Internet Explorer 11 – Enhanced Gateway for Safe Browsing

Internet Explorer 11 is an advanced web browser with commendable features which brings amazing user experience for web surfing. It was launched by Microsoft on 17 October 2013 for Windows 8.1 and 7 November 2013 for Windows 7. Internet Explorer 11 is faster, more clean and trusted from its earlier versions. New interface, new tab page, pinned sites, add-on performance advisory, tracking protection and many other unique features are the core strength of IE 11.

 Some of the prime features are mentioned as below.

• Faster processing – Internet Explorer 11 takes less time for installation and loading pages. It is much faster than its previous versions and do not have requirement to install updates separately.
• Hardware-accelerated graphics capabilities – The hardware accelerated feature offers high quality videos, images, text and graphics for rich experience.
• New Interface – The new interface of IE 11 is much user friendly and flexible. It has combined search and address bar for easy web surfing.
• Tab Management – IE 11 has the new tab management feature in which the most visited or favorite pages are made available to user when a new tab is opened.
• Pin a site- User can pin their favorite site on task bar with this feature. Just drag the site tab to task bar and you can open the site without opening Internet Explorer.
• Integrated with Windows 8.1 – Internet Explorer 11 integrated with windows 8.1 offers features like jump to list of favorite sites, thumbnail preview of sites and icon overlay. It can be added into Windows 7 as well as Windows Server 2008 R2.
• Add-On Performance Advisor – This gives information about the add-ons that are making browser slow and that you need to disable. This helps in increasing the browser speed.
• InPrivate browsing – InPrivate browsing allows stopping the browser to store cookies, user name, password, temporary files, and history. Use safety menu by using “Ctrl+Shift+P” that will launch a new session and when you close the browser it ends the session.

There are also various other features like ActiveX filtering, compatibility view, domain highlighting, Smart Screen filter, Web-focused browsing etc. which have made Internet Explorer 11 a highly popular browser for Internet users. Also in comparison with other browser like Firefox and Chrome Internet explorer 11 have several unique features like hardware acceleration for graphics, add-on advisor, jump list, thumbnail preview, high level protection which makes it superior than its contemporary browsers.