Posted on 05/08/2011 2:33:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I am running XP, and certainly do not find IE even close to Firefox, and under Linux you would have to use it under WINE. Try Sea Monkey. And if you have an older PC, i think Linux Mint (i use the universal installer for legal issues) is better. http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=59
The problem for me is Firefox under XP. It is extremely slow to launch. I have looked at the add-ons — nothing obvious. Just seems like a lot of overhead to have Firefox if IE is as good.
It is hard for me to compare load times, as i usually have about 75 tabs to open in FF, but even though part of IE starts with Windows yet it takes about 20 seconds to load my Google home page when first starting, and sometimes hangs when opening pages. I use XP with 3GB ram, 2.8ghz Intel cpu.
And i rarely reboot my PC. Instead i just place it on Standby by pressing one shortcut key, and have it configured to do so automatically after a period of low cpu usage.
One purported fix for FF slow loading is to clean up the Java. See last post and link: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/735623 Think i will try it also. Run it before other programs.
Also try the latest Firefox (4).
See here for adding FF to start menu: http://www.knowledgesutra.com/forums/topic/39012-how-to-make-firefox-load-faster-known-firefox-tweaks/
Thanks.
Flash and Silverlight were always going to be gap measures until HTML/CSS inevitably caught up.
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