Internet Explorer is a good internet browser, and Microsoft’s newer product, Microsoft Edge, is also very reliable. In addition, there are tutorials and user forums to also help answer your questions. Its online knowledgebase is searchable and very thorough in answering questions. In fact, it is one of the few browsers we tested that has telephone support. If you have the same Microsoft browser installed on both your mobile device and computer, your bookmarks, search history and browser settings sync across both devices so you can always access them. While testing internet browsers on our desktop computers, we found that there were some sites that had features, such as video feeds, that didn’t work with Internet Explorer, and we were prompted to install and use Microsoft Edge to view them. Even then, Microsoft suggests you use ActiveX controls to continue using Internet Explorer on your smartphone because not all apps have been optimized to work with Edge. Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge work on mobile devices, but Edge only works with cell phones that run the Windows 10 operating system. Microsoft made it easier to find and enable these settings in Edge than in Internet Explorer. In addition, you can use a privacy browser, which makes it harder to trace your online activity back to you and your device. You can enable tools that block cookies and erase your browser history so it can’t be swiped by spyware. Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge have good security features that protect you against some phishing schemes and malware. When typing a web address into the URL bar, both browsers auto fill based on the sites you’ve visited, and they also provide some search suggestions. That way, you don’t have to click through your list of bookmarked sites or type in a URL. In both browsers, you can add icons to the toolbar that link to popular and frequently visited websites, or you can add them to the homepage. Microsoft Edge incorporates a lot of the features found in Internet Explorer, such as tabbed browsing and tab organizing. Patches and updates are continually available, but you won’t see any new tools, features or technology developed for Internet Explorer.īoth Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge have clean interfaces, and they aren’t too difficult to navigate. However, since Edge is only compatible with Windows 10 and several websites and applications are not optimized for it yet, the company continues to maintain Internet Explorer for now. Microsoft isn’t releasing new versions of Internet Explorer, opting instead to focus development efforts on Edge.

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