[LINK] Firefox users shown to be safer ((but slower!))

[Rick Welykochy]

David Boxall wrote:

> <http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2220991/firefox-users-shown-safer>
> 
> "A new study has shown Firefox users are the most likely to have fully 
> patched browsers and thus be safer online.

That's the good news.

The bad news is that FF 3.0 runs *slower* on Mac OS X than the earlier
versios. I think it be bloated, mates. Safari is faster, but I still
prefer FF because of its stricter standards compliance and extra
features. (I have found many CSS bugs with Safari ... Apple?)

Heavy web users on Windows who know the ropes tell me that they find
IE much faster than FF and they are often frustrated by the latter
when it comes to speed and memory usage. One Web 2.0 developer I know
in California knows what he is talking about. The social networking
site he is developing hobbles along when using FF compared to IE.

The IE - FF differences on Windows are most likely due to several
things:

(a) Microsoft has privileged use of hidden APIs in Windows

(b) FF is one code base written for three vastly different platforms,
     which suffers the consequential lowest common denominator effects.


What have Linkers found? Is the new FF 3 slow and bloated?

cheers
rickw


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