IE 8 beta 2 disappoint : Microsoft Rolls Out Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8
2008-09-02
Unveiled last Wednesday, the second beta of Internet Explorer 8 promised to correct numerous errors of the previous version. Yet one week after its launch, some users are not convinced of the potential associated with this beta.
Christian Stockwell, developer within the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft said: "IE8, we also focus our efforts in memory management.. So far, we have solved nearly 400 bugs [...] We have also improved memory management on web pages using AJAX. For the user, it reduces the memory consumed by IE ". However, according to Craig Barth, developer at Devil Mountain Software, the consumption of memory for IE 8 Beta 2 is 52% higher than for IE7 and Mozilla Firefox.
On each of these browsers the same reference websites were visited. In addition, plug-in Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash Player was installed for each browser. After putting into practice this scenario, Barth analyzed that IE8 beta 2 had swallowed 380 MB of 2 GB of RAM of the machine against 250 MB to 159 MB IE7 and Firefox 3.0.1 Barth concludes: "when booting Windows XP, the operating system as a whole consumes between 130 and 150 MB [Editor's note: RAM] before adding" IE8 is more gourmand than XP. "
. Barth explained that the performance of the browser are also affected by the use of multi-threading, a technology to exploit fully the processors. "According to me, with IE8, Microsoft aims machines last generation."
The testers IE 8 beta 2 have noted several other problems. Thus, under Windows XP SP3, it is not possible to revert to IE 7 without having first proceeded to uninstall the service pack. More fun, the website Windows Live meeting does not recognize Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 browser compatible.
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