Tag Archives: IE9
Video: Chrome 7 vs IE9 With Hardware Acceleration
Posted on 15. Sep, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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Today’s the day that that Internet Explorer 9 Beta has finally been released to the teeming masses. This new version has a very different looking user interface reflecting the changes that Chrome has brought to the browser market. It’s much talked-about hardware acceleration feature has to be one of the reasons that Microsoft created the Test Drive site, which showcasing performance testing for browsers.
So how does IE9 perform against Chrome 7 with the “–enable-accelerated-compositing” GPU flag on with the FishIE Tank test? Take a look.
Enabling GPU Acceleration in Chrome 7
Posted on 29. Aug, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 7 Comments
Although I have already written a how-to on being able to use Native Client in Chrome 7, you can also use a command switch to be able to enable just GPU acceleration.
It’s pretty easy, so here’s how. In your shortcut for Chrome Dev or Chrome Canary, put “–enable-accelerated-compositing” into your shortcut, just like this.
So what can you do with GPU acceleration in Chrome? Right now, not a whole lot. You can check out the interactive examples that Microsoft is offering at their Internet Explorer 9 site, since they are planning to make a big push into hardware acceleration within the browser in order to retain market share.
GPU acceleration is another part of Native Client, when you enable it the GPU portion of it is turned on via a plugin process that is sandboxed. You can see more information on how it works by viewing the Chromium Blog post that refers to it.
The Chromification of Internet Explorer
Posted on 25. Aug, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
Do you like fast acting tabs, the Omnibox and simplicity to your browser design? Then you’re going to love Internet Explorer 9.
According to Computerworld, this image was taken from Microsoft’s Russian site. It appears that in order to save its slowly diminishing browser share, the company is willing to concede that Chrome’s design is successful enough to copy. That goes for features like a faster JavaScript engine and hardware acceleration in the browser, the latter coming to Chrome 7 soon.
Mozilla has also been heading down the same path with the beta version of their newest browser, Firefox 4.
The Internet Explorer 9 beta release will be available in September for Windows 7 and Vista, further alienating Mac, Linux and Windows XP users.
thechromesource Daily: Links for 5/7/10
Posted on 07. May, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
Chrome 6 is coming, a revision posted by Anthony Laforge at the Chromium site says “Update VERSION Major to 6″.
The dev version of Chrome browser has had a stream of updates since yesterday, including many user interface changes.
University of California – Davis has decided to scrap its Gmail system that was being used by employees out of privacy concerns with the system.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 will not support Windows XP – and that makes some at Google a bit angry.
There is an extension now available called ChromeTouch that allows users to have touch functionality in Chrome browser.
thechromesource Daily: Links for 5/1/10
Posted on 01. May, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission may be challenging Google’s acquisition of the mobile advertising company AdMob.
Puleen Patel writes about an interesting concept for Chrome as well as the overall web: co-browsing. I think it fits well with collaboration.
An update to Google Wave now allows users to blog live, which may give the workflow service a much-needed social networking component.
The Chromium Notes blog has a post up about a bug fix (and its challenges) that makes some JavaScript in Chrome about 20% faster.
The Internet Explorer Weblog has a post talking about how HTML5 is the future of the web. IE9 will reportedly support HTML5.
Microsoft Takes Issue With Chrome Feature That Can be Turned Off
Posted on 01. Apr, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 1 Comments
In a video that is meant to show off the security features of Internet Explorer 8, Product Manager Pete LePage takes aim at the Chrome browser, claiming that because IE8 allows users to search in a separate box rather than doing so in an all-in-one inbox box that Google is possibly compromising a user’s security by reporting every term back to Google.
“By keeping these boxes separate, your privacy is better protected and the addresses of the sites you’re visiting aren’t automatically shared with Microsoft, or anyone else,” LePage says in the video.
“As I start to type an address into the address bar, Fiddler [a Web debugging proxy] shows that for nearly every character I type, Chrome sends a request back to Google,” LePage says. “I haven’t even hit enter yet to load the website and Google is already getting information about the domain and sites I’m visiting.”
This only partially true. You are capable of changing your search provider in Chrome, and when you do the information that you search for in the Omnibox will send it back to the engine of your choosing. Just because IE8 has two separate boxes for these functions does not make it safer.
The option for sending information back to Google when you start typing into the Omnibox can be turned off by following these instructions. I know this because I downloaded Fiddler myself and tried it to make sure.
LePage also goes on to promote the virtues of IE8′s InPrivate feature, which allows users to surf the web anonymously. Interestingly, this feature sounds eerily similar to Chrome’s Incognito mode which has been a part of Google’s browser since 2008.
Look, there’s no doubt here that Internet Explorer is facing a decline in market share. A recent graph out by Net Applications shows that Internet Explorer is dropping while Chrome is gaining. At the same time, competitors like Safari (which can be traced to Mac adoption), Firefox and Opera are filling in the space where users once had Internet Explorer as their preferred browser. If Microsoft does not go on the offensive with videos like this they risk losing even more market share.
Expect Microsoft to heavily market IE8 and eventually IE9. They will also do well if they keep copying key elements of other popular browsers if they hope to stay relevant, one of the other “industry standard” practices LePage talks about in the video.
