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

[Darryl (Dassa) Lynch]

link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au wrote:
|| David Boxall wrote:
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|| <http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2220991/firefox-users-shown-safer>
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||| "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?
 
For one particular browser application at work Firefox 3 is around 60%
faster than IE7, this is heavily Web 2.0 and Java based.  Print format for
pages in FF3 isn't too good however but that may be more of a configuration
issue, I haven't checked as yet.  Overall I find FF3 a lot better and use it
90% of the time.

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch