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

[Richard Chirgwin]

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. 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?
On Linux, I haven't noticed slowness. On Windows XP, FF 3 is a horror.

Some **** decided that what the world really needs is a heap of nifty 
symbols in the URL selection, so if you start typing www.g it doesn't 
just offer Google as a choice, it loads the damn Google symbol, which 
means the bar has to wait to load the **** symbol image ...

Using the menu (not me, a kid who just doesn't get Ctl-T for new tab) is 
likewise dreadful: click on the menu, and it takes perceptable seconds 
to populate the area with the menu items. What deadbeat manages to stuff 
up the menus in a piece of software to such a degree.

Thankfully I don't have to suffer the Windoze behaviours, being a smug 
Linux user ...

(When I broke the screen on the Linux box last week, I found another 
reason to like Linux. When I had to record a podcast on a borrowed Mac, 
it suffered a horrible memory problem at about 15 minutes, rendering the 
audio unusable. Audacity + Mac is bad news. On an underpowered Linux 
lappie, no problems.)

RC
>
>  cheers rickw
>
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