It's not because IE 9 is now near the top of the pack in one area, it's a contender for being the fastest browser all round.I notice the speed difference between Opera 11 and Chrome 10 and the rest of the pack clearly. Still, I'm happy for all IE users.
Isn't that entire race for being the fastest in JS performance a bit idiotic? It's all round performance that matters...
I personally use Opera, but I still enjoy Chrome. Too bad it's made (or in Chromium's case, funded) by Google, a company I don't like at all. I'll continue using Opera, a web browser that doesn't take up any more disk space than FF, despite having a built in torrent client, a far more polished interface and many other extra's.
Even better, Opera is the fastest browser on the market (okay, I fail to notice the difference with Chrome subjectively, but in Peacekeeper Opera leads by quite a margin).