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Thursday, 9 September 2004
Made the switch
After being frustrated with mozilla 7.2 not having a spell checker (for forms) anymore, I finally made the move to firefox. Then I installed spellbound and the Noia 2.0 theme. It's only been about 5 minutes, but I think that I like it. It actually does seem faster, but maybe it's all in my head. Either way, I can spell check things again. (and my browser seems mac-like, which is a strange feeling).
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Firefox is definitely faster, especially to start up.
ReplyDeleteProbably just a smaller memory footprint... is it faster loading pages too?
ReplyDeletePage loads are pretty much dependant on connection speed. I'm pretty sure that's where the bottleneck happens for most people, even if you are on highspeed.
ReplyDeleteI'd have to agree with Kibbee on this one. But you could do a test with a page that has a more complex layout (like espn.com) in both Mozilla and Firefox (make sure caching is on for both and load cached copies to test "rendering" speed. Both browsers use the Gecko rendering engine, so it's unlikely there's much of a difference. Maybe Firefox uses an optimized version of Gecko? I dunno.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot of factors. Maybe because FireFox has a smaller footprint, your computer has more free resources so it can run everything faster, including the renderer.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of which, I just switched to XFce destop manager, which is a serious speed increase over Gnome on my pII 266