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While I think it will work well for many, it does still fall some way short for those placing more extreme demands, however.
It lacks any direct equivalent to the "pinned tabs" found in Firefox and Chrome; these tabs occupy less space than regular tabs, making them convenient for persistently-open sites. The new tab management facilities in Firefox 4 also have no analog in Internet Explorer.
Browser performance is a complex, multifaceted thing. Headlines are made with JavaScript performance, but there's more to a browser than its scripting: reading and understanding HTML, drawing graphics on-screen, laying out text, and so on.
Work has been carried out in all these areas to make IE9 a truly fast browser. Chief among these improvements are a new JavaScript engine, named Chakra, and the use of the GPU for handling drawing tasks.
In both cases, these are designed to exploit the capabilities of a modern PC. Chakra is multithreaded, compiling and optimizing JavaScript in a secondary thread, while allowing the primary thread to start executing the script directly in the meantime. Mozilla and Google are both developing similar hardware acceleration for Firefox and Chrome, respectively.
He bet wrong; Internet Explorer 9 is the first stable browser to reach the market with extensive, broad-based hardware acceleration. Firefox 4 due in a few days or weeks will add GPU acceleration support too, and Chrome 11 currently in beta should provide broad GPU acceleration too—but as things stand, Microsoft is going to be first to market with a widely accelerated browser.
The company has raised the bar on what's expected in a browser, and it's no great surprise to see Mozilla and Google go down a similar path. True, now all the browsers look basically the same, thanks to Chrome's interface innovation. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. And in IE9's case, it's a very good thing. However, by default, a Bing toolbar is turned on, conflicting with the clean look. If you're not a fan of toolbars in general, or Bing specifically, it's easy enough to turn off.
Add-ons can add a lot of overhead to browser load time and browsing time. Load down your browser with enough of them, and no matter the browser's basic speed, it can become sluggish. IE9 has a very nice feature that automatically warns you via a pop-up when your add-ons increase load time and browsing time, and let you disable them.
If you want, you can later turn them on. You can see the new tool in action, below. The HP Envy 17 is obviously the powerhouse of the bunch -- it has a 1.
The lower the score the better. Of course, the goal is for the browser to hit Only Chrome hit the mark, though IE9 did score an impressive 95 across all systems.
Higher is better here! What doesn't really come through in those benchmarks is the browser's hardware accelerated graphics. Microsoft's designed the browser to take advantage of the GPU in graphics intensive situations, and we obviously jumped at the chance to test the browser out on a few laptops with discrete GPUs. The JavaScript-based Amazon Shelf demo, which you can check out in the video below, is pretty stunning; on the M11x with the GPU activated, the demo ran at 60fps about 55fps when we turned a page in a book.
With the GPU off, the experience was a bit more sluggish — it ran at 16fps and 9fps when turning a page. How does that Amazon Shelf demo work in other browsers? Both Chrome 6.
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