[LINK] RFC: Web 2.0

[Eleanor Lister]

Kim Holburn wrote:
> On 2006/Nov/24, at 2:32 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 01:19:58PM +1100, Kim Holburn wrote:
>>> I don't find JS makes sites slow in fact quite the opposite.
>>
>> read what i wrote again. it's not the SITE that is slow, it is the
>> fact that JS makes firefox slow that is the problem. this is an
>> easily observable and repeatable phenomenon: disable javascript (e.g.
>> using NoScript). browse various sites. the browser will be fast and
>> responsive, e.g. when switching tabs/windows. now go to any site that
>> makes heavy use of javascript and enable JS. watch the browser instantly
>> slow to a crawl.
>
> Isn't firefox the slowest browser?  I saw a comparison recently and 
> firefox came out the worst of the major browsers.

FF v1.* was pretty slow, but v2.0 is quite nippy

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