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Hands on with IE 8: A giant step for Microsoft
Closed Published March 25th, 2009 in Browser Security, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8
It’s no secret that when judged by several popular Web browser speed tests, Internet Explorer 8 doesn’t hold up well. Beta versions of IE 8 have been available to the general public for more than a year, and today’s release of the stable build didn’t include anything revolutionary.
Using the SunSpider JavaScript test, the official IE 8 scored 9849.4 ms on a Windows Vista machine with 2 GB of RAM and a 3.00 Ghz clock. This is significantly slower than most other major browsers. Not surprisingly, Microsoft claims (scroll down to Case Study Videos) that these kind of speed tests aren’t relevant to how most people use their browser, and there may be some legitimacy to that. Hands-on with IE 8: A giant step for Microsoft | The Download Blog – Download.com
