Re: Mozilla/Firefox 1.5 is excellent!. Much better than IE...
- From: "Infosink" <info@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 17:37:43 -0500
MartyLK@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Actually Firefox gets fast as time goes by.
Yeah, once the webapge is down'aoded it's Fast!
It uses caching
technology that saves common parts of web pages so that the only
thing that needs loading is the new stuff in an updated web page.
IE has had that for years.
the more you use Firefox the faster it will become as long as you
don't clear the cache.
That's not the speed of FF, that's the speed of your harddrive.
I never had trouble with viruses while using IE6 and I used it with a
web accellerator.
No, if you use IE right you probably won't.
It was either use an accellerator or spend more
time doing house or yard work in between the loading of web pages! I
chose the accellerator over the work...for some lazy reason. :)
3rd party accelerators are "dubious". Probably slowed IE down setting you up
for this FF nonsense.
I haven't had need of the accellerator while using Firefox. As long
as I don't clear the cache it will always run swiftly.
I must mention that in addition to M/F's caching abilities I use an
extension called Fasterfox. I like it and it does what its name says:
makes M/F even that much faster. It isn't something you have to buy,
it's free for everyone and is listed on Mozilla's Extension site.
Again, IE has had caching for years. Nothing new.
Elle wrote:
Marty, how long have you been using Firefox now?
Too long.
I assembled a new computer, 512 Mbyte RAM, about a month
ago, loading also for the first time Win XP SP2. Either
immediately or within a few weeks, the slowness of IE was
noticeable compared to my old computer's Win ME, 128 Mbyte
RAM. It was painful. I had a lot of suggestions at the
windowsxp and alt.comp.hardware newsgroups. I plan to
explore most of them, but one I seized upon was to try
Firefox.
Wow. What a difference.
It was the Internet connection
I groups.googled, looking for an explanation or whether this
speed would continue. I did see one post that said the
user's Firefox browser slowed down a lot after a month. I
presume due to viruses. The theory seemed to be that viruses
are focused on IE, but there are plenty that go after
Firefox.
Yes, well viral exploits are a known Firefox problem
Great thread. I don't know much about browsers,
Obviously.
so this
helps.
Thanks.
.
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