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 )

You do know what Steve your company computer guy would say if you told him that your browser seems slow don't cha?

MOOOVE!!!!!!!!

Firefox rocks and if people would use HTML correctly to its own standards and not bow down before the bloat code bohemoth that is MS when making sites it would be even more apparent.

Perhaps GD could get over his irrational fear of tabbed browsing and bench test them head to head.

that or cop out and get objective third party test results using (bleech) IE to search probably. Pffffffft.

BTW - its not HTML that needs to be coded correctly slick, its things like ASP and ASPX and VB that when used in web browsers, that does not agree with FireFox. That is Mozilla's problem, not the problem of the site designer.

Yes i will agree that there might be a small percentage of HTML code that could throw off firefox, but that is rare, the problem lies with their ability to display MS designed code in ASP or ASPX.

Not really. It's the problem of Microsoft, as usual, ignoring the concept of standards and encouraging people to code using MS-specific techniques. It shouldn't matter which browser you're using if the coding is done to standards. But once you start introducing proprietary stuff in, it makes compatability an issue. And it shouldn't be Mozilla's job to reverse engineer proprietary MS coding, it should be site designers' job to make their sites compliant with the open standard.

MS designed their code to work idelly with their browser. What is the problem with that? I never heard there were global standards to NEW CODING LANGUAGES that are developed. W3C standards and the rest apply to existing languages, this is a language MS built from scratch. their language, their browser.....

Firefox came after-the-fact as a 3rd party browser, they want their stuff to work on ASPX sites, then they need to figure out how to make aspx work on thier platform.

What people dont realize is that firefox is one of many alternative browsers out there, but it is built on the framework of Mozilla, whereas there are other browsers out there that use the IE engine, and re-design its shell to add things like plug-ins and tabbed browsing, but they dont get the press that FireFox does.