IE9 is also making efforts to thwart the current bête noir of web users: behavioural advertising. Microsoft has sensibly included an option to drop the tabs onto a separate row beneath the address bar, but it’s hard to see why it’s resisted the current vogue of placing tabs at the top of the browser window, like Firefox 4 and Chrome. The browser tabs are squashed in to the right of the address bar: if you have any more than three or four open simultaneously they begin to squash together to the point where the tab titles become unreadable. If anything, the default IE9 layout is too austere. Gone are the multiple taskbars festooned with icons and nary-used features: all that’s on display when you first fire up the browser are the back/forward buttons, address bar, browser tabs and a trio of small buttons for your chosen homepage, favourites and advanced menu options. The first thing that strikes you about IE9 is the radical interface overhaul. It remains the world’s most used browser, but for how long? And can Internet Explorer 9 do anything to reverse that downward trend? User interface For the past five years, Microsoft’s browser has been in something of a tailspin, bleeding market share to Firefox and now Chrome. The days when Internet Explorer was so dominant that Microsoft could practically dictate web standards are thankfully long past.
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