 Short name | IE1 | IE2 | IE3 | IE4 | IE5 | IE6 | IE7 | IE8 | IE9 | IE10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Internet Explorer 1 | Internet Explorer 2 | Internet Explorer 3 | Internet Explorer 4 | Internet Explorer 5 | Internet Explorer 6 | Internet Explorer 7 | Internet Explorer 8 | Internet Explorer 9 | Internet Explorer 10 |
| Release date | Aug. 16th 1995 | Nov. 1st 1995 | Aug. 13th 1996 | Sep. 1st 1997 | Mar. 18th 1999 | Aug. 27th 2001 | Oct. 1st 2006 | Mar. 19th 2009 | Mar. 14th 2011 | 2012 |
| Features | ||||||||||
| SSL Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Cookies support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| VRML support | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| Newsgroups support | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| Favicons support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| FTP support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Full screen mode | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Tab browsing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| RSS Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Private browsing | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Session management | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| Download manager | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| Key user features added | RSS Support Tab browsing PNG alpha transparency Security improvements | Private browsing Accelerators Developer tools Automatic Tab crash recovery | HTML5 CSS3 SVG Better Javascript engine | Better CSS3 support, Spell-checking, Auto-correction | ||||||
| Platforms | ||||||||||
| Windows | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Other | ||||||||||
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