Internet Explorer is Back

[Crescent Seal]

After firefox and chrome came out I doubt anyone used IE. But now IE 9 beta is out and its amazing. Its actually faster than chrome and more appealing to the eye.

first take this test with your current browser:

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/PsychedelicBrowsing/Default.html

now download IE9 beta from here:

http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/

now retake the test, IE9 makes more use of your graphics card!!

k done sounding like an infomercial, sukdik2 if cud

[kthx]

Yeah and Windows vista is the best operating system ever, we pull people into tents and show them how it holds their pictures.

[Crescent Seal]

Yeah and Windows vista is the best operating system ever, we pull people into tents and show them how it holds their pictures.

Yeah vista was a huge let down, but they made it up with windows 7. Microsoft finally has the right idea tho. My friend showed me this and i was really skeptical but i tried it and so far its worked better than firefox or chrome. Not to mention its just the beta, so imagine when it actually comes out.

[Jason]

chrome does hardware acceleration too

you just have to use a command param on the dev version to enable it, for the time being

i will never, ever, in a billion years touch ie again

piece of utter shit

[Crescent Seal]

LOL i was thinking the same thing until my friend forced me....if you try it you wont turn back to chrome guaranteed

[Ganon-Knight]

This would be cool if it weren't obviously done by Microsoft. It was made to show off what IE9 can do, so obviously its gonna make the other browsers look inferior.




I won't deny that IE9 is a big step in the right direction, though. I just wouldn't use a test with clear Microsoft propaganda in it to be the judge of that.

http://www.acidtests.org/

[project dragon]

I wouldn't mind testing it out, but currently my laptop still runs XP so no go for me. : |

[kthx]

http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/03/internet-explorer-9-shows-up-faster-but-still-lacking/

Was about to talk about its lack of availability for XP which I don't have.

[Crescent Seal]

I won't deny that IE9 is a big step in the right direction, though. I just wouldn't use a test with clear Microsoft propaganda in it to be the judge of that.

http://www.acidtests.org/

yea its definetly propaganda to make it look better and i was thinking the same thing, but it still doesnt change the fact that its better than chrome/firefox even in its beta version

and true it wont work for xp users, which makes sense since they want people to upgrade to windows 7

[kthx]

They want people to spend money on their products who 99% of the population has no clue as to why its supposed to be better.

[project dragon]

You can say that about most things

[Summa]

tried it, seems too candied; as does chrome.

also eats more cpu than firefox and lacks add-ons that make firefox superior.

i have nothin against microsoft, but they are far behind on the whole internet browser thing

[curse]

tried it, seems too candied; as does chrome.

also eats more cpu than firefox and lacks add-ons that make firefox superior.

???? you must have a shitty processor then...... :P

allow urself 2 get a intel core 2010 processor such as i3,i5, or i7.

[D1st0rt]

vista was not originally planned to be released, it's just when ballmer took over he wanted an OS release to coincide so he pushed out the progress they had made on 7

longhorn is and has always been 7

[curse]

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/internet-explorer-9-beta-review-microsoft-reinvents-the-browser/2430?tag=mantle_skin;content