Was it just me or is IE faster than Firefox at the moment???

[Klaw117]

I'm not sure about this since I use Google Chrome now and not Firefox. I wouldn't be surprised though. Firefox seems to be more for customization than actual speed.

Im using FF 3.6.8 at the moment, I distrust IE after that whole hacking thing.
I also have Google chrome installed as a backup browser. In my experience, ive always found chrome to launch faster and to load webpages slightly faster. But again, usage is tracked by google, so i only use it if i have to.

Google does track your usage, but I don't think they can identify you with it as long as you don't allow check the box that says to send usage statistics to Google. If you do check that, then you send statistics that can identify you. If you don't check it, then you only send information that can't identify you.

 

[A Guy]

I'm not sure about this since I use Google Chrome now and not Firefox. I wouldn't be surprised though. Firefox seems to be more for customization than actual speed.

Im using FF 3.6.8 at the moment, I distrust IE after that whole hacking thing.
I also have Google chrome installed as a backup browser. In my experience, ive always found chrome to launch faster and to load webpages slightly faster. But again, usage is tracked by google, so i only use it if i have to.

Google does track your usage, but I don't think they can identify you with it as long as you don't allow check the box that says to send usage statistics to Google. If you do check that, then you send statistics that can identify you. If you don't check it, then you only send information that can't identify you.

You can use Unchrome:

Unchrome

A Guy

 

[splinter701]

thanks for that, nice program

 

[sarveshtiwari30]

hi

for ur computer's sefty .................

new firefox beta hvae viruse in it

i think that u should not use firefox beta

if u wanna to use firefox......
u need to use firefox of version 3.5.1.......

thank u its for u computer's sefty ...........

 

[splinter701]

How do you know that the FF4 beta has/is a virus?
Did something happen to your computer?

 

[win7clutz]

hi

for ur computer's sefty .................

new firefox beta hvae viruse in it

i think that u should not use firefox beta

if u wanna to use firefox......
u need to use firefox of version 3.5.1.......

thank u its for u computer's sefty ...........

Nonsense..

 

[A Guy]

hi

for ur computer's sefty .................

new firefox beta hvae viruse in it

i think that u should not use firefox beta

if u wanna to use firefox......
u need to use firefox of version 3.5.1.......

thank u its for u computer's sefty ...........

I don't think FF beta has a virus in it. Where did you download from? A Guy

 

[Azuremein]

It always seemed to me that Firefox was a little bit faster than all the other browsers, but nothing noticeable really... maybe a millisecond or so. The only reason I like Mozilla so much is that it's open source. I like a lot of the add-ons and themes you can get.

 

[Jester45]

i use chrome because IE (any version) has had a lot of security problems. Please don't attack me because of that statement, i believe it to be true only because of it's market share or that most non-techies run it because it is built in. And is also often behind the other browsers in rendering pages correctly.

Also there are many projects that use chrome's source but remove the user tracking. i use personally use chromeplus

 

[Sammy888]

Ditto, Firefox is slow. About 5-10 seconds to load while IE 8 less than 2 seconds.

 

[cv7713]

I have to agree with the OP... I'm typically a Firefox guy, but IE8 is definately loading faster for me than FF at the moment. I can click to launch FF and then click IE and IE8 will be waiting at the home page for me while FF is still loading. Benchmarks aside.... that's my experience!

 

[Snowdog]

Ditto, Firefox is slow. About 5-10 seconds to load while IE 8 less than 2 seconds.

Guys you are talking about actually loading the browser the first time? Well of course IE loads faster, it is partially preloaded by Microsoft as part of the OS. It has always been that way.

But heck. I just leave it run for hours and load it once. Once it is loaded it is much faster browser than IE. IE is the slowest browser for running just about anything.

If fast launch is a big deal for you, you can use Firefox Preloader so it will do the same thing as IE.

Firefox Preloader | Download Firefox Preloader software for free at SourceForge.net

 

[Richardc269]

I never liked IE myself. I've been a Firefox user for years. The one thing I never really liked about IE is that it takes roughly 3 seconds for it to stop loading a page when you click the "stop" button, whereas Firefox does it right on the spot instead. Firefox has on general, loaded pages faster than IE from what I've seen.