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While the hardware acceleration will only be available on modern Windows, there's a good chance IE9 will come out for Windows XP too. (The lack of hardware acce

by sid0 17y ago

While the hardware acceleration will only be available on modern Windows, there's a good chance IE9 will come out for Windows XP too. (The lack of hardware acceleration on non-modern Windows is something that Firefox will face too once it flips on the D2D switch by default.) > I think all speed improvements of this browser would only be realized if you're already dedicating lots of processing power to OS overhead. That's really not how operating systems work. CPU and RAM are rather orthogonal.

grandalf 17y ago
That's really not how operating systems work. CPU and RAM are rather orthogonal. 1) click on start menu 2) wait 3 seconds for it to respond and open 3) click on icon for browser 4) wait 15 seconds for it to respond 5) wait 5 seconds for it to render the default home page 6) type in desired url and wait 3 seconds for it to download and render. It doesn't matter if the new IE browser is faster than firefox, since any computer that is powerful enough to run Vista in the first place will probably not take a noticeable amount of time to render a page in Firefox. The above is an example of the vista user experience on a slower computer. That same computer could (running linux) load google chrome and open the desired page in 1 second each.
- sid0 17y ago
  > It doesn't matter if the new IE browser is faster than firefox, since any computer that is powerful enough to run Vista in the first place will probably not take a noticeable amount of time to render a page in Firefox. Probably not, but hardware acceleration makes a ton of difference in responsiveness (it pushes a lot of things below that 100ms barrier where you feel that things happen instantaneously). Try out a Firefox 3.7a3pre nightly on a Windows Vista SP2 or 7 computer, enable Direct2D, and see for yourself.

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While the hardware acceleration will only be available on modern Windows, there's a good chance IE9 will come out for Windows XP too. (The lack of hardware acce

by sid0 17y ago

grandalf 17y ago
That's really not how operating systems work. CPU and RAM are rather orthogonal. 1) click on start menu 2) wait 3 seconds for it to respond and open 3) click on icon for browser 4) wait 15 seconds for it to respond 5) wait 5 seconds for it to render the default home page 6) type in desired url and wait 3 seconds for it to download and render. It doesn't matter if the new IE browser is faster than firefox, since any computer that is powerful enough to run Vista in the first place will probably not take a noticeable amount of time to render a page in Firefox. The above is an example of the vista user experience on a slower computer. That same computer could (running linux) load google chrome and open the desired page in 1 second each.
- sid0 17y ago
  > It doesn't matter if the new IE browser is faster than firefox, since any computer that is powerful enough to run Vista in the first place will probably not take a noticeable amount of time to render a page in Firefox. Probably not, but hardware acceleration makes a ton of difference in responsiveness (it pushes a lot of things below that 100ms barrier where you feel that things happen instantaneously). Try out a Firefox 3.7a3pre nightly on a Windows Vista SP2 or 7 computer, enable Direct2D, and see for yourself.