IE9 Will Be Faster and Safer than Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari


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I am going to reserve judgment until ie9 comes out and I use it. Based on what we've seen so far with the platform previews it will be significantly faster than ie8 but not faster than chrome/opera/safari. It may be faster in some areas with its new graphics acceleration though. In real world usage the speed differences aren't really noticeable at all unless you are using super JS heavy web apps. I am more excited to see what they do with IE9's UI.

Seriously, reading some of the replies in this thread; it seems people hate Internet Explorer because it's Internet Explorer. Historically, it hasn't been fantastic, and it has been in more recent years eclipsed by Firefox and Chrome, but IE9 is the fastest and most secure browser there, choosing not to use it because it's IE is just, well, ridiculous. And seriously, stuff like 'hate', for an internet browser? That's some pretty strong emotions there. It's not like IE ran over your dog or something.

Keep an open mind guys.

Its IE guys, why bother! :laugh: :devil:

I am going to reserve judgment until ie9 comes out and I use it. Based on what we've seen so far with the platform previews it will be significantly faster than ie8 but not faster than chrome/opera/safari. It may be In real world usage the speed differences aren't really noticeable at all unless you are using super JS heavy web apps. I am more excited to see what they do with IE9's UI.

Exactly. It really boils down to personal preferences. I use them all, including IE, and they are all basically the same speed overall.

Saying Opera 10.6 if faster than Chrome 6 at this time in what? SunSpider? One benchmark does not the world make, we could just as well be debating who passes the Acid 3 test faster as well. You do know that both Opera and Chrome are just tweaking the hell out of their JS engines in order to leapfrog each other in SunSpider right? I mean, it's just specific to that one test, and the IE team hasn't done any of that sorta sunspider specific tweaking yet (they said as such a few times).

The point is that, if you only look at one test as the "defacto" one, then all devs have to do is tweak to hell for that specific test and then boast about how they're the fastest. None of that is really "real world" you could say, so the scores are really started to matter less and less IMO.

It's like the GPU makers tweaking their drivers to give them boosts for specific games over others, or even specific tests (futuremark etc).

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Microsoft and Mozilla are working on a real world benchmark suite, so Microsoft at least would be focusing on that.

Mozilla's still optimising around V8/SunSpider, but they're also doing it against other resource heavy JS scripts (like a NES emulator, or a fluid simulator, etc.)

I disagree with this, it seems IE constantly needs security patches, Chrome's sandbox seems to be more secure.

if you read the Chrome update changelogs, you'd realize that Chrome constantly needs security patches too. Also Chrome's sandbox is not really any better than IE8's protected mode (which is a sandbox too), provided you are on Win7.

if comparing Chrome to IE8 on Win7, I can see the claim of IE8 being the more secure browser having some merit.

however, for IE9, despite it being fastest on the IE9 test drive demos with its hardware acceleration, still sucks at Peacekeeper. I kinda wonder why...

Seriously, reading some of the replies in this thread; it seems people hate Internet Explorer because it's Internet Explorer. Historically, it hasn't been fantastic, and it has been in more recent years eclipsed by Firefox and Chrome, but IE9 is the fastest and most secure browser there, choosing not to use it because it's IE is just, well, ridiculous. And seriously, stuff like 'hate', for an internet browser? That's some pretty strong emotions there. It's not like IE ran over your dog or something.

Keep an open mind guys.

If you have done any sort of Web Developement then you have every right to hate IE.

most safest??

I cant trust a guy who cant get his grammar right.

Seriously, reading some of the replies in this thread; it seems people hate Internet Explorer because it's Internet Explorer. Historically, it hasn't been fantastic, and it has been in more recent years eclipsed by Firefox and Chrome, but IE9 is the fastest and most secure browser there, choosing not to use it because it's IE is just, well, ridiculous. And seriously, stuff like 'hate', for an internet browser? That's some pretty strong emotions there. It's not like IE ran over your dog or something.

Keep an open mind guys.

Seriously? (And these figures don't account for Chrome 7 which is even faster still)

IE9's GPU rendering modes are faster because those of Chrome and Firefox are still in development, but in overall performance, it's competitors still have a large lead

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Seriously? (And these figures don't account for Chrome 7 which is even faster still)

IE9's GPU rendering modes are faster because those of Chrome and Firefox are still in development, but in overall performance, it's competitors still have a large lead

Which version of the IE9 preview was that?

Wow, I didn't know Opera was still ahead of Chrome. I would have thought that Chrome would be well ahead of Opera by now in the performance department.

they are neck on neck, with different systems, you may see Opera or Chrome leading the race, both are getting faster and faster consistently.

I.E's security problem is and always is that Microsoft doesn't like issuing out of band security patches so Microsoft will usually only patch a security hole at the start of a month. Mozilla for instance would patch a hole as soon as they can. So I.E. is exposed to vulnerabilities for longer.

they are neck on neck, with different systems, you may see Opera or Chrome leading the race, both are getting faster and faster consistently.

That's also a comparison of the stable Chrome version vs. a pre-release of Opera. :p

Which version of the IE9 preview was that?

4, The last one released

Wow, I didn't know Opera was still ahead of Chrome. I would have thought that Chrome would be well ahead of Opera by now in the performance department.

To be honest, it's close enough to be within the margin of error, the performance of the 2 is very similar, in real world usage though, I find Chrome's cache management to be a bit better

That's also a comparison of the stable Chrome version vs. a pre-release of Opera. :p

10.6 and 10.7 are about the same in performance terms so it doesn't make an awful lot of difference to be honest

but IE9 is the fastest and most secure browser there,

Faster than what ? Browsers already released or in beta state ?

You do realise that by the time IE 9 will be relased new browsers will be out to compete against it. it's not like IE 9 will be released next week. Firefox team has lot of time to polish 4. Google will probably has the time to release 2 new versions of Chrome at this rate ...

I'm actually betting on MS this time. I like Chrome, it's my only browser, I hate FF because it takes much longer to start and it's a memory hog, but I really feel MS will do very well with IE9. They're attitude has changed in so many ways, and they're doing many good things (Windows 7, Bing, Windows Phone, etc.) lately. They won't go wrong with IE9, and yes, I dare to say that this will be a serious problem for other browser developers. :)

IE9 final won't be out for months, i'm sure there will be 2 or more public beta's, they won't just bugfix they will certainly improve performance during that time, IE9 won't be faster than chrome7 final but as long as its of a similar speed to firefox 4 final i'll be happy. Features and standards support is more important than speed. IE9 still has got a LONG way to go in regards to html5 standards support, their benchmarks and tables of supported features are heavily biased and in reality are the lowest of the modern browsers, they have several months to fix this though so i'm not that worried.

I love Chrome so much that it'll take a ****ing miracle to convince me to switch. Especially from Microsoft. Their track record (excluding Windows 7) has to be one of the worst in the industry to me, especially with that loudmouthed hothead Ballmer.

I lost all hope for Firefox since 3.6. It's still a decent browser, but it's behind-the-times and slow. I have tried the latest betas, and it's still slower than Chrome. Plus, it takes longer to start and I hate having to depend on extensions for functionality that Chrome made standard (searching from the address bar, better form auto-fill, etc). As with IE, Mozilla is pretty much dead-in-the-water unless they can come up with something revolutionary.

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