Firefox

BarTopDancer · 02-10-2005, 11:18 PM

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?

€uroMeinke · 02-10-2005, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

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.

blueerica · 02-10-2005, 11:35 PM

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.

Kevy Baby · 02-10-2005, 11:42 PM

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.

FEJ · 02-11-2005, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

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?

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.

CoasterMatt · 02-11-2005, 07:12 AM

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.

Betty · 02-11-2005, 07:43 AM

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

BarTopDancer · 02-11-2005, 10:11 AM

Thanks everyone!

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Originally Posted by ubergeek42

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.

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.

mousepod · 02-11-2005, 10:25 AM

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...

mhrc4 · 02-11-2005, 01:59 PM

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 )

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