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Internet Explorer 9 release candidate has all the features
FASTER than its beta version by 35 per cent is one of Microsoft's big selling points for its Internet Explorer 9 release candidate that it's making available at 5pm today.
The speed increase claim is based on the webkit sunspider javascript benchmark. With that benchmark the Vole is claiming that IE9 is faster than any other browser currently available. Some of that speed comes from hardware acceleration of video and graphics rendering on the display.
Along with this allegedly super speedy display capability, Internet Exploder 9 comes with tracking protection, semantic tagging and support for VP8 as well as H.264 video. With tracking protection you can select parts of websites to add to an anti-tracking list. The browser comes with four ready made anti-tracking lists of blocked websites and content, and users can also create their own.
Microsoft uses what it refers to as the top 1,000 websites to get what it considers to be a picture of the Internet as a whole. However The INQUIRER thinks that the vast majority of websites that don't quite work perfectly are probably a better representation. Surely the top 1,000 websites are well resourced corporate sites, which indicates who Microsoft is really interested in as users of IE9.
Microsoft told The INQUIRER, "the speed game never stops", so we're expecting a major update before the final release.
The IE9 beta had 25 million downloads so Microsoft is expecting big things for its release candidate. µ
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I'm going to update from beta as soon as I get home. Beta was a good start but I suffer from a rendering bug where all images wil stop displaying and I have to close everything and reopen IE9 Beta. SOmetimes it works sometimes no. So if they fixed that one, I'll be ever happy. Facebook and other sites do not work correctly, so I have to use firefox or Chrome to do other tasks. But it was a beta so I'm not complaining, just stting the facts.
@Oliver - yes it really is a shame that MS cut off XP users. I still have a few XP machines at home. They are seriously cuttig off adoption too. Lol, yes! - a new version of chrome every time I open it.
I don't know if the browser numbers are too accurate. I use all 3 for different things.
Anyhow.. looking forward to a better version.
"The speed increase claim is based on the webkit sunspider javascript benchmark."
Aha, I see they found more "dead code" in the benchmark.
Seriously, stop trying Microsoft. Just skip the whole think and say it finished in 0ms. The fanboys will be stunned and everyone else just keeps not giving a shit.
Running it now, seems pretty tidy.
In fact...as long as it remains reliable with the mental amount of tabs I use, there would be no reason to go back to opera 11. Definately appear to be scenarios where from fresh IE9 appears to load things faster.
It doesn't run on XP right?
I won't install another resource hog on any of my laptops.
Chrome is the browser for me, despite the fact that it installs a new version everyday. Not good if you have metered internet though.
So IE9, no thank you.