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/
;)
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.
fuck u use only ie8 and MF
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
fuck u and don’t talk to the lady like that!
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
U work for Microsoft I guess… Never had any problems with Chrome. But nice that you wanna say something negative about Chrome and plug your own system. ;)
NO Geez he must have chromium beta or he is using windows 7 or windows vista sp2 —— Tech-net Beta—— w7 has lots of errors with chrome but they have just fixed the problem —-cheers!—- :| and he could have linux or mac with Wine linux had problems so think before you write on the internet :)
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
Hey John,
Are you from one of those “disenfranchised” minority groups?
Certainly seems that way.
Get an education mate!…and you may also want to consider a second brain cell, the one you have seems to be suffering from some sort of depression caused by loneliness!
John may be from a disenfranchised MAJORITY group.
IE8 still lacks the security of IE7 so until this issue is fixed the speed of IE8 isnt enough to convince me to switch.
What are you talking about? IE8 is more advanced in every way than IE7.
ie8 is good
use MF too its cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
ie8 was the worst peice of garbage i ever had the disadvantage of downloading, i have a core2duo extreme edition @ 3.2ghz, ie7 was instant and i mean instant, i clicked it loaded zero hesitation, ok so now that i see ie8 on my pc (thank you windows update for screwing me again) “lets see why ms put so much emphasis into getting this onto my pc” so i click e and guess what doesnt happen, it now took a complete 30seconds everytime to open ie8, im thinking WTF HAS MS DONE THIS TIME!, and to top it all off i uninstalled ie8, and now my pc errors out alot, THANK YOU MS FOR SENDING ME USELESS JUNK TO CAUSE A REFORMAT! IMHO I SHOULD BE PAID FOR MY TIME WASTED
oh and one more thing, you may thing its better, but check resources, ie7 uses less than half the resources ie8, and another thing for you, watch your task manager when you open ie8..it shows its open twice! (i think something screwey at ms)
“it now took a complete 30seconds everytime to open ie8,”
I think something is wrong with your system. It never took me so much time to start IE8.
“and to top it all off i uninstalled ie8, and now my pc errors out alot, THANK YOU MS FOR SENDING ME USELESS JUNK TO CAUSE A REFORMAT! IMHO I SHOULD BE PAID FOR MY TIME WASTED”
Now you may have a clean and working install instead of the mess before… You should thank MS :D
“when you open ie8..it shows its open twice!”
IE8 runs every tab as a independent process. So when you start it, it starts IE8 and also a new tab. That’s two. If you open an other tab, there’ll be three of them. Amazing, isn’t it! This is also the case with Chrome, by the way. So it’s deliberate and nothing is wrong with it.
crappiest ie ever.. avoid installing ie8.
Just switched to IE 8. Really fast, no problems.
MS has done a good job as usual, and people still blame them, solely because they cannot recognize that they are incompetent with computers.
Speed is not Microsofts problem. Their problem (and the reason why so many people don’t like them) is their failure to adhere to the standards. It costs corporations millions of dollars to fix their websites (that already work with standard browsers) to work on internet explorer.
The internet has pre-defined standards set forth by the W3 which indicates the way a browser must render code. Internet Explorer still does not adhere to many of these code specifications. We have had to hire programmers and pay them just to fix internet explorer bugs.
Dale, this was a very informative post. It explains some of what’s going on behind the scenes. Thanks for sharing.
FUCK U USE INTERNET EXPLORER 8 BITCH
To John, “Fuck” seems to be your favorite word. You sound like an immature jerk. You been trying to promote IE8 but I’m sure IE8 would not want to associate their product or be their spokeperson to a person such as you.
IE 8 is way good than IE 7
Um, Internet Explorer 8 is fast but somewhat I feel like Internet Explorer 7 looked better. Just a somewhat.
Cause the tabs especially don’t have that glowing effect no more. But in the bright side it’s a bit faster.
poo poo pee pee
IE8 is crap. It crashes big time – all the time. I am experiencing this in Win7 and WinXP – 2 completely separate machines. Problem solved on the XP computer by getting RID of it and putting IE7 back on – no problems ever since. Now what to do with Win7. Agggh!!!!
i agree with u my win7 pc is just 2 slow ………..n mf ie7 n chrome r all the better
besides they have reliable security
I like IE 8 but have a problem I never had before….Every time I try to scroll down mail slowly it ends up jumping to the very bottom of the window. Weird. Anybody else find something like this?
hey guys… i just downloaded chrome in order to try another different browser… lately ie8 had been giving me some problems… some?? a mean a loooooot of problems… and i dunno why… but.. there was sometimes that i had to restart my laptop cause ie8 was just not working and get frozen
IE 8 is rubbish
ie 8 sucks ………..it is more vulnerable 2 viruses n gives
problems after installing …….ie 7 ’s better
IE 8 is absolutely rubbish, Microsoft became a rubbish producer since Vista. Microsoft is going to die soon. Google will beat such a fucking company cause so much problem to web designers!