Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2

Installable | 18 MB | Windows7

IE10 is the next generation Internet Explorer version and Microsoft had released the first platform preview back in April 2011. Today we have the second platform preview and is available for download. IE10 Platform Preview 2 has the same HTML5 engine seen in the recent public “Windows 8” demos. With this update, IE10 continues to deliver support for site-ready HTML5 technologies as well as improving performance.

How to Clear Cookies for a Particular Domain in Microsoft IE9

Internet Explorer 9 version released by Microsoft last week has received positive reviews among technology blogs and it comes with lots of new features. One of the features useful for developers if clearing cache for a particular domain. Generally when you clear cache in web browsers, the entire cache is deleted, but with IE9 developer tools, you can delete the cache for the particular domain only and this is useful for developers.

To clear cache of any domain, select the developer tools (F12) or use the tools menu. This will open the developer tools for the domain you have currently selected. Under the cache menu, you can see the option “Clear cookies for this domain”.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Beta

Web browsing is the No. 1 thing people do on their Windows-based PC, and as such, they increasingly expect the same experience they associate with their PC applications from their favorite Web-based e-mail service, photo site or social network site. This kind of immersive experience does not occur on the Web today, and using a browser is often associated with limited performance and interactivity. Microsoft developed Windows Internet Explorer 9 to help change this.

Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 5

Check out the new developer capabilities of Internet Explorer 9.

Microsoft originally unveiled Internet Explorer 9 at PDC 2009. IE 9 will take advantage of the power of the GPU for all page rendering and developers can exploit this using CSS, DHTML and java script. A new JS engine (codenamed Chakra) will also be built into Internet Explorer 9 with greater interoperability and standards support all round. Features such as rounded corner CSS support will be built in. In January, Microsoft is planning to enhance tabbed browsing in IE9. According to a software patent, the Quick Tabs feature in Internet Explorer is likely to be enhanced with better functionality and greater tab management options.

How to Turn On InPrivate Filtering in IE8

Just like other web browsers, Internet Explorer 8 also features the private browsing mode. InPrivate Browsing prevents Internet Explorer from storing data about your browsing session. You can also enable InPrivate Filtering which helps prevent website content providers from collecting information about sites you visit. Websites now contain ads and lots of third party tools which collect information about the sites you visit. With filtering you can prevent this from happening.

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Internet Explorer 9 Logo Released, Beta on September 15

Microsoft has already released 4 versions of platform preview of upcoming Internet Explorer 9 web browser which comes with all the latest standards. Microsoft has now released the new logo of Internet Explorer 9, the logo looks refreshing with a new look ‘e’, which has been the default look of IE over the years. The new IE9 logo was unveiled along with the Microsoft’s heads-up for the upcoming launch event for the Beta development milestone which is slated for September 15.

IE9 comes with powerful new hardware acceleration and also supports all the latest web standards.

Users will be able to download the beta version of IE9 on September 15th.

More information available here.