Internet Explorer 9 Beta

Knoctur_nal · Sep 15, 2010

Source: Engadget

If you're anything like us, as soon as you get a new PC there's a laundry list of things you do: uninstall every piece of crapware, change the desktop wallpaper, and fire up Internet Explorer 8 to download a new browser like Firefox or Chrome. Without fail, we've repeated that last step on every Windows laptop we've reviewed in the last year. Why is it that we almost instantly replace IE with another option? There are lots of reasons, but to name a few... the browser usually comes plastered with toolbars, which makes it painfully slow to load even just a simple news site. And even when those are uninstalled it feels sluggish in comparison to Firefox and Chrome. Also, it's just not as attractive or intuitive as the others. Oh, and then there are the smaller items, like the fact that it lacks a download manager or uses more RAM than the competition.

That's no short list of complaints, but you can't say Microsoft hasn't been listening. It's been saying for months that Internet Explorer 9 -- which is now available for download as a public beta -- will mend all those issues and then some. A lot of the improvements come in speed -- Redmond's been talking about hardware acceleration since November of last year -- but there are some other interesting features such as "Pinned Sites" and "One Box" that Microsoft's been less vocal about. So, does IE9 live up to the hype and will it finally give us a preloaded browser that's fast enough to run with the others? Should you run along and download it right now? We've spent the last week using it as our primary browser on a number of different laptops to find out. We'll meet again in our full review after the break.
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I wouldn't mind giving this a go to see what it throws out.

IE9 Link:http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/

Knoc

Dan · Sep 15, 2010

imma give IE a try as well...

currently, my biggest criteria is the following:

1. fast and efficient javascript engine
2. HTML5 support
3. Security vulnerability issue resolved.. something all its predecessors are cursed with
4. and UI usability, error and system message management or the likes.. i don't want to see any pop ups of auto completes, cookies or any of that bullshit...
5. and getting rid of those ugly, useless and stupid bars at the top... minimalistic is key

but mainly, HTML5 and a better javascript engine

but that's just me lol

Internet Explorer 9 Beta

Knoctur_nal |Force 10 from Navarone|

Dan 8-D