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Favorite Web Browsers

Favorite Brower(s)

  • Internet Explorer

    Votes: 14 9.7%
  • Safari

    Votes: 9 6.3%
  • Mozilla Firefox

    Votes: 102 70.8%
  • Google Chrome

    Votes: 36 25.0%
  • Opera

    Votes: 33 22.9%
  • Avant Browser

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • Konqueror

    Votes: 2 1.4%
  • Lynx

    Votes: 4 2.8%
  • Maxthon

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • AOL Explorer

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • Netscape

    Votes: 6 4.2%
  • Flock

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • K-Meleon

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • Other (Please State)

    Votes: 6 4.2%

  • Total voters
    144
There is a very noticeable difference between Firefox 3.0.11 and 3.5. 3.5 Uses a new javascript engine that is much faster.

Double the speed from 0.2 seconds to 0.1 seconds for javascript, when javacript performance is comprises a minority of site loading time isn't very noticeable.

Firefox 3.5 is indeed a lot faster than 3.0. I benchmarked both myself and noticed a respectable increase

without visiting benchmarking sites.
 
Double the speed from 0.2 seconds to 0.1 seconds for javascript, when javacript performance is comprises a minority of site loading time isn't very noticeable.

more like triple performance from 3 seconds to 1. ( or better)
 
more like triple performance from 3 seconds to 1. ( or better)

From Mozilla.com:

Firefox 3: 3,669 ms
Firefox 3.5: 1,524 ms!

That's more like double.

In any case, you missed my point, most sites I visit don't take 3 seconds in total to load, the majority of which is DNS resolving and downloading, not javascript execution.
 
I do like 3.5 It's very good. Also, with this release, IE's market share has dropped below 60%! Hooray!
 
Opera is the browser is for me. I never like how for the Firefox you needed to download all the plugs.
 
From Mozilla.com:

Firefox 3: 3,669 ms
Firefox 3.5: 1,524 ms!

That's more like double.

In any case, you missed my point, most sites I visit don't take 3 seconds in total to load, the majority of which is DNS resolving and downloading, not javascript execution.
3669ms for what?

And I think you missed mine. Browser speed is not objective completely, due to the difference in sites people visit. I did not notice much of a speed difference on google.com for instance, on the other hand, CFC loads 3 times faster now. As I am sitting on my laptop, which still has 3.0.11, I can tell the difference from my desktop.
So, whether its the new JS engine, or something else, Firefox 3.5 is, and here's the key phrase: imho, much faster than 3.0.11.

Why hooray?

Because IE, in most of its iterations, has been and is a crappy browser. Again, imho.
 
3669ms for what?

A javascript benchmark, it says on the firefox page.

And I think you missed mine. Browser speed is not objective completely, due to the difference in sites people visit. I did not notice much of a speed difference on google.com for instance, on the other hand, CFC loads 3 times faster now. As I am sitting on my laptop, which still has 3.0.11, I can tell the difference from my desktop.
So, whether its the new JS engine, or something else, Firefox 3.5 is, and here's the key phrase: imho, much faster than 3.0.11.

Civfanatics.com takes about 3 seconds in total to load for me on a relatively slow computer. It loads in about 3 seconds in all of my browsers.

Javascript execution is a very small part of the loading time for pages. It's like making a car that accelerates to the speed limit twice as fast as the previous model. Sure, it saves you a bit of time, but it doesn't help where the real bottlenecks are.

Because IE, in most of its iterations, has been and is a crappy browser. Again, imho.

IE8 is more or less on par with the other major browsers.
 
It is amazing how much people hate IE on this forum here and how many people here use Firefox. If only the same was the case for the rest of the users of the Internet.

Maybe it only seems that way. For one thing, more than a few people out there think that microsoft owns the internet. Not only does this make them a poor survey candidate but I don't see microsoft running to set them straight. In fact, it could be argued that they orchestrated matters this way.

So it may be an issue of microsofts attitude....and not even necessarily one of hatred, but one of priorities.
 
I'd like IE more if it had tabbed browsing, flash/ad blocking, mouse gestures, spell checking and a bunch of other stuff natively rather than having to download a 3rd party app for it. Of course, FF isn't much better. You can spend way to much time sifting through their addons until you find something useful.

Firefox ain't all that. And I'm not impressed with 3.5.
 
Yeah, now. And with IEPro it's more along the lines of what I'd like in a browser.

But I'm stuck on IE6 at work because GE is a big pile of stinking doo, and can't get their software to work with 7 or 8. :shake:
 
It seems that Firefox 3.5 uses massive amounts of Memory. I left it running on my computer for much of today and I found that is was using about 1.4GB of Ram. Normally 3.0 would use less than 100MB, so I restarted it and it was about 78MB and now it is nearly 200MB and that is less than 30minutes. :eek:
 
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