firefox V explorer

codax · Jul 15, 2004

Ive heard so many of you how much better firefox is but when i tried 0.9
it was slower than explorer i tried a few site most noticable was www.overclockers.co.uk just for testing i deleted all temp internet files and loaded the page on each browser and the pictuers took longer to load on firefox where as explore was almost instant
whys this?
i have a 1mb connection

Turd Furguson · Jul 15, 2004

Firefox is still in BETA form. There are a few kinks to still be worked out but if you would take a little time to read our Firefox Tweak thread you may be able to optimize it for more speed.

deeman · Jul 15, 2004

ya i found enabling pipelining helped considerably

snafumaster · Jul 15, 2004

I'm not a speed demon, but I didn't think it was too much slower. I will try enabling pipelining though.

David · Jul 15, 2004

Firefox isn't noticably faster or slower than IE for me, I just like it cos of tabbed browsing

Cant live without it now!

codax · Jul 15, 2004

tried the tweaks but coudnt find pipelining option still finding eplorer faster ?

nocturnal714 · Jul 15, 2004

i also like the fact that their are no popups and its not a haven for hackers like ie is.

Calculusaurus · Jul 15, 2004

nocturnal714 said:
i also like the fact that their are no popups and its not a haven for hackers like ie is.

Agreed. This is reason enough to use firefox, slow speed or no.

However, Firefox is just as fast as IE for me, so FF > IE all the way :thup:

nocturnal714 · Jul 15, 2004

Calculusaurus said:
Agreed. This is reason enough to use firefox, slow speed or no.

However, Firefox is just as fast as IE for me, so FF > IE all the way

right on brotha! :attn:

Drec · Jul 15, 2004

FF p\/\/nz j00... :clap:

but in all seriousness i notice no speed diffrences between the two.

nocturnal714 · Jul 15, 2004

neither do i and it has much better features such as the tabbed windows like someone else said here. it makes life so much easier

Enablingwolf · Jul 15, 2004

I hope everyone has their security updates from here:
http://mozilla.org/security/shell.html

Leviathan41 · Jul 16, 2004

I notice the difference in speed. Have you guys done this? ---> http://www.computerbb.org/about150.html

Firefox is better than IE in every way, IMO. I thought it was funny that Firefox issued the fix the same day the security problem was found, yet Microsoft takes their sweet time to patch things.

Calculusaurus · Jul 16, 2004

Leviathan41 said:
I notice the difference in speed. Have you guys done this? ---> http://www.computerbb.org/about150.html

People kept mentioning the "pipelining tweak", but I never knew what it was until now. Pages load a little faster now

snafumaster · Jul 16, 2004

Leviathan41 said:
I notice the difference in speed. Have you guys done this? ---> http://www.computerbb.org/about150.html

Firefox is better than IE in every way, IMO. I thought it was funny that Firefox issued the fix the same day the security problem was found, yet Microsoft takes their sweet time to patch things.

Wow, I had my reservations as to whether I'd notice a difference...Oh My
:thup:

Thank you!

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