I don't think I will ever really trust IE, I use Firefox... I downloaded Chrome and started messing with it... there is a cool feature that will give you the memory usage of all the browsers running on your PC... the one thing I noticed with this tool is that Chrome used less system resources then the other browsers.
http://lifehacker.com/5045164/google-chromes-full-list-of-special-about-pages
http://lifehacker.com/5045164/google-chromes-full-list-of-special-about-pages