First look at IE8 RC1

[epk]

The 8th version of internet explorer has reached release candidate state, which means its feature complete.

it's been showed off and the guys at TG Daily put up a nice article

you can check it here


with all the fuss about it's security a few days ago and google's Chrome hitting final, the timing seems appropiate =]

tho i doubt i'll abandon my beloved firefox

 

[Dark Atheist]

glad i am beginning to use Linux more and more

 

[Gigabot]

Out of curiosity, we ran Google’s V8 JavaScript benchmark (yes, we know, it is a Chrome-biased benchmark, but the performance difference between browsers is nevertheless interesting.) Using a dual-core Pentium 2.8 GHz system, the new build of IE8 scored 27.1 on our test system. By comparison, Firefox 3.1 beta 2 scored 104 (higher is better) and Google Chrome scored a whopping 1401.

IE8 clearly comes in behind in this test, with a significant margin. The result got worse for Microsoft with a more advanced system - an Intel Core 2 Quad-based computer - in absolute numbers: IE8 RC1 scored 105, Firefox 3.1 beta 2 265 and Chrome 1.0 2991.

It's still slower than Firefox and Google Chrome, so I won't really use it unless I have to. I'm sticking with Firefox because of my addons otherwise I would of been using Chrome since it runs faster.

 

[Dark Atheist]

all this test show is that you can get your pron quicker, big deal

 

[Perris Calderon]

and why did they not test opera?

 

[Gigabot]

and why did they not test opera?

Well here's a website comparing a lot of different features in IE 8 along with a lot of other browsers: http://internet-browser-review.toptenreviews.com/

This link explains how the speeds were determined:
http://internet-browser-review.toptenreviews.com/internet-browser-time-trials.html