That Fish test relies on Resolution, with 100 fish at 1920x1080, I get around 20fps, but if I go back to windowed mode and then shrink it even further, I can easily push it way past 100fps, what exactly does it test?
There's hardly any UI to be seen, most of it is just browser windows. I like the idea of putting tabs at the same level with the address bar, saves space vertically. The dropdown could have been wider though to show more information. I am impressed by the speed.
IE is well intergrated into the OS :rolleyes: Is it such a big deal rebooting?
I know more than most how well integrated in to the OS it is, but I disagree it should cause a reboot. I would imagine, and hope, the parts of the trident rending engine used to display parts of Explorer etc are not being updated to the IE9 version. It will more likely be bug fixes and the DLL will be protected by WRT hence the reboot. I don't see why that should force me to reboot when all I want to do is try it out.
And, yes, rebooting is a big deal. I'm sat here wtih two chrome instances open, Outlook, 2x VS, 1xBlend and several RDP sessions. Aswell as a being connected to a US VPN to stream Pandora. I rarely shut my machine down and reopening them is a pita
I suppose the use of Windows graphics acceleration, is an advantage Microsoft has over their rivals, as they own the OS. I wonder if this technology will be made available to their rivals. If not cue the EU.
Did you know you can drag the address bar about to shrink/enlarge it
Then it takes space away from tabs. I'd just prefer when the drop down is opened to be wider than the address bar is to show more info than just 'http://...'. It's OK at work with my 24'' 1920x1200 monitor, but I don't see much on my 17'' laptop.
I know more than most how well integrated in to the OS it is, but I disagree it should cause a reboot. I would imagine, and hope, the parts of the trident rending engine used to display parts of Explorer etc are not being updated to the IE9 version. It will more likely be bug fixes and the DLL will be protected by WRT hence the reboot. I don't see why that should force me to reboot when all I want to do is try it out.
And, yes, rebooting is a big deal. I'm sat here wtih two chrome instances open, Outlook, 2x VS, 1xBlend and several RDP sessions. Aswell as a being connected to a US VPN to stream Pandora. I rarely shut my machine down and reopening them is a pita
I like the User Interface as its a much cleaner and crisp layout,overall just looks better
Adobe flash objects run very well.
I tried the fish benchmark I get full 60 fps on full screen, so I guess its using all my cores
The idea is that most of the work done for the fish test is done by the GPU rather than the CPU so if all your cores are being used by IE9, that's not a good sign.
Still isnt as fast as Chrome on day to day browsing.
General consensus at the moment seems to be that it's faster than FF3.6 but slower than Chrome.
But I guess the most important thing is perhaps not being the very fastest but having closed down the gap significantly. Shows hope for the IE dev team. You only need to close the gap down to a level where active effort is required to perceive the speed difference.
Lots of people still use IE because:
a) don't know any better
b) can't be bothered to change
c) not allowed to change e.g. in the workplace
The idea is that most of the work done for the fish test is done by the GPU rather than the CPU so if all your cores are being used by IE9, that's not a good sign.
Yes, thats what I meant actualyl GPU! I checked the clock speeds
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I'm not a big believer in alot of benchmarks, what I'm really interested in is day to day performance on sites I use.
Loving the new cleaner UI and it takes up less of the screen.
There's hardly any UI to be seen, most of it is just browser windows. I like the idea of putting tabs at the same level with the address bar, saves space vertically. The dropdown could have been wider though to show more information. I am impressed by the speed.
Yes. I put this website in Compatibility View at links seem to work alright now.
IE is well intergrated into the OS :rolleyes: Is it such a big deal rebooting?
I know more than most how well integrated in to the OS it is, but I disagree it should cause a reboot. I would imagine, and hope, the parts of the trident rending engine used to display parts of Explorer etc are not being updated to the IE9 version. It will more likely be bug fixes and the DLL will be protected by WRT hence the reboot. I don't see why that should force me to reboot when all I want to do is try it out.
And, yes, rebooting is a big deal. I'm sat here wtih two chrome instances open, Outlook, 2x VS, 1xBlend and several RDP sessions. Aswell as a being connected to a US VPN to stream Pandora. I rarely shut my machine down and reopening them is a pita
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11315819
I suppose the use of Windows graphics acceleration, is an advantage Microsoft has over their rivals, as they own the OS. I wonder if this technology will be made available to their rivals. If not cue the EU.
Then it takes space away from tabs. I'd just prefer when the drop down is opened to be wider than the address bar is to show more info than just 'http://...'. It's OK at work with my 24'' 1920x1200 monitor, but I don't see much on my 17'' laptop.
The only thing that doesn’t look right is the large Back Button that’s cut off at the bottom.
They also need to have page previews like chrome when you open a new tab instead of little icons in massive boxes.
Still isnt as fast as Chrome on day to day browsing.
IE8 just seems bloated compared to this.
I like the User Interface as its a much cleaner and crisp layout, overall it just looks better
Additionally Adobe flash run very well.
I tried the fish benchmark I get full 60 fps on full screen, so I guess its using all my cores
Then keep a VM handy to check things out?
The idea is that most of the work done for the fish test is done by the GPU rather than the CPU so if all your cores are being used by IE9, that's not a good sign.
General consensus at the moment seems to be that it's faster than FF3.6 but slower than Chrome.
But I guess the most important thing is perhaps not being the very fastest but having closed down the gap significantly. Shows hope for the IE dev team. You only need to close the gap down to a level where active effort is required to perceive the speed difference.
Lots of people still use IE because:
a) don't know any better
b) can't be bothered to change
c) not allowed to change e.g. in the workplace
IE9 probably most beneficial for c)
Yes, thats what I meant actualyl GPU! I checked the clock speeds