Internet Explorer 11 To Support Swiping

By | March 29, 2013


Internet Explorer 11 To Support Swiping

From Immersive to Desktop.

As more and more people get their hands on the recently leaked build of Windows 8 (codenamed Blue), Rafael Rivera from WithinWindows has discovered a neat hidden feature, which brings IE10 Immersive (aka Metro) swipe gesture to IE11 Desktop.

What is this swipe functionality all about? It’s simple: you can now swipe horizontally to move back and forth between your browsing history, which sure is a welcome change although we are not sure why would anyone use IE11 Dekstop on their touch PC or a Tablet. While it’s not enabled by default yet, head over to

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DesktopSwipe and set the Enabled value to 1.

[Via: WinSupersite]


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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. MacVities says:

    Of course IE11 will be a Windows8 only release, so die along with Windows8…..

  2. IE User says:

    Awwsome!! This is great.

  3. fontproblems says:

    IE 10 is fast but fonts sucks even with cleartype on, both IE 9 had it now IE 10 :(, does anybody know a fix ? win 7, 64 bit resolution 1920 1080