IE9 RC1 out now!

Good info. Thanks JRViejo....

 

Thanks JRViejo for info I have noticed this behavior too.

 

2 milion downloads of IE9 RC1.

http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/...t-explorer-9-rc-hits-2-million-downloads.aspx

Congratulations Microsoft

 

http://www.ghacks.net/2011/02/16/in...x-filtering-fix-flash-java-and-other-plugins/
but this still not working for me..lol

 

IE9 RC1

When IE9 will be officially released, I will update IE (as part of Windows 7).
However, IE will not be my primary browser.
IE9 and Firefox 4

 

Hahahaha nice comparison

 

Based on http://caniuse.com/

 

Is there any comparison of ff4 and chrome 9/10/11 ?

 

You can do it as follows:

 

Re: IE9 RC1

More whine from Mozilla, my favourite comment:

Also highlighting:

I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that no one has heard of caniuse before? Or maybe that html5test has been discredited many times? Or maybe that he thinks WebGL and WebWorkers is a critical thing it should have right now? Or maybe that he thinks Mozilla can compare it's "browser acceleration" on XP against the FULL acceleration IE9 offers on 7?

Sounds like he is 'in the know'

Source:
http://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-employee-ie9-is-not-a-modern-browser

Also at the end of the day it comes down to a few set things:
Speed
Security
Simplicity

All 3 of which IE9 is better at than Firefox 4, which is slower, lacks a sandbox/protected mode, SmartScreen > Google's screening (used in Firefox), and is still holding on tight to that useless search box whilst taking up more screen space.

 

Re: IE9 RC1

IE should always have been better considering it's on just one platform (with all the inside information handy) and others have to (or choose to) strive to work on multiple operating systems.

The "useless search box ... taking up more screen space" can be removed by a right-click to bring up a Customize window and then dragging at least in Fx 4 beta.

 

Re: IE9 RC1

This is true, the last time I considered IE was um, 10+ years ago.

Which gives you a bigger address bar, wow... I like the idea of tabs next to the address bar, why have a gigantic address bar?

What does that lead onto, more verticle reading space for the webpage you're on.

 

Re: IE9 RC1

Your issue was the presence of the search bar. It can be removed.

The gigantic address bar will shrink to accommodate add-ons or whatever bells and whistles users want. Since I mostly use the keyboard and a few tabs at a time, it would be nice if the tab bar and the address bar were on the same strip. Right now, my Fx "chrome" takes up two rows.

 

Well, you have heard of it now...

 

Yesterday I got a BSOD while pc was idling. At that time, my desktop only having IE9 RC and Microsoft outlook running.

I think that IE9 RC having huge memory leak. So I did a screenshot of IE process today. What do you guys think about this?

http://i51.tinypic.com/2ilbtbk.jpg

 

Very high memory usage is a known problem, see posts 36 and 40 above. It has also been reported in other forums.

In my case, with 10 tabs open, memory usage increases permanently and in 4-5 hours it reaches 50% (2 GB) of RAM and also 50% (500 MB) of graphics card memory. I also notice a high CPU and GPU usage.

I tried briefly the 64 bit version without Flash, I did not notice any memory problem.

 

The 'memory leak' if it is one is obviously a flash issue - an issue I've yet to experience using 32bit IE9 and the latest 10.2 flash.

 

I checked again the memory use in 32 bit version with Flash disabled -- the problem disappears. This is Flash 10.2.152.26. Chrome is using 10.2.154.12.

 

This is the first genuinely good IE in, like, ever!
I really don't recognize Microsoft anymore...in a positive way, of course!
I guess the benefits of competition have finally started to show.

 

These are the official versions: -http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

In case you were wondering why they were different.

 

The version of IE above is 32 bit. I want to have a look with firefox so I installed firefox 4 beta 11 x86 and opening 10 tab, left for 2 hours and when i come back, firefox process occupied memory nearly the same amount with IE9 RC. So I think may be you right Robin A, the problem possible come from adobe flash 10.2.152.26.

http://i55.tinypic.com/2v3hlxz.png

 

Testing on Google's Sputnik "JavaScript Conformance - version 2" test gives the following results:

Chrome 10.0.648.82 dev: Failed 130
Firefox nightly 2011-02-18: Failed 178
IE9 RC1: Failed 67
Opera 11.10: Kept freezing at test 256 and required a "pause" then "play" to resume the test, then froze at test 5245 and a pause play would not unfreeze it, ended at 99% with 74 failed. Note: I originally tried Opera 11.01 and had the freezing on both those tests so I figured I'd try 11.10, no change whatsoever.

Speed:
Chrome: 1 minute 3 seconds to finish
Firefox: 1 minute 58 seconds to finish
IE9: 1 minute 35 seconds to finish
Opera: 2 minutes 7 seconds to get to 99%

Failing 1 test in this case will award a 1 second penalty, each second shall be 1 point, lowest points is best:

IE9: 162
Chrome: 193
Opera: 201
Firefox: 296

Test conducted on Windows 7.