Toms Hardware extensive browser test roundup - IE9 not so bad

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mchaza said:

disolitude said:

yo_john117 said:

I'll still stick with chrome since I'm sure IE9 still isn't better.

That really depends what you want to do and what you mean "better".

I for one am not a web developer and don't give a rats ass what a browser scores in some javascript benchmark. I care how fast it is, howmany resources it uses and how secure it is...and thats about it.

IE9 is faster on most major pages than Chrome, uses less memory per tab than Chrome, boots faster than Chrome and uses hardware acceleration to load pages...Chrome doesnt.

No word on security on toms Hardware benchmarks for either browser, but for me and things that matter to my browsing experience, IE9 beats chrome.

right now i have both IE9 and Chrome and the whole boots faster doesn't matter because i cant really tell the differenct they are both up and running fast which is great. uses Less Memory, well unless you tend to be running an game in one half and an browser in the othere there no problem there, and security, well they are both secure. But bascially what i can get out of this is that IE9 may be better than chrome preformance wise, its extremely better than IE8 or past IE but you aren't going to notice the difference. 

Also IE9 is only for Windows 7 so its not prefect. And also its basically now down to design choice. I prefer the chrome over the IE9 due to the home and refresh buttons are very small and the bookmarks are the easiest of all browsers to get too. But thats me. 

But for an non technical person, there is little reason to rush an get IE9 and lose your bookmarks. 

Oh no it isn't. Its down to the technical aspects of the browsers which IE9 still fails at with flying colors. FireFox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari all support way more aspects of HTML5's functionality as well as most feature way better Javascript 3 and CSS3.1 functionality. Also if you want other features that can make the experience unique Chrome and Firefox are the ones to use.

Also Chrome and FireFox both have hardware acceleration. IE9 has this, but its highly broken.

FireFox also has taken most add-ons and placed them in a separate process making it almost impossible to crash the browser if flash, shockware, or some other add-on to crash it. All you will have to do is refresh the page and the add-on will reload.