IE 9 Beta... Is technology never satisfies?

When I heard that Microsoft plans to launch the Internet Explorer 9 browser with multiple improvements in features, user interface, speed acceleration, security and many more, I got really excited and downloaded IE9 PP5. And I am not alone in this browser war because there are already in excess of 2.5 million downloads of the IE9 Beta browser when it was in developer preview mode, namely not really a full browser.

After trying IE9 PP5 I found following features at a glance.

• It is very fast startup and shutdown to allow more browsing time.
• Quick navigation to favorite sites from the Windows 7 taskbar i.e. Site Pinning and not required to launch IE9. Instead, specific websites can be pinned to the taskbar just as any other application in Windows 7.
• Resumes incomplete download after restarting feature which is already available in FireFox.
• Popular sites list similar to Chrome.
• Web address is integrated with search similar to Chrome.
• Simplified menu with neat and clean UI just like Chrome.
• Enhanced Back button, the Address Bar and the default search field.
• Tested Speed Reading demo application and the results really awesome. It took 48ms in IE 9 and 988ms in Chrome.
• Tested Videos from MSNBC and it was amazingly fast compare to Chrome and FireFox.
• New alert system to manage performance of the browser.
• Book mark all the current open tabs to favorites.

In addition to the above Microsoft is claiming following features and many more in their blogs and sites.

• IE9 offers consistent, fully hardware-accelerated text, graphics, and media, both audio and video.
• Test your site in IE9 Standards Mode. This mode provides the best performance and interoperability and will offer additional benefits in the IE9.
• Take advantage of HTML5, CSS3, SVG, DOM, ES5, improved JavaScript engine, and more.
• Windows integration, with this integration spans from under-the-hood security mitigations such as the UAC and hardware acceleration through DirectX 11 APIs, favorite websites will be launched straight from the Windows Taskbar.

Notably, IE9 is amazingly fast compared to its previous versions of Internet Explorer and they always seemed slow when compared to Google's Chrome. My first look at IE9 shows better than the Google Chrome (habitually I used).

Whoever the browser market leader between Microsoft IE, Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome, when technology not satisfies then evaluation takes place and war continues.