Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) vs. Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) (Performance)
Written by Vygantas Lipskas on August 27, 2008
I’ve some great news for Internet Explorer users. While IE8 Beta 1 had some performance improvements over IE7, it was not enough and developers knew that. As a result, they’ve made Internet Explorer 8 even faster. As it says:
Some of the tests we have done show pure JScript performance improvements up to 2.5 times. We also measured the performance gains on common Gmail operations, like loading the inbox (34%), opening a conversation (45%) and opening a thread (27%) compared to IE7.
I think that it’s a great improvement and Internet Explorer 8 Final will probably be even faster.
Now here’s what else IE 8 is going to offer:
Scripting Improvements
Memory Management Improvements
Networking Improvements
Rendering Engine Improvements
New Developer Features
Data URI
Selectors API
JSON
and much more.
For a more detailed list of IE8 improvements, check this blog post.
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Serious JavaScript performance boost for Firefox 3.1
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/08/serious-javascript-performance-boost-for-firefox-31/
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also, it offers extendables search bar and search suggestions from search bar - these are super features i asked opera. Ie8 will rock. Inprivate feature is fantastic.
I’m definitely downloading Internet Explorer 8. I must admit that I am getting addicted to Google Chrome, but IE 8 should be able to change that.
I’ll bet once it’s real version is out and when it’s up on windows update, it will get tons of downloads like FF3 and then hackers will put more attention on IE like they did with FF3. It’s worth it though, and so far IE8 sounds like its a big hit. Im going to wait untill the full version is out though.
I downloaded IE8 a week ago; real fast - nice ! Something for the users - speed !! We love it !! HOWEVER….5-6 days later I am being overrun with adware infections !!!!! More than I have ever seen in such a short time period. 80+ in 2 days….surfing no funky web sites….performance going to the dogs…… Just a coincidence - right ? McAfee, AOL and Ad-Aware 2008; trying to keep up and losing ground….
I downloaded and installed IE8 with a windows update earlier this evening and just finished uninstalling and going back to IE7! I was getting multiple horizontal scroll bars on the bottom of my screen and double vertical scrolls on the right.
Dave - Do you think that your adware infections may be due to LSO’s allowed to operate thru Adobe? Here is a good link which explains the issues.
http://tips.webdesign10.com/flash-cookies-privacy
I disagree with the author’s statement that it is the browsers duty to block this spyware. It is the companies using and installing the tracking bugs and cookies who should be prevented from invading our privacy, and who should be strictly accountable for having done so.
Jody, that’s due to the “compatible mode”. Some websites don’t render properly in this mode, so you have to switch.
The funny thing is that some of the websites that I’ve developed in ASP.NET do not render properly in this mode, so I’m hoping that MS will soon bring all its apps into sync with the standards.
I’m a baseball nut and with IE7 thru donbest.com/scores in favs always go to current days scores with IE8 goes to whatever date that IE8 was installed and you manually have to go to current day’s scores- so have gone back to IE7 and will wait a little longer for IE8 - also did not notice any more speed - have 64bit with vista prem
I must say that being an IE8 user I am quite happy with the performance that it gives: certainly fater than IE7, but for basic surfing I’ll just stick to gool ol’ Chromey!
I am really satisfied with IE8, I used to use Chrome, but it started to give me problems, and that’s when I saw the ad for IE8 on Microsofts website.
No problems with it yet… I’ve had it for about a week now
I’ve just started using ie8 and find that with email the keyboard skips and misses letters. Will resetting ie8 fix this, I never had any trouble with ie7.
IE8 better than fucking IE7
U Can Download IE8 From This Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx
IE8 still lacks the security of IE7 so until this issue is fixed the speed of IE8 isnt enough to convince me to switch.