With the second release of IE 9 BETA I decided to make it my primary web browser. IE 9 offers good performance, low memory usage, HTML5 compatibility and hardware acceleration.
But how does it really stack up? My previous primary browser was Chromium 9 with hardware acceleration turned on. Chromium is the "beta" version of Chrome (and Chrome in general has been my primary browser for a few years now, since it came out).
IE 9 really is fast, compared to all previous IE versions, and it does actually render very nicely. IE (and Firefox for that matter) does tend to apply antialiasing a little too thickly and sometimes text can appear fuzzy, whereas in Chrome it is always crisp. But other than that it looks great; pages format well, fonts render well, etc.
IE comes with a new Javascript engine that touts it's speed and while it IS quick, I've found a few problems with it that cause me to, on occasion revert to Chrome/Chromium for a moment. I wouldn't make a big deal about it but, truthfully, Chromium feels "finished" in comparison. But that is probably because the Javascript engine in Chromium is actually quite mature.
Other than those few, minor quibbles, IE has performed quite well and does not feel like its ancestors in any way. It works with MOST online applications and it feels pretty snappy. I will continue to use it and perhaps in a release or two review it, maybe compare it to Chrome.
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