The newly launched browser plug-in from Yahoo, called Yahoo Axis, was first released to the public late on Wednesday night to the surprise of many people. Now there"s word that Microsoft"s Internet Explorer 9 browser is already warning users that installing the Yahoo Axis plug-in will slow down the web browser"s start up time.
Computerworld reports that, according to a message generated by the IE9 Add-on Performance Adviser, installing and using Yahoo Axis will slow down the launching of IE9 by 0.07 seconds. The Add-on Performance Adviser has been a feature in IE9 since its launch in March 2011.
Yahoo launched the Axis add-on, which is supposed to help with Internet searches, for IE9 as well as Apple"s Safari, Google"s Chrome and Mozilla"s Firefox web browsers on the Windows and Mac platforms. A separate app was released for iOS devices.
The add-on has already had a run-in with Chrome. The first version for Google"s browser had an exploit bug that that allowed anyone to digitally sign extensions in Yahoo"s name. Yahoo has since released a new version of Axis for Chrome that fixes this exploit.
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