How to Disable Compatibility Mode in IE9?

Posted by Muhammed Posted on Monday, November 12, 2012

Compatibility mode is a feature in latest version of IE that helps you to view webpages that were designed for previous versions of the browser. Sometimes it can break newer sites that were designed for modern browsers. Hence, here is the tweak for disable it and make sure it only runs for selected sites.

Disable Compatibility Mode in IE9


1. Open Internet Explorer and go to Tools men, then select Compatibility View Settings.

Compatibility View Settings

2. Un check the option “Display all websites in Compatibility View”.

Compatibility View Settings

3. Go to “Add this website” option and enter the website address which you want to run IE in compatibility mode, then click on Add (It helps you to add the older sites which required compatibility feature).

4. Then close the settings window and refresh the page, now older sites that you left in the list will still use compatibility view and newer ones won’t.