Download Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Preview With GPU Accelerated HTML5 Support

Today at MIX10, Microsoft unveiled the next generation of Internet Explorer browser, IE9. IE9 uses a new JavaScript engine called "Chakra" which has boosted it’s performance as compared to IE8 and browsers like 10.10 and Firefox 3.6, putting it behind Safari, and Opera 10.5.

IE9 Chakra JavaScript Performance

IE9 also supports   and CSS3, however, it falls way to shot in Acid3 tests scoring only 55/100 which is worse than most of the other browsers. IE9 supports GPU or hardware accelerated HTML5, which means that graphics and HTML5 videos will play much better on IE9 because it will utilize the graphics card for better performance.

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The IE blog has a much more detailed post on the new features in IE9. If you are interested, you can download a preview version of IE9 from here.

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  • http://www.shoutmeloud.com Harsh Agrawal

    And it needs OS above Vista Sp2 :|

  • http://geniusgeeks.com Ricky

    Did you try to use benchmarking tool like peacekeeper? IE 9 scores really bad. It is 1/3rd of Google chrome and Opera web browser. It beats Google chrome in speed??? I don't think so. Acid3 score is also far short from respectable score. Hope they come up with better version.

    I hate about IE 8 and above is that I can't use it in my vista basic. IE 9 won't work in XP as well. Why is it so?

  • Aman Gupta