rms01
join:2004-12-01
Salem, OH | I agree... I use all three, and I agree with the results overall. Opera is no question the fastest, but I think Firefox is much faster than IE... | |
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join:2004-03-03
Schiller Park, IL | FIREFOX! FireFox rocks over them all!!! | |
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BinaryXtreme
join:2004-04-20
Sparks, NV | I agree. Firefox is just so much faster than IE it's rediculous. I'll stick with Firefox! | |
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2 edits | Re: I agree... The thing that kills me about Firefox "speed", and is correctly identified in this nice article, is the cold start time. On the windows box, it took Firefox over twenty seconds to load the first time, vs. only 7 seconds for internet explorer.
I rarely notice rendering and script execution speed issues. I notice the load times more than anything else.
It does not surprise me at all that Opera is the speed demon of the group. It was extremely apparent how efficient their engine was a few years back when I was working with PDAs. Pocket IE on a Pocket PC was so slow, it was practically nearly useless with most real web pages, where Opera was able to render pages quite nicely on the Zaurus, despite it being a slower PDA. Unfortnately there aren't enough advantages and too many compatibility disadvantages for me to use it for my desktop.
At least the web standards are finally making it possible to create decent pages that work on all the browers. The popularity of third party browsers on a Windows is a great thing towards making the internet as a whole browser agnostic. It was a nightmare making nice sites that were compatible with IE 4 and Netscape 4. 
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FireFox cuts my upload speed in half Compared to IE
Are you referring to the Java BBR speed tests? That's not really a browser issue but a Java JVM issue. You are probably using the Microsoft JVM under IE, which I have also noticed results in better speed tests. But, those are just tests. It's extremely rare in real everyday use that you would be uploading something using a java applet as the speed tests do.
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The thing that kills me about Firefox "speed", and is correctly identified in this nice article, is the cold start time. On the windows box, it took Firefox over twenty seconds to load the first time, vs. only 7 seconds for internet explorer.
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On my modest but well tuned system -
Windows XP Pro
Athlon 1600+
512MB of DDR 2100
cable modem Firefox COLD START is ~9 secs.
IE COLD START is ~7 secs.
The homepage for both is »www.google.com
The target of the shortcut I use to start Firefox -
"%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" /Prefetch:1
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| Bananas
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join:2004-08-18
Santa Barbara, CA
| Maybe it has not occurred to you that windows loads the IE shell script on boot, meaning that IE is already primed and ready to go. Of course you would get faster start times if half of it is already running in the background. But what price for speed and what price for security? Me, i choose security and waiting a few more seconds aint gonna ruin my life. | |
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Nerdtalker
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join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
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| Re: I agree... said by Bananas  :Maybe it has not occurred to you that windows loads the IE shell script on boot, meaning that IE is already primed and ready to go. Exactly.
It'd be interesting to see these tests run again, this time with firefox prefetched as well:
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" /prefetch:1
Speeds load time up for me...
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DaMaGeINC
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Greenville, SC
clubs: | I like IE, cause it doesent take any time to load. Ive used Firefox, and it takes a few more seconds to load. I dont like to wait, so I dont use it. | |
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KSC519
join:2002-03-14
Chicago, IL
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| I've been using Opera exclusively since version 3.6 or so. For me, its always been a reliable and fast browser. I'm not obsessed with having the absolute fastest loading browser (Although I think opera wins here). Opera has the features and layout that I've become accustomed to. (I can no longer stand to have my Address or page bars at the top of the screen)And it has run on every GUI-enabled os I've ever used (Windows 3.11-xp, Linux, OS/2 Warp, and OSX).But it is all a matter of personal preference. There is no single ultimate web browser. Like what you will, but theres no reason to insult anyone else's choice in web browsing software (Except for AOL users, they latch onto that stuff like its crack)
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DaMaGeINC
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| Re: I agree... said by Automobili:
I don't really care what's technically "fastest." Firefox is just a better browser in my opinion. In reality, who can really perceive such small differences in "performance?"
When 1 program takes less that 1 second to load, and another takes 3 seconds. Thats enough to "perceive".
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join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ
| i find a page with lots of pictures scrolls smoother on my laptop with IE then Firefox. even on my high end gaming box FF will scroll a forum post with many screen shots a tad jerky compaired to IE. though im sure its some setting im missing in firefox for smooth scrolling pictures. On the other hand i wont use IE for any site i have never been to before because i know FF will not accidently download some gator scumware behind my back even though i run IE on Medium-High security.
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click_310
Eat my shorts
join:2002-12-06
Savannah, GA | Re: I agree... same here... Use firefox everywhere but scrolling is hard. There is a smooth scrolling extension for firefox. Never tried it though. | |
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