IE9 confirmed for March 2010

if its a browser war discussion my views are.

chrome - not tried.
FF - is great for blocking ads, plugins useful. However has weird bug where it stutters.
opera - is slow at loading pages not cached, pages that are cached are insanely fast, ad blocking not as good as ff, good cookie management system.
IE8 - got some kind of resources/memory leak, it slows down when running for a while and memory usage goes up whilst idle (also occurs in no addons mode), sometimes back/forward buttons stop working. hard to get good ad blocking working on it, at the moment using simple adblock but its missing ads blocked in ff on same block lists. Browsing however overall beats FF for speed, and it beats opera on uncached page speed. Alot of these problems mentioned did not occur when I ran IE8 in windows XP which is a surprise.

chrysalis,

when you compared Opera's performance with the other browsers, was that today? 10.50 was just released, and it is quite different than before. The only thing that I've found slow about it, is that at times, it pauses before it even starts to load a page, but this doesn't seem to have anything to do with whether the page is cached or not, nor is it a consistent trait. Once the page does begin to load, it is done in a flash. I do not know if this would be the general behavior, or something just in my installation or hardware?

gotta admit I'm really looking forward to IE9 - apart from the fact that I have always used IE, and have never considered using any other browser..

it promises to be even more closely (- and cleverly!) integrated into the Windows OS, and especially into Windows Seven..

from what I hear it will make much more use of a system's graphics capabilities, and that really will be an innovation..

- can't wait...

Zidane24 said:

I thought this thread was to discuss IE9...

Was

DarkNovaGamer said:

Anyone know 'when' in March its suppose to pop up? Probably has been asked before but to be honest I don't feel like reading the entire thread

There wont be released in march, there will be preview on MIX and i guess we might get some beta (technology preview) at this point. Everything more are illusions.... IE9 is far from finished.