HarryWeezer Posted February 15, 2011 Member ID: 20166 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 611 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 7652 Content Per Day: 1.98 Reputation: 7228 Achievement Points: 53663 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 36 Joined: 10/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 16 Birthday: 10/16/1946 Device: Windows Share Posted February 15, 2011 We've had some folks with compability problems with our web site using Internet Explorer 8. If you're running Vista or W7 and using IE for your browser, you should immediately upgrade to IE9, which uses hardware acceleration and presents a dramatic improvement in site compilation speed. This is Release Candidate 1 for IE9, just released last week. Get it here: http://windows.microsoft.com/ie9. If you're still on XP, you should be using Firefox 4.0 which also employs hardware acceleration. Release candidate status means a program is through its beta testing period and all but finished. There may be a few quirks, and a release candidate is designed to find them. But I've not had a problem with IE9 RC1 and it will be a simple upgrade to the final version when it's released. IE9 leaves previous versions in the dust. Hardware acceleration opens the door to developers to offer complex graphics and images - the more powerful your GPU, the faster these sites will display - hardware acceleration offloads site compilation from your CPU or central processor, to your graphics processor. IE9 is much cleaner than IE8 with with less clutter at the top of the browser. The home, tools and favorites buttons are at top right and include the zoom and print functions which are separate buttons in IE8. Other than your search window, there’s nothing else to pull your attention away from sites unless you install various third-party toolbars. The IE9 address bar is now called "one box" because in addition to URLs, you may use it to search the web, check your site history and see frequently visited sites from one location. Notifications now appear at the bottom of the browser instead of as pop-ups. There's a site indicator bar that shows how often you visit various sites, and an add-on performance advisor that indictes which add-ons are affecting performance. IE9 offers tab management improvements: you may drag tabs to a new window or dock them to the side of the display, and you can snap two tabbed pages together in a single view. You also may pin favorite sites directly to the taskbar for one-click access, and keep track of anything you’ve downloaded through a download manager that lists all files you’ve downloaded, where they are located, and which allows you pause and restart a download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Credit Posted February 15, 2011 Member ID: 1030 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 17 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 357 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 1955 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/17/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 06/25/1990 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Is it better than Google Chrome ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavey Posted February 15, 2011 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.42 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Basically IE 9 now does what Firefox has done for ages. LOL Using Firefox 4 at work as a trial but they still refuse to get it working for server UNC paths, which is really pissing me off, and is the only downside to Firefox. I'm presently scripting a proxy.pac file as a work around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryWeezer Posted February 15, 2011 Member ID: 20166 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 611 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 7652 Content Per Day: 1.98 Reputation: 7228 Achievement Points: 53663 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 36 Joined: 10/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 16 Birthday: 10/16/1946 Device: Windows Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 Firefox launched hardware acceleration in version 4.0 last September. Chrome will have it in version 7.0, not yet released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Credit Posted February 15, 2011 Member ID: 1030 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 17 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 357 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 1955 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/17/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 06/25/1990 Share Posted February 15, 2011 So that makes you internet faster ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryWeezer Posted February 15, 2011 Member ID: 20166 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 611 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 7652 Content Per Day: 1.98 Reputation: 7228 Achievement Points: 53663 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 36 Joined: 10/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 16 Birthday: 10/16/1946 Device: Windows Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 No, the speed at which you download (bandwidth) depends on whatever arrangement you have with your provider. Hardware-accelerated browsers allow your system (depending on system hardware of course) to work faster compiling graphically-intensive websites. The data stream to your system can actually improve, because data is handled more efficiently by such browsers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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