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    IE9 RC Released

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Jayayess1190, Feb 10, 2011.

  1. anseio

    anseio All ways are my ways.

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    Again, it's a relative term when considering internet speeds. I tether through my cell phone and have been getting 150Kbps on average, until I started using a different cable (and setting my phone on my aluminum ODD enclosure). I now get rates up to 700Kbps. beatyoftheweb was not what I consider to be "slow" given my connection speeds. For those who demand more instant loading, I'm sure it is.
     
    anseio, Feb 12, 2011
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  2. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Even at 150Kbit/s say a 20KB html file would arrive in just over 1s

    -> In theory I should have about 3MBit/s down (hits 4, best was possibly close to 5) but I was waiting for that page to slowly load...

    Plain HTML is very, very small. My website runs from Home, it used to be 45KB/s up, now it's about 110KB/s up. It works fine, it's plain HTML, a bit of CSS - images are hosted on Flickr.
     
    DetlevCM, Feb 12, 2011
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  3. michael_recycled

    michael_recycled Notebook Deity

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    I love this one:
    So, formerly, browsing the web required only 10% CPU load, now with IE9 you finally managed to get 100% :cool:

    jk,
    Michael
     
    michael_recycled, Feb 12, 2011
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  4. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I think it's more in the past browsing couldn't take a lot of resources, now it can - but still, all the netbook users will feel happy :) and I would hate loosing battery life to some ridiculous animations that waste my time.
     
    DetlevCM, Feb 12, 2011
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  5. Rodster

    Rodster Merica

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    I think IE9 looks cleaner but I prefer IE8. :)
     
    Rodster, Feb 14, 2011
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  6. lineS of flight

    lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso

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    This is about the problem I mentioned before about how Gmail renders in IE9 RC - text being too small and somewhat blurred. Initially, I thought something was wrong with my settings - so I tried everything I could think of and what others on various forums suggested. I then found that others have the same problem too. See here, here and here. I hope Google/ MS are able to solve this because otherwise IE9 seems to be a very good browser.
     
    lineS of flight, Feb 14, 2011
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  7. TSE

    TSE Notebook Deity

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    How/where do I install Flash 10.2? If I go to the link, it says Internet Explorer 9 is not supported.
     
    TSE, Feb 14, 2011
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  8. TwiztidKidd

    TwiztidKidd Notebook Evangelist

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    I find IE9 RC to use less resources CPU and RAM. I'm very disappointed with the download progress bar which is missing from the taskbar. What happened there? This is supposed to be a better version than the previous one. I'm back to IE8 for this reason mainly.
     
    TwiztidKidd, Feb 14, 2011
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  9. KonstantinDK

    KonstantinDK Notebook Evangelist

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    Guys, you don't keep up with news. It's not really about the size of the page anymore, its about how many requests browser need to send.
    But, still true, lots of animation and flashy stuff requires lots of requests.
     
    KonstantinDK, Feb 14, 2011
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  10. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    -> Size matters too.

    I will not wait for a site to load 5s or so because some idiot made it too big. And quite a few sites are unbearable without an adblocker or cached data - because of images or funny menus.

    And yes, I view a site at 100KB as slow -> if you live in Korea or Japan size won't matter if you have 50MBit/s internet, but then the servers possibly can't keep up.
    -> a small page will ALWAYS load faster that an a big one - no matter if one has 10 or 20 requests.
     
    DetlevCM, Feb 14, 2011
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  11. JWBlue

    JWBlue Notebook Deity

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    Does it load pages faster than Chrome?

    That is all I care about.
     
    JWBlue, Feb 14, 2011
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  12. lineS of flight

    lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso

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    Arguably, yes (on my set up that is).
     
    lineS of flight, Feb 15, 2011
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  13. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    Internet Explorer 9 Tracking Protection Lists not all created equal
    ZDnet

     
    Jayayess1190, Feb 15, 2011
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  14. comrade_commissar7

    comrade_commissar7 Notebook Evangelist

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    Does anyone know when the non-beta IE9 will be released? Any clues? :)
     
    comrade_commissar7, Feb 15, 2011
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  15. lineS of flight

    lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso

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    If by that you mean IE 9 final (RTW), then allegedly it is to be sometime around April. But this is all rumour so take it for what it is worth.
     
    lineS of flight, Feb 15, 2011
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