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hey guys mkbhd here back with another high-definition video and today we're going to be taking a look at Internet Explorer yes I didn't think I would be saying this or ever doing a video about this but today we have the newest version of Internet Explorer 9 beta which is actually a humongous improvement over Internet Explorer 8 the final version so just so you guys know this yes is still in beta which means it's not meant to be your full-time browser but you certainly could go with this option if you're still using Internet Explorer 8 so this is the first page it greets you with you can see it says welcome to a more beautiful web you can see how it works and you can see it's actually pretty much broadcasting at fishtank test we looked at back in our google chrome 7 video so basically I'm gonna give you guys a look over the overall the user interface what I like to call an interface lift so we'll close out of that here so you can see there's a whole lot of screen space at the bottom and up here next to the URL bar there's a very nice user space which I could actually get used to in something like Chrome or whatever who else decides to adopt this you have the URL bar on the left hand side with back and forward and your typical omni bar here which you'll see with something like Google Chrome then you have the X button for stopping things in reloading then you have your tabs here you can open a new tab and you're presented with this nice little most visited sites so you can see this is the least active I've only visited this once visit this once and I've visited Google a ton of times so that's basically how it'll sort your most viewed pages so you can open a new tab that way all the way over on the right-hand side here there's your home button of course my home is Google com I wanna clean enough there's also your favorites button typical Microsoft you can obviously obviously obviously move it over to the left hand side with that button and close your favorites here and it has a chrome like tools button with that little wrench so you can print and do all your different things I really think there's a much better implementation if you saw Internet Explorer 8 there was a giant area here you would actually have all your tools and things you wouldn't be able to have them just behind one little button right here just like that so that's really nice something else I want to show you guys is that fish tank tests remember I did that in the chrome 7 video it did perform relatively well not stunning but certainly better than the last version of Google Chrome so you can find this out the link in the description along with the download link to Internet Explorer 9 and I'll make sure I get it right this time so you can see right off the bat with the screen recorder going you can see we're getting about 55 frames a second with 20 fish which is very impressive you're not gonna get all those frames see with Mac's out of 60 frames a second here we go 250 fish with hardware acceleration we still maintain that a hundred fish with hardware acceleration or over 30 frames a second so this is gonna perform a lot better than chrome 7 I never thought I'd say that but it's actually really basically with hardware acceleration movements going on within your browser and things like this are going to perform much better so of course with one fish we're going to get a ridiculous frame count something else we want to show you guys is the acid3 test a very popular test of course by standard it'll Bing search everything you can obviously well you can change this to be Google I haven't exactly gone through the Preferences yet you can go to Internet Options just like you could in the last version and I suppose you can change that to Google but I'm actually fine with the Bing I don't have a problem with it so let's go ahead and notch I got the acid3 test you saw the scrolling bar up there and it looks like we are going to be stuck at an awkward 7095 I do recall people saying in the chrome video that they got 95 out of 100 and that was just a quick little image rendering problem somewhere you're not really going to notice it in everyday browsing but there is something to notice that you're not going to get 100 out of 100 so like I said this is a much faster version of this browser I'm going to go ahead and exit out of it and actually bring a shortcut over to our desktop so you can see how fast it actually opens up so here we go three two one so it's actually pretty fast if you if you ask me it's not quite at the speed of Chrome but it's definitely going to force me to drop something like Firefox not to make any Firefox fans mad out there but that does take quite a bit longer to open than Internet Explorer and you got a admit that's that's something to look up to so if we go to YouTube the site that we might visit every day it's still not the fastest browser out there but you can tell it's got a whole lot more enhancements especially in the user interface side of things than Internet Explorer 8 so overall this is definitely a thumbs up if you want to go ahead and try this if you're still using an older version of Internet Explorer you can go ahead and upgrade to this beta you won't have any problems so this has been a quick little overview of Microsoft's latest attempt at a decent browser and I have to say they've done a much better job than I had anticipated but it's still not going to be bringing me off my trusty Google Chrome just throwing that out there all right so mkbhd here with a video review of Internet Explorer 9 beta talk to you guys in the next video signing out peace you