Well it’s here and after checking it out on my laptop & making sure it loaded my key sites OK I installed in on my main PC. Intel core i5 & 32bit Windows 7. Out of interest I benchmarked a a few sites with IE8 & IE9. All tests after a re-start. Times in seconds
IE8 IE9 Chrome
Load time 6.2 6.0
http://www.bbc.co.uk 2.9 2.0 1.6
BBC weather site 3.8 2.9 2.6
Jigzone 1.9 1.5 2.2
Jigzone puzzle 20.0 5.0 3.4 (JAVA test)
So Chrome is still better but hardley noticable
Memory usage – interestingly IE appears twice in Task manager so I have added the numbers together for simplcity. (Chrome appears three times) Numbers in MBytes
Home page – Google 21 27 35
BBC 77 58 71
BBC Weather 84 68 49
Jigzone 58 63 46
Jigzone puzzle 68 82 55
Some up some down.
Why they put the tabs on the same line as the address bar who knows but at least you can change it but why can’t I put them where they used to be and why move the favourites from left to right. Sometimes looks like change for changes sake.
Overall goes faster, works allright.
Peter
