Firefox
 

I just installed firefox and it seems a lot slower than IE. The pages scroll slower. Is this the norm or a fluke or am I just imagining things?

Clearly you are delusional haveing set your fox on fire.

I don't know if it's supposed to do that.

I know TS uses his, but I generally don't (I love my Safari far too much)... I'll ask, but I highly doubt it's supposed to be slow.

I've never eaten there myself, but some have said the food is OK and the service is good.

Oh, I thought we were talking about the Foxfire restaurant.

Remember you have been using IE for a while, so a lot of the regular pages you go to are cached already. It could be that it is slower because it is filling the cache and installing cookies. Give it a few days and see how it runs.

I've been watching Firefox every time it shows up on HDNet; there's nothing like seeing Clint Eastwood steal a fighter jet from those darn Russkies.

I use it and IE. I notice no difference in speed between them.

Thanks everyone!

Good point. I did import my cookies, history and favorites over there so I figured it wouldn't need too. But I don't think it transfered everything. The lag time was really noticable when I was scrolling down on a site.

I'll give it a week and see how it goes.

Wish I could compare FF to IE, except that Microsoft hasn't updated the Mac OS version of IE for years.
It is faster than Safari, but having seen the upcoming [Tiger] version of Safari, I'm reserving final judgement...

well, it might depend on the site you are browsing too, sometimes forums in firefox tend to slow the browser down a bit, with loading all the images and the advertisements. Try it out, play with the options for cookie and cache retention, also do a google for "speeding up firefox" - they built in a nice way to edit how firefox runs (hint - type about: config in your browser )