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04 Aug 2011, 11:16 pm

I have Iceweasel 5 on my Debian install, and Firefox 5 on my Winblows partition and they both do this on occasion. I noticed that it got worse after I installed the FoxyProxy extension - which I promptly removed and that made it much better, but it's still glitchy at times. There is no way I will use Chromium or Chrome. I really hope whatever causes it gets fixed soon, because it's fecking annoying.



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04 Aug 2011, 11:28 pm

I think it's hilarious how people argue over the speed of web browsers. There's no noticeable difference whatsoever between IE, Firefox, and Chrome. The speed of the browser isn't where the bottleneck is. The bottleneck is the download bandwidth and ping, in other words, the quality of the internet connection.


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05 Aug 2011, 5:37 am

SammichEater wrote:
I think it's hilarious how people argue over the speed of web browsers. There's no noticeable difference whatsoever between IE, Firefox, and Chrome. The speed of the browser isn't where the bottleneck is. The bottleneck is the download bandwidth and ping, in other words, the quality of the internet connection.


Total trash!

Yes obviously a faster connection will make your browsing faster but what about page rendering times? FireFox renders images AS they load while ie WAITS for ALL the images to download before rendering them. This is obviously a completely different approach that DOES effect page load times. Then we have things like memory management. Ie and FireFox like to put all their data in one process while Chrome likes to put data from each task/tab in a seperate process thus allowing the OS to swap some less used data/memory when resources get tight while not compromising your browsing speeds.

Then we have html5, which is much better supported by geko and webkit (ff, Chrome) which will allow your browser low level access to your hardware. Which will make browsing EVEN faster.



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05 Aug 2011, 5:47 am

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Go take the acid 3 test on ie. You'll then see why ie is slower. It doesn't conform to modern web specifications. Well tbh it never did, its overuse allowed ms to ignore open web specifications and adopt there own closed, buggy, virus ridden methods. I'm glad those days are over.

Ie is as slow and buggy as ever...



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05 Aug 2011, 4:32 pm

Firefox 5 is dreadful. I've seen loads of people online complaining about it.
I uninstalled Firefox 5 and re-installed version 3.1.



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05 Aug 2011, 9:10 pm

Tom_Kakes wrote:
SammichEater wrote:
I think it's hilarious how people argue over the speed of web browsers. There's no noticeable difference whatsoever between IE, Firefox, and Chrome. The speed of the browser isn't where the bottleneck is. The bottleneck is the download bandwidth and ping, in other words, the quality of the internet connection.


Total trash!

Yes obviously a faster connection will make your browsing faster but what about page rendering times? FireFox renders images AS they load while ie WAITS for ALL the images to download before rendering them. This is obviously a completely different approach that DOES effect page load times. Then we have things like memory management. Ie and FireFox like to put all their data in one process while Chrome likes to put data from each task/tab in a seperate process thus allowing the OS to swap some less used data/memory when resources get tight while not compromising your browsing speeds.

Then we have html5, which is much better supported by geko and webkit (ff, Chrome) which will allow your browser low level access to your hardware. Which will make browsing EVEN faster.


Well, I haven't noticed. Rendering images takes almost no time at all in comparison to waiting for them to download.


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06 Aug 2011, 9:24 am

My latest issue/problem with Firefox is in its not always finding a server after I click on a link ... but then "Try Again" or whatever makes it work the second time around.


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06 Aug 2011, 9:54 am

SammichEater wrote:
Tom_Kakes wrote:
SammichEater wrote:
I think it's hilarious how people argue over the speed of web browsers. There's no noticeable difference whatsoever between IE, Firefox, and Chrome. The speed of the browser isn't where the bottleneck is. The bottleneck is the download bandwidth and ping, in other words, the quality of the internet connection.


Total trash!

Yes obviously a faster connection will make your browsing faster but what about page rendering times? FireFox renders images AS they load while ie WAITS for ALL the images to download before rendering them. This is obviously a completely different approach that DOES effect page load times. Then we have things like memory management. Ie and FireFox like to put all their data in one process while Chrome likes to put data from each task/tab in a seperate process thus allowing the OS to swap some less used data/memory when resources get tight while not compromising your browsing speeds.

Then we have html5, which is much better supported by geko and webkit (ff, Chrome) which will allow your browser low level access to your hardware. Which will make browsing EVEN faster.


Well, I haven't noticed. Rendering images takes almost no time at all in comparison to waiting for them to download.


Open 10 tabs with content filled sites in ie. Browse around, switch tabs etc. Then close ie and do the same in Chrome. Note the difference.

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