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Tags: browser, fastest browser, internet explorer, new internet explorer

Internet Explorer 9 is ‘crazy fast’ according to Microsoft, but the Sunspider JavaScript results published by the company show that the latest browser from Redmond still lags behind many of its rivals.

The Sunspider results have become a familiar metric in how fast browsers are judged to be, and Microsoft’s IE8 was judged harshly for its poor performance.

At the preview event for IE9 at MIX, Microsoft’s Principal Program Lead Jason Weber insisted that the latest version of Internet Explorer would ‘change the way you think’ with its speed.

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Tags: browser, ie8, internet explorer, security, xss

For more details about this new XSS Filter for Internet Explorer 8, read here (XSSFilter in IE8.0)

Tags: browser, ie8, internet explorer, Microsoft, standard compliant

Internet Explorer 8 is set to be Microsoft’s most standards compliant browser ever. After originally stating that IE8 would default to the same noncompliant behavior exhibited by IE7, Microsoft relented and plumped for standard-by-default. The first beta of IE8 was released in March and it did indeed default to standards compliance. Web developers have been clamouring for standards compliance for a long time; IE is a long way behind the competition, requiring considerable hacks and workarounds to get pages working properly.

IE8 should make things a lot better—but it will still fall far short of the standards set by Firefox, Safari, and Opera. Some of these problems are technical, but others are cultural. Where the other browser developers are open and communicative, Microsoft is still leaving web developers in the dark.

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Tags: browser, firefox, internet explorer, opera, safari

Lifehacker post an article about this new Firefox 3.
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Mozilla VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer claims that Firefox 3 is 9.3x faster than Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 2.7x faster than Firefox 2 in terms of JavaScript performance. In terms of Gmail message load time, he claims Firefox 3 is 6.8x faster than IE7 and 3.8x faster than Firefox 2. And he says Firefox 3 beats Apple’s Safari, which is also faster than Firefox 2.
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