How Would You Change Internet Explorer?

By | March 1, 2011


How Would You Change Internet Explorer?

If you had a chance, how would you change Microsoft Internet Explorer so it would start recovering from the never ending market share decline?


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Vygantas is a former web designer whose projects are used by companies such as AMD, NVIDIA and departed Westood Studios. Being passionate about software, Vygantas began his journalism career back in 2007 when he founded FavBrowser.com. Having said that, he is also an adrenaline junkie who enjoys good books, fitness activities and Forex trading.

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  1. Anonymous says:

    I would like the previous tab look.

    wow i dont know. its hard trying to ask features for microsoft. IE has never been regarded as a good browser until recently

  2. Tux Crazy says:

    Make the homepage the Firefox website. :P Jk Jk. I think that cleaning up the bookmark manager interface and the addons website would be a start.

  3. anon says:

    Putting the tabs on top of the address bar, so that there is more room for people who have a lot of tabs open.

  4. Nom4d3 says:

    – The name;
    – The icon;
    – The backward compatibility;
    – The stupid engineers;

  5. Sirnh1 says:

    Easy, I would buy Opera and completely replace IE with opera and everyone currently working at opera would keep their job…

  6. I would make it’s next version incompatible with those intranet and banking sites which only accept IE as a browser.

    This would solve 90% of the problems but it’ll bring another: nobody will use it anymore. Heh, no biggie…

  7. Pasqualon says:

    I would drop the current engine, backward compatibility, all that Windows integration and twenty years of legacy code and start all over. The browser should be browser and the OS should be only OS. In case of being both it’s better to follow the Chrome’s model: everything running in the browser…

    • Darthdoom34 says:

      I agree that the browser should be removed from the OS, it’s not important and never used by anyone that I know if they have a choice

  8. RamaSubbu_SK says:

    For me IE9 is not right track, they shouldn’t just stop the momentum here. The same level of improvement/dedication should be shown for all future releases.
    IE 9 is really good browser.
    Here is the link on UX experience : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/02/15/user-experiences-listen-learn-refine.aspx

  9. RamaSubbu_SK says:

    For next version, I would expect more standard supports & bit more HTML/XML parsing & JavaScript performance.
    Microsoft can not just drop the backward compatibility, until all the enterprise in US ready to re-invest in their IT to write code for all modern browsers. I expect they will drop the back ward compatibility only on IE10+.

  10. I would do what Netscape did. I would delete everything and start over. Because of that we now have that wonderful Firefox. :)

  11. Doni says:

    IE needs a spell checker

  12. Ben says:

    Extensions! Customizability!