When Windows 10 debuts later this year, it will include a new Web browser called Spartan. Spartan represents Microsoft’s efforts to create a streamlined browser from scratch, with a new rendering engine that’s built for the modern Web. While the Spartan app and interface are still absent from the latest Windows 10 Technical Preview build, here’s how you can get a taste of the new Spartan Edge rendering engine right from within Internet Explorer 11.
With major improvements in speed and stability, many Windows users are switching back to Internet Explorer. If you’ve spent the last few years running a browser like Chrome or Firefox, we show you how you can import your bookmarks into IE11 when you’re ready to switch.
Internet Explorer 11 suggests popular URLs in the address bar. But these suggestions are sometimes irrelevant and simply get in the way of the more useful Google or Bing search suggestions. Here’s how to disable suggested URLs in IE11.
Internet Explorer’s Metro View is a fast and beautiful way to browse the Web, but only with pages that are formatted to fit the browser’s wide screen experience. For sites that aren’t, avoid the wasted white space by using the new Reading View to automatically format article text and graphics like a native app.
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Those running the Windows 8.1 Preview have already gotten a taste of Internet Explorer 11, but today Microsoft extended the privilege to Windows 7 users. The Developer Preview of Redmond’s next major browser update brings significantly improved rendering, up to 50 percent faster JavaScript performance than its primary competitor, Google Chrome, better standards support, and new WebGL support. As noted by Microsoft journalist Paul Thurrott, the company didn’t bring all of the browser’s features from Windows 8.1 to Windows 7,…