Review of Internet Explorer 9 Beta

[aviv00]

IE9 beta is better then IE8
like windows 7 beta is better then vista 🙂

i would recommend to replace the old shi77y ie8 to everyone

@halladayrules even with those flaws u found
i dont use it so often anyway

nice review very informative

btw ie9 is still slow with bloat flash running

[halladayrules]

@aviv00 wrote:

IE9 beta is better then IE8
like windows 7 beta is better then vista 🙂

i would recommend to replace the old shi77y ie8 to everyone

@halladayrules even with those flaws u found
i dont use it so often anyway

nice review very informative

btw ie9 is still slow with bloat flash running

Thank you aviv00. I’m still optimistic about Microsoft will reduce the initial load delay when they release the final product hopefully toward the end of this year or early 2011. My primary browser is Chromium/Chrome, but I still need to use IE for some stuff because compatibility is so high. For example I watch online streams of my baseball game and the embedded player will only run in IE/Firefox. Since I am not a fan of Firefox I just stick with IE. For the most part I don’t have any troubles with IE crashing, atleast for me. Microsoft still needs to pass the Acid3 test. Their beta version failed that. Microsoft has been touting forever about how their acid3 tests have improved. A 99/100 is still failing Microsoft! You only pass if you get a 100. Funny how they are gloating about their reduced failures. It’s like an elementary kid saying… MOM! I IMPROVED MY F+ to a F -!! “Horray, son! Keep working harder.” Don’t worry Mom, if I put my mind to it I can achieve a D!

[aviv00]

yea its must be problem internal in initial load delay
i tested it in ssd

[hoak]

Overall I’m pleased too, though I don’t like the way the Favorites pop-up on the right but are then pinned on the left; in fact I haven’t liked the Favorites behavior since IE8, which just got worse with 9. I also wish Microsoft would re-unify it’s UI design scheme, the OS it’s applications and utilities looks like a bad science project run by a schizophrenic committee and handed off to their kids to finish.

I can’t remember her name but the woman originally behind the native Windows 9x/NT UI who I believe drew on or was also involved inTaligent composed brilliant design guidelines — and for a while at least everything Microsoft had a very consistent, efficient and congruent ‘form that follows function‘ approach to design that was uniform across everything the product line (no less the OS itself), and a lot of popular applications as well.

Now with the advent of Vista, Windows 7, and the Server 2008/R — regardless of whether you use the Theme overlay system or not; I count more then fifteen completely different design motifs that have little in common other then they ship on the same product; which I think is very warty…

😐

[144Floppy]

The installation was smooth on my R2 machine except that you need to reboot to finish the installation

I like the GPU acceleration but it is only a matter of time before the other browser has it as well. When all browser has GPU acceleration then will the web designers take advantage of it and it will end with that you need a top-of-the-line graphic card only to surf the web…

The only problem I had so far is that it couldn’t import my firefox bookmarks direct, I needed to export them and then import them, well it is a beta…

[halladayrules]

@144Floppy wrote:

The installation was smooth on my R2 machine except that you need to reboot to finish the installation

I like the GPU acceleration but it is only a matter of time before the other browser has it as well. When all browser has GPU acceleration then will the web designers take advantage of it and it will end with that you need a top-of-the-line graphic card only to surf the web…

The only problem I had so far is that it couldn’t import my firefox bookmarks direct, I needed to export them and then import them, well it is a beta…

Google Chromium 7 has GPU acceleration and can achieve over 30FPS on the FishIE tank on the Microsoft website. I was able to achieve 7 FPS higher using IE9 beta. On top of that Firefox 4 beta 5 was able to surpass IE9 by 2 FPS.

[germanuser]

U can check the IE9 Preview Graphicsacc. here..

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/performance/fishIE%20tank/default.html

greetz

[Author]

Posts