11 is great!Anonymous
September 18, 2013
Installed it this morning. It's broken! Couldn't set focus and/or enter text in any input field, including login credentials fields on outlook.com, skydrive.live.com, etc ...Anonymous
September 18, 2013
I'm looking for the right word to describe this browser and can't find one. Speed is half way there, supported functions are half way there, and so on. Java Script is the basic of all web pages, i don't want to say that Sunspider is an exception but it looks that way. Some other benchmarks show that I.E. is not ready, so that's that. Here is good example of it, if i can't post a link to, Hixie_DOM.htmlAnonymous
September 18, 2013
It is concerning that there are still differences in web standards support between the Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 versions (eg Encrypted Media Extensions and Media Source Extensions). So now we will apparantly have two differently behaving browsers with the same name and version number to confuse users and developers.Anonymous
September 18, 2013
The think that bothers me a lot on IE10 (and earlier) is the fact that when you are using File --> Save as... on a rather large page you need to wait untill the page is fully saved before you can switch tabs... It would be nice to switch to a different tab and come back later and see if the page has been saved.Anonymous
September 18, 2013
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September 18, 2013
part 3 I put a long comment. Hope people can read it and thing about it. This can't be answered since Microsoft can't do anything with this already died project. Make new feature can't make this project start running. Last but not last, Why don't you stop it like what you have done with Expression Web,Microsoft frontpage and Expression Design.Anonymous
September 19, 2013
http://html5test.com/ Cannot Save HTTPS Certificates without running as adminAnonymous
September 19, 2013
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September 19, 2013
@Arieta: We are trying to reproduce the JavaScript problem you are having with ebay. Could you share more information about the exact repro steps and let us know for how long you see the CPU utilization at 100% after closing the tab or the browser.Anonymous
September 19, 2013
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September 19, 2013
A request for a future version: I wish the IE team would make IE abandon system or application modal dialogs. It should NEVER be the case that a website popping up a dialog should prevent me from switching to another tab. This is my biggest pet peeve, I think.Anonymous
September 19, 2013
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September 19, 2013
@"@chewbacca" - You do not really need to account for older Chrome or Firefox versions (perhaps only versions earlier than Firefox 4). Automatic updates kick in quickly and 99% of the users are up to date within a couple of weeks, so this is a non issue. With Internet Explorer, you do have to account for at least four (major) versions now, but there are multiple configurations for which you might need to account for almost every version (did you know, for example, that Internet Explorer 8 has background position issues when running within Windows XP that uses the Windows Classic (meaning, not Luna) theme, for example?). I believe Chrome and Firefox have far fewer differences between the various platforms and configurations.Anonymous
September 19, 2013
Is anyone having a problem with logging into certain sites with IE11 Preview Release? I found one site so far that has this problem, so I had to use Firefox to log in. I heard one other complaint about this before it happened to me.Anonymous
September 19, 2013
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September 19, 2013
On nontroppo.org/.../Hixie_DOM.html, IE11 preview takes 511ms on my system and Chrome takes 27ms. What a pity!Anonymous
September 19, 2013
@Mark:
- No, we do not have different document mode support on Windows 7 than we do on Windows 8.1.
- No, all existing document modes are still supported. We did not introduce a new IE11 document mode distinct from Edge mode.
- Yes. Developers can still opt into document modes for their sites, and users can opt into the legacy document modes with their local Compatibility View List.
- No, we do not have different document mode support on immersive and desktop IE.
- Yes, document modes still exist. In IE11 we removed the option in the F12 tools to opt into specific document modes. We've received feedback from some developers that they liked that option as a complement to the tools modern.ie. We're listening and investigating what we can do to act on that feedback. At the same time, we really do believe that the best way to reliably test sites on older versions of IE is to actually test on those older versions of IE--either on a physical machine or on a virtual machine.
Anonymous
September 19, 2013
@Christian Stockwell [MSFT]: While it is true that using the actual old IE version is more accurate, some companies just don't have the resources to use so many VMs just for this. Switching the browser mode was a quick & dirty solution that was also built in, and could be accessed easily and at any time, to check major issues in rendering. Of course we can still do the same by adding meta lines into our test codes to force older IE modes, but even that is not as fast as the manual switching we had before. On the up side, I can only hope that this means that document modes will be phased out soon; beyond a single "Quirk" mode that other browsers also have.Anonymous
September 19, 2013
@Christian Stockwell [MSFT] > 2) No, all existing document modes are still supported. Why IE11 need or would need to be able to render a webpage in IE7 compatibility rendering mode or in IE8 compatibility rendering mode? Windows XP extended support is supposed to end on April 8th 2014. Gérard TalbotAnonymous
September 19, 2013
@pmbAustin a quick recap since you seemed to miss this the last time it was posted. "You're not HELPING anything. You're just complaining/bashing." - BINGO!!! Get that man a prize! This is exactly why this is working! and exactly why it is happening on every blog post because it is finally getting attention and at some point Microsoft is going to take 2 minutes and fix the bug! It will take more time to brew a cup of coffee than to fix this bug yet it has taken years for Microsoft to admit to the bug and "semi"-commit to fixing it! When the bug is finally fixed, we will gladly accept your thanks pmbAustin for making the IE Blog a better, usable place! But for now we have to recap. WHY THE **** SHOULD I HAVE TO LOG IN TO USE A PUBLIC BLOG?! WHY THE **** SHOULD A BLOG REQUIRE ME TO SIGN IN TO ****ING WORK? WHY THE **** HASN'T MICROSOFT FIXED THE ISSUE?! WHY THE **** HASN'T COMMUNITY SERVER FIXED THE ISSUE?! WHY THE **** SINCE MICROSOFT KNOWS THIS ISSUE EXISTS (AS DOES pmbAustin) DO THEY NOT POST IN A MASSIVE BRIGHT BOLD MESSAGE AT THE TOP OF THE COMMENT FORM STATING THAT:
***** BEWARE THIS COMMENT FORM WILL LOSE YOUR POST IF YOU DO NOT LOG IN!!!! **** ***** WE ARE SORRY BUT WE HAVE YET TO FIGURE OUT WEB FORMS ****
Seriously this is like a 5+ year old bug! Microsoft knows about it, every frequent commenter on this blog knows about it!, this bug on the IE Blog has been blogged about on OTHER BLOGS (that's how well known it is!), Community Server knows about this bug! The solution to fix the bug has been posted ON THE BLOG by dozens of readers! @MICROSOFT @Wilson Guo [MSFT], @Michael Patten [MSFT], @PJ Hough [MSFT], @Sandeep Singhal [MSFT], @Rob Mauceri [MSFT], @Paula Chuchro [MSFT], @Ceri Gallacher [MSFT], @Dinesh Chandnani [MSFT], @Matt Gradwohl [MSFT], @Rajkumar Mohanram [MSFT], @Dean Hachamovitch [MSFT], @Kevin Miller [MSFT], @Jatinder Mann [MSFT] WHO THE **** has the FTP password for this site and WHY THE **** have they not fixed it already!?!? Somebody has to be responsible for this blog and that person needs to stand up and do something to fix it! This is the only blog I know of that just-plain-doesn't-and-never-has-worked!
Anonymous
September 19, 2013
@Gerard: We'd love to be able to reduce the dependency on older document modes. It takes a lot of engineering effort to make sure that those older modes continue to work. At the same time, we think that it's even more important that customers continue to upgrade. Nobody wins if IE users decide to stay on older versions of Windows/IE because their favorite sites break or because their companies can't absorb the cost of upgrading all of their old intranet sites to newer modes. We'll be happy to phase out support for that legacy code when we are able, but until then we will work as hard as we can to ensure that everyone has great reasons to upgrade to the latest version of IE and can do so with confidence that their existing sites will continue to work.Anonymous
September 19, 2013
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September 19, 2013
IE11 and I still can't read the text on a page.Anonymous
September 19, 2013
Can you just remove IE7 & IE8 from the Internet, that would be far more better than releasing IE11.Anonymous
September 20, 2013
Hadn't signed in when I posted this earlier - will IE11 allow Win7 shops to manage GPPrefs without an 8 machine to do it?Anonymous
September 20, 2013
Does UI Responsiveness tool work in this preview? I can't seem to use it. I can click the Start button, but when I click the Stop button, nothing happens.Anonymous
September 20, 2013
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September 20, 2013
@Gerard Talbot you've very nicely summed up all the issues that have been troubling users of this blog and connect since they started. I only hope that there is someone at microsoft that is actually reading these comments with enough merit to get to the root of these issues and resolve them. Until that time this blog continues to be the laughing stock of the Internet - the classic punchline when discussing any online project. Dev 1: "Hey man this Innotrode Website is horrible just look at the tacky icons!" Dev 2: "Well at least it isn't as bad as the IE Blog or Connect! - At least our CMS actually works!" I'm a betting man. My money says nothing happens to fix this blog until 2015 after the current "owners" have received their #E0427F'sAnonymous
September 21, 2013
GOOD!Anonymous
September 21, 2013
TKS!Anonymous
September 21, 2013
@William > I only hope that there is someone at microsoft that is actually reading these comments EricLaw [ex-MSFT] In case it's not blatantly obvious, comments here are not being read anymore. blogs.msdn.com/.../april-2013-internet-explorer-updates.aspx
This is another problem on top of all others mentioned. There is no sure way to find and communicate with the Microsoft-Responsible person in charge of those issues with the IE blog or with the connect IE beta feedback. And so, those problems (explained, repeated by dozens of commenters during years) linger on and on and on... "If you want us to take you seriously, then you have to start behaving seriously." Alphonso, August 10th 2006 blogs.msdn.com/.../694584.aspx > My money says nothing happens to fix this blog until 2015 I personally sent an email to Travis Leithead explaining why I would not participate in the IE9 beta feedback on April 14th 2009: " I no longer participate in IE beta feedback (...) I do not like the way the IE beta feedback works and made several constructive suggestions; some were obvious and also backed by others or made by others in IE blog. " Gérard Talbot
Anonymous
September 22, 2013
@Gérard Talbot: rather than focusing on something a possibly bitter ex-MSFT guy said earlier this year, just look up, and you'll realize the MSFT peeps have been answering people lately (and therefore read the comments, if I may make such a bold assumption).Anonymous
September 22, 2013
Installed this preview on windows 7. It was supposed to bring WebGL but Google maps still not working with Google earth module. It says my browser does not support WebGL. What's wrong here?Anonymous
September 23, 2013
come on!Anonymous
September 23, 2013
Can you comment on support WebM in IE 11? It seems there was a plug-in for IE 9 and nothing since.Anonymous
September 23, 2013
@BlindProgrammer: We do thank you for your feedback and acknowledge that there is much more to be done to provide full accessibility support throughout the F12 toolset. We are actively looking into the issues you raised. We do have some keyboard shortcuts you might not be aware of that could help: CTRL+ALT+B to take you to the breakpoints, CTRL+ALT+C to go to the call stacks, and CTRL+ALT+W to go to the watches. Please let us know if these help! Some additional changes we are working on include: • Debugger editor improvements for character-by-character and text selection reading • Notification banner exposed to screen readers • Additional shortcut CTRL+F12 to give the tools focus when pinned to IE Thanks again for helping us create better tools! I would like to discuss your feedback further, so if you wouldn’t mind, could you please send me your contact information via blogs.msdn.com/.../contact.aspxAnonymous
September 23, 2013
@Grumpy User - This only happens when you install a certain edition of Internet Explorer. This edition is provided when you keep "I would also like Bing and MSN defaults" ticked in the download page - windows.microsoft.com/.../download-ie Sneaky, yes - but avoidable. ;)Anonymous
September 23, 2013
Very good!Anonymous
September 23, 2013
@Jason Barile [MSFT], thank you for responding. FINALLY, I know your name -- the person taking about IE shortcuts!! :-) Please consider these stale requests. connect.microsoft.com/.../paste-and-go-on-the-address-bar connect.microsoft.com/.../one-missing-and-another-poorly-implemented-shortcut All non-IE browsers support it. these may not be showstopper but merely a matter of binding keys and buttons with event handlers. So why not just bake them in IE too? Admittedly, this is a minor request compared to more important issue in your backlog. But conventionally speaking, what is the life span of a minor stuff in IE team's book? A decade? Please discuss with the sleeping bosses so we can enjoy happy browsing with IE for life! Thanks 8-)Anonymous
September 23, 2013
I'd like to report a bug in IE11 Release Preview (can't report it on Connect for some reason, it doesn't want to process my details form): The program crashes (appcrash) on http://forums.eidosgames.com/ website and keeps on recovering the page. It doesn't crash only if the website is viewed in compatibility mode (regardless whether extended protected mode is enabled or not). Tested on Win7 x64. I'm not exactly sure if it's something to do with the browser, or Eidos page, but better to report this kind of stuff before the release.Anonymous
September 23, 2013
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September 24, 2013
Am I missing something or is the copy/paste function gone from the Debug console. I can't figure out how to Copy a variable name into the watch window?Anonymous
September 24, 2013
@Jason Barile [MSFT] Thanks so much for your response and the fact that you are trying to improve the situation. I really appreciate it! I have provided my contact information via the contact form.Anonymous
September 24, 2013
Feature request, Dictionary Manager: connect.microsoft.com/.../ie10-spell-check Please implement a webpage accessible at "about:dictionary", where we can upload cvs, excel and other known dictionary formats in addition to manage individual entries and multi-select, multi-paste ability. That task can be carried out with edge version of PowerShell natively and since the edge version of IE runs on version having latest POSH, please implement the dictionary manager with PowerShell and Office teams. Thanks.Anonymous
September 24, 2013
IE11 IS NOT AS FAST AND STABLE AS FIREFOX ver 24 and 25... MAKE SURE TO FIX IE 11 SO IT WILL BE MORE FAST AND STABLE THEN FIREFOX AND GOOGLE CHROOMEAnonymous
September 24, 2013
IE11 is faster than FF 24 and 25Anonymous
September 25, 2013
I'm very happy to see IE getting faster and more standards-compliant! Is there a list of specific bugs/issues fixed in IE11 that normal folk can get to? I'm looking for confirmation of a bug fix of a very specific issue (event listeners getting wonky from anchor tags in very specific situations, see e.g. github.com/.../733). Seems broken in IE9 and 10, but fixed in IE11, but I'd be interested to see it actually acknowledged somewhere. :)Anonymous
September 25, 2013
@Robert, it could be part of making the browser standard compliant, self-realization OR someone has reported the issue on Connect. Its not clear. But at our part. the right thing to do is to post a bug report for reference. If its a duplicate of some other issue, they will let you know. One thing is unclear so far. IE10 and 11 has "auto upgrading to newer version" feature like FF and Chrome, visible in About window (Alt+X + A). What is the use of that feature, if their process of delivering updates are same? That is: the minor updates from Windows Updates are only related to security and stability and major update (next version) arrives with newer version of Windows... after an year or so! Why can't they get independent and focus on a feature, cook it, deliver it via automatic update and move on to next. See how Mozilla delivers newer version of Firefox seamlessly after few months.. without restarting your computer. They have a public roadmap and they stick to it. Which means WebGL 1.0 will arrive with Windows 9, IE12? For now , we are supposed to deliver backward compatible version of WebGL. One for WebGL 0.9 and other for edge version.. connect.microsoft.com/.../nokia-here-maps-reporting-webgl-issues Why can't all Microsoft teams prefer to take the lead like JavaScript team did... as opposed to being underdog!Anonymous
September 26, 2013
hahahahahahahahahahahaha.... thanks for this....Anonymous
September 26, 2013
I'd be happy to try it out. But only if document modes are back. In the previous preview, they went missing completely. "IE11" was the only option, but it remained a dropdown to choose from, which let me to believe it must be a mistake by Microsoft. That can happen. But in MSIE's case, document/browser modes are vital in the development process, and while relying on virtual machines is fine for a testing phase, it's impractical while developing. I'll see where this goes, but as you can understand, I'm reluctant to installed this new preview. Especially since it replaces IE10 (which is another thing that Microsoft has never fixed: running IE's side-by-side or in portable mode, like all other browsers can).Anonymous
September 27, 2013
@Martin Saly: Thanks for your feedback. We are looking at adding back the document mode selector in F12 for the final IE11 release.Anonymous
September 27, 2013
A little update on the Ebay 100% cpu usage bug... it seems it is caused by old versions of Jquery used on ebay, that can't deal with the user agent sniffing. When using the IE10 useragent, it runs fine.Anonymous
September 28, 2013
Gmail is completely broken for me now in the Release. It would hang on the loading bar when signing in on the preview, I would have to refresh to get it to load properly. Now it either hangs or doesn't display the CSS correctly. UPDATE: Switching off and back on MS Compatibility list seems to of fixed it.Anonymous
September 28, 2013
I love ie11. the others were so slow sometimes so I started using firefox but ie finally brought itself backAnonymous
September 30, 2013
Well everytime i try to use the developer toolbar when IE11 its attached to VS2012 i get the famous bluescreen!! I do hope this will be resolved in the release version, that is if Microsoft knows about it.Anonymous
September 30, 2013
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October 01, 2013
It might be as fast as other browsers, but due to worst font rendering you can find, IE11 has been disabled through "Turn Windows Features On and Off"Anonymous
October 03, 2013
just a great innovative and awesome!