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

Kim Holburn kim.holburn at gmail.com
Tue Jul 8 16:49:28 AEST 2008


On 2008/Jul/08, at 3:56 AM, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> 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.

That's strange.  I have been using FF2 and FF3 side by side for  
several months now and there is little comparison.  FF3 is much faster  
and has little problem with history unlike FF2 which was unusable.   
It's memoery handling is much better too.

If you include addblockplus and noscript how could FF not be faster  
than other browsers: you're not downloading all those ads, scripts etc.

> Safari is faster,

Yes, in general.  Of course if the website is on a slower connection  
and there are lots of ads, it's slower.

> but I still
> prefer FF because of its stricter standards compliance and extra
> features. (I have found many CSS bugs with Safari ... Apple?)

If only websites were standards compliant.  I find I often have to use  
Safari because the website doesn't work well with FF.  SMH video is an  
example: works fine in Safari, just doesn't work in FF on a Mac.

> 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?


I was asked by friends the other day why their computer and in  
particular IE was so slow.  I installed FF and it ran considerably  
faster.  After I had removed all the "extra" toolbars that had somehow  
got themselves installed in IE it still ran quite a bit slower than IE.

So no FF3 is faster.


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