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Internet Explorer has gotten kicked around a lot in the past two years as people are leaving it in droves in heading to Firefox Chrome and the other browsers and while Internet Explorer 8 certainly is much better than its predecessors it still likes far behind in a lot of areas first we will begin with the SunSpider JavaScript test as this graph shows it wasn't even close as Opera 10.5 finish to test over 10 times faster it doesn't get any better when it comes to the drill Mayo test either as Internet Explorer 8 couldn't even complete it using both the Celtic canes JavaScript test and the v8 benchmark ie 8 just barely lagged alone but of course JavaScript isn't everything using acid 3 which is less of a test of outright speed than the other tests in an explorer 8 fared quite poorly as well it also finished way behind the other browsers and the Peacekeeper test which focuses on many many aspects of a browser's performance and there's a better general test while faster than Internet Explorer 7 as you can tell fast and internet explorer 8 don't go together very well it does get somewhat better when you look at boot up times as you can see in a1 start starting the browser after it's already been opened ie is faster than Firefox and opera but when it comes to cold starts again it's dead last memory usage is it strong suit but even then it's solidly outclassed by Firefox that's really disappointing considering that Internet Explorer is built into Windows to a level that the others just can't match luckily numbers aren't everything using Internet Explorer isn't nearly as bad as in previous versions as long as you can keep away from loading up with a million toolbars Aero glass is nicely integrated into the top of the browser and you can quickly and easily customize the look of the browser to make it nice and streamlined looking it also features several nice features such as in private browsing which as with the other browsers won't save your history when you're in that mode one very nice feature of Internet Explorer 8 is support for accelerators accelerators allow you to do different things with highlighted text such as map it translate it email it and more it's a very useful feature that I certainly wouldn't mind using in more browsers overall Internet Explorer isn't as terrible as you might think for sure it's slower than say Chrome but not to the point that the numbers make it out to be it lacks a lot of the special features such as individual tap handling robust add-on support an outright speed that the other browsers have however and security continues to be a major problem while it's not the joke that it used to be there's no doubt that you can do much better so Internet Explorer it's a fifth-place now feel free to go back to the main video via the annotation on your screen to see how the rest of the browsers did you