At work I recently upgraded from IE8 to IE9. It has not been a positive experience. A number of the key web application we use fail to work properly in IE9. Additionally, I found that IE was now crashing and needing to be restarted at least every half hour.
A colleague pointed me to this article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2528233
Microsoft states "Hardware acceleration is a new feature in Internet Explorer 9 that lets Internet Explorer move all graphics and text rendering from the CPU to the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)."
I appreciate the efforts to improve the performance of the world's slowest browser, but my work machine, with no need for movies or games, was obviously under-powered in the graphics department. Turning off the hardware acceleration (as detailed below) has stopped IE from crashing all the time. But I am finding myself using Chrome for the web applications (where possible) - so that they will work properly.
It looks like Microsoft's non-standard browser legacy continues.
How to remedy the crashing issue:
1. Select "Internet options" from the Settings (cog) menu on the right hand side.
2. On the "Advanced" tab, check the "Use software rendering..." check box and Apply.
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