Internet Explorer 12 Is a Blend of Chrome and Firefox

The next edition of Microsoft's flagship browser is under construction and will be introduced alongside of Windows 9/Threshold next year. What has been shown so far in previews, IE 12 looks to be some sort of cross between Chrome and Firefox. When you're number one, you can afford to borrow from numbers two and three. For starters, it's flat, and looks like a cross between Chrome and Firefox. The tabs for each webpage are rectangles at the top and start on the far left of the window. In IE11, the URL bar is on the same horizontal plane as the tabs, in IE12 (or whatever they call the next version) the tabs are on top of the URL bar.