Posts Tagged ‘IE9’

Analysis - For a brief moment, you could have thought the browser speed race was over and is now replaced with a contest for the best HTML5 implementation. The latest Chrome and IE9 previews tell a different story – more speed continues to be a feature of browsers and there is room for improvement. Time to take the latest browser versions through the benchmark parcours, which not only reveals the fastest browser available today, but also a forgotten strength of the current IE8.

Take this, Apple. Google quietly released a new beta version of its Chrome browser, which not only blows its rivals out of the water as far as performance is concerned, but comes with half a dozen new features, including direct integration of Adobe Flash. Not a big deal for Google, apparently, but we were told Adobe was taking a deep breath, especially since Google is the popular new kid on the browser block.

Just when you thought Google’ Chrome web browser is untouchable and light years ahead of its rivals, Microsoft finds that Chrome does not excel in all performance disciplines. Hardware acceleration hands Microsoft a huge advantage at this time. If we believe one of Microsoft’s examples, IE9 can run heavy graphics more than 30 times faster than the latest Chrome browser.

Google today released a new public Windows beta version of its Chrome web browser, which comes with a handful of new features. However, the true improvement happens deep under the hood as Chrome 5 is substantially faster that Chrome 4, Safari 4 and Microsoft IE9 Platform Preview. It is stunning to see how quickly the browser sails through current Javascript benchmarks.

Here is our headline selection of news not to miss this morning:Desktop sales explode with double-digit growth, Google has a Buzz widget for Android, Sony gets Move to PAX East, Sony invades shopping malls and Apple files for social patent.