Internet Explorer 8 is released to public. I installed recent beta’s of IE 8 and I had some problems with it. Before I installed IE 8 I run one test which I will share below. The result is promising ;-). 10%+ less memory usage by IE 8 when comparing same websites opened in IE 7.

I personally would suggest that everyone using Windows should upgrade Internet Explorer to version 8.

Why should you upgrade? The new, improved Windows Internet Explorer 8 can help make your everyday browsing experiences – searching, communicating, shopping, reading news – easier, faster, and safer.

Accelerators
Enhanced navigation (Compatibility View, Enhanced Tabbed Browsing,Better Find On Page ,Smarter Address Bar, etc.)
Increased performance
Improved favorites and history management (Enhanced Favorites Bar, One Click Favorites, RSS feeds on Favorites bar)
Instant search
Web Slices

IE 7.0 and 4 websites

73MB of Ram

IE 8.0 and 4 websites

Well my CSS and header is broken for Networknet.nl

But running the 4 sites with IE 8 they consume 13MB less memory. I will fix my header 😉 Click here to download IE 8.