Google has commented on our IE8 Beta 1 improvements, and we’ve made IE8 even faster since then. Some of the tests we have done show pure JScript performance improvements up to 2.5 times. We also measured the performance gains on common Gmail operations, like loading the inbox (34%), opening a conversation (45%) and opening a thread (27%) compared to IE7. Thus far, tweaks to the JScript engine have contributed to improve IE8’s performance on the SunSpider benchmarking suite by 400% compared to IE7.The second area in which we are invested heavily in IE8 is in improvements to our memory usage. To date we have fixed just under 400 separate memory leaks in Internet Explorer. For users, these changes reduce the amount of memory consumed by IE, improve our startup times, speed up navigating between pages, and help IE remain stable for longer periods of time. As we started building IE8 it was clear that we could do more to take advantage of the increasing prevalence of high bandwidth connections. Two key improvements we made with IE8 were to unblock downloads in the presence of external scripts and to increase the number of parallel connections per server that we support.
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IE8 is shaping up very well,hope they incorporate the download manager.
IE8 is shaping up very well,hope they incorporate the download manager.
but, what is the performance boost in comparison with firefox3 ?
IE8 is shaping up very well,hope they incorporate the download manager.
but, what is the performance boost in comparison with firefox3 ?
Firefox 3.1, with TraceMonkey, is getting another huge performance boost...
Yes? or not?
Yes? or not?
The beta has just gone public and the IEBlog is commenting on a post beta build so it's probably too early to tell...
This is good news though - memory leaks in browsers are something I really hate and it's good to know that the JScript engine is being tweaked, with so many 2.0 sites around things have got to improve.
It is the end of August
Even though I'm a huge Firefox fan, I still appreciate knowing that other browsers are out there and giving Mozilla some good competition.
To be honest, if that were the case, the natural psychological response would be "because Firefox doesn't need to bribe you to use it."
IE8 could go open source and Firefox could insert a mandatory ad banner pane and people would just say giving up some screen real estate is worth it to be able to use Firefox. These people are just that 'special'.
The first beta was a bit buggy as image links had their click focus rectangle moved to the left.
The first beta was a bit buggy as image links had their click focus rectangle moved to the left.
And this would be why it is BETA. Beta 1 at that. Things are bond to improve as it goes thru the beta process
Can't wait to get Beta 2 and try out the "porn mode" feature, haha.
like all these things, it will be interesting to see what the real world performance of the browser is.
What features of IE 8 are actually new.. meaning something that doesn't fit the category of "been there, done that".
400 known memory leaks.. yet only posts here at Neowin complained of FF's memory leaks.
Private browsing? So last year.... and now I hear that IE 8 is going to have it's own Bookmark Toolbar?? WOW what a concept that is..
Not trying to stir up too much... which around here, not that hard to do.. all you have to do is sneeze the fact you like something other than Redmond products and your fish bait.. but what is really "NEW" with IE 8? That isn't already available or has been, with either Opera, Firefox.. or even Safari?
Yes, they're playing catchup, yes, they're not being very innovative, but they sat on their arses with IE6 for years and this is the price they have to pay. Give them time to catch up with the competition before you go bashing them for not being innovative enough.
I'd rather have a product that did the same things as everything else, only better, than a product that tried and failed to do something new.
and yes, i'm a firefox user since 1.x and i'm glad about this news about ie8, even FF3 still is a memory hog and CPU cycles eater
but of course in the end about all that matters is the speed of the browser on the pages and if the pages are displayed properly, IE7 is way to slow in javascript, lets see if they improve it at the FF and Safari level
and yes, i'm a firefox user since 1.x and i'm glad about this news about ie8, even FF3 still is a memory hog and CPU cycles eater
but of course in the end about all that matters is the speed of the browser on the pages and if the pages are displayed properly, IE7 is way to slow in javascript, lets see if they improve it at the FF and Safari level
Think about what happens when you open a PDF in FF. The entire browser window freezes the **** up. With IE8, this may not be the case anymore, what with the seperate processes per each tab.
These things would do more for webpage loading than any improvement to the browser.
I welcome any browser speed increase, innovation, competition.
Yes, Internet Explorer 8 has got several things Firefox has not, yes you can add to Firefox with third-party extensions, 98% of users (yes I made that up) would not know how to install an extension.
So not to mention the upcoming TraceMonkey and SqurrielFish Improvement. IE8 is still slow.
Much like Intel like to boost about their IGP getting 2x Faster every generation. 2x Faster is nothing when your Javascript Engine is INCREDIBLY slow to start with.
Anyway it is still in beta and i hope IE8 can further trim the fat, and performance improvement.
Hardcore IE junkies will bring up the age old FF/IE battle saying how IE is better than FF. Whether it is better or not is always up for debate. What is NOT up for debate is that FireFox completely changed the internet browser market in that it forced the Internet Explorer team to get off their asses and make improvements to Internet Explorer.
It is amazing to see the whole change in pace of Internet Explorer development:
Version 6 was released August 2001.
Version 7 was released 5+ years after that in October 2006.
Version 8, which I fully expected to take like 10 years the way Microsoft handled Vista, now looks like it will be released only 2 years after v7.
Also, I know why it takes MS ten years to finish something. Have you ever called customer service? Talk to one person, they don't know answer, transfer you to another, do that 15 times and end up back to the person who originally answer'd the phone. I only imagine they do that with software....here you do it...no you... cause I dont know either.
Missing this until the final build. as for performance did not have time to do anything with it because it messed up my OS and slowed everything to a halt after reboot and first start.
See me blog for details: http://blog.sensenet.hu/post/2008/08/Compa...efield)-31.aspx
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