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Anyone tried to run IE 9 it on their netbook yet?
I have IE 9 on mine. I use Firefox generally, but some sites just *still* need IE.
It looks clean, and takes up little screen estate, I don’t use it enough to say how well it performs day to day though.
I read in a review that it will give you vastly increased speed since it uses the power of the graphics card – but a netbook doesn’t have that, so I’m not sure whether it’ll work at all on a netbook, or just make no real difference. Btw I also read some warnings that since it is completely new and still in beta you might not be able to access your netbank or other webservices. Which I personally would find quite inconvenient 🙂 Still, the review also stated that for the first time IE actually outperforms every other browser in the market! So it will be exciting to hear from users who dare give a try on their netbook.
The ‘vastly increased speed’ claim is totally annihilated by the use of Adblock Plus and NoScript with Firefox, as IE will be having to render all of those flash adverts that Firefox users don’t have to.
I can see for myself that a lot of sites are many, many times faster to load in Firefox than in IE 9.
I am using ie9 beta on my desktop and my netbook.
For my desktop it actually has far smoother performance compared to ie8.
But talking about my netbook,it is laggy.Especially with cnet video,it lags when its normal sized, but strangely video becomes smooth in fullscreen,youtube works ok.But i am a fan of the new interface, for once i think its simple but in a good way,especially since the menu interfaces have not been messed around with.
I really hope that the final release is around the corner and it fixes everything thats not right with ie9,i dont want to revert to ie8 but i am considering it.@jez 105078 wrote:
Anyone tried to run IE 9 it on their netbook yet?
I’ve already tried running it on my HP mini 110-1135TU netbook. IE9 is ridiculously slow on it. Even slow when scrolling up and down the page and so laggy. I mean it was just normal browsing and no flash was running on the page. I regretted that I installed it on my netbook because I can’t even uninstall it as there’s no such option in IE9. Just 1 way only, install.
I run IE9 on my desktop, too, but when I play flash games like Mafia Wars and Cafe World on FaceBook, it disconnected so frequently that I can’t even play a game, which hangs and shows “Reconnecting…”. Although it utilizes the graphic processor when rendering pages, still lacks in flash performance, and practically speaking, Google Chrome is the King. Chrome play nice with netbooks and flash. Very fast loading and rendering pages, and very secure.
Conclusion: Netbook owners, pls do not install IE9 on your Netbook. Just like me, you will end up reinstalling the whole O/S from scratch.
The experience with IE9 on my netbook is terrible. It is so true that IE9 uses the power of the graphic card, but netbook doesn’t have one. So, it uses the processor, instead of GC to render web pages, and I think it is not optimized to run on processor alone. So, totally not compatible with netbooks, at least in beta stage.
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