Quickest Web Browser

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Originally Posted by Cry Havoc

No no no no no.

Firefox 2 is MUCH slower than 3. In fact, that was the primary reason for 3.0's release, because FF was one of the slowest browsers online at that point. 3.0 made it one of the fastest, and subsequent betas to 3.0 have made it equal in speed to any browser.

Safari isn't bad, I just don't see what makes it better than FF or Chrome.

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The last few iterations of Firefox 2 have been a problem, but it's was still faster and less memory hungry than Firefox 3 (My experience, YMMV). As a matter of fact, Firefox 3 takes so fucking long to launch, I stopped using it altogether.

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Originally Posted by ElNono

The last few iterations of Firefox 2 have been a problem, but it's was still faster and less memory hungry than Firefox 3 (My experience, YMMV). As a matter of fact, Firefox 3 takes so fucking long to launch, I stopped using it altogether.

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Then you have something wrong with your system. Firefox 3 launches in less than a second for me. Firefox 2 could take 10-15 seconds.

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Originally Posted by Cry Havoc

Firefox 3 launches in less than a second for me.

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i find that extremely misleading and very fictitious.

you don't gotta lie to kick it.

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Originally Posted by koriwhat

i find that extremely misleading and very fictitious.

you don't gotta lie to kick it.

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Firefox launches in less than a second for me too *shrug*

I just tested mine... <1 second

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Originally Posted by ElNono

The last few iterations of Firefox 2 have been a problem, but it's was still faster and less memory hungry than Firefox 3 (My experience, YMMV). As a matter of fact, Firefox 3 takes so fucking long to launch, I stopped using it altogether.

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FF2 leaked memory like it's life depended on it. I don't think a single delete statement was used.

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Originally Posted by velik_m

FF2 leaked memory like it's life depended on it. I don't think a single delete statement was used.

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C++ :td

ok well i take that back cause my ff loads in like a second too... never tested its load time before. hmm...

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Originally Posted by koriwhat

i find that extremely misleading and very fictitious.

you don't gotta lie to kick it.

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Originally Posted by koriwhat

ok well i take that back cause my ff loads in like a second too... never tested its load time before. hmm...

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:lol

I'm not ripping on you or anything but you gotta admit that's pretty humorous. :lol

Also, holy crap Kori reads this forum! Always a surprise to see "new" faces in here.

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Originally Posted by velik_m

FF2 leaked memory like it's life depended on it. I don't think a single delete statement was used.

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>> Delete all free RAM

>> end

:king

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Originally Posted by velik_m

ff2 leaked memory like it's life depended on it. I don't think a single delete[] statement was used.

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FIFY... prob tons of delete statements that should have been delete[] s.

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Originally Posted by koriwhat

i find that extremely misleading and very fictitious.

you don't gotta lie to kick it.

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It takes less than a second for me too

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Originally Posted by koriwhat

ok well i take that back cause my ff loads in like a second too... never tested its load time before. hmm...

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Originally Posted by Cry Havoc

I'm not ripping on you or anything but you gotta admit that's pretty humorous. :lol

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I guess ragging on shit he's got no clue about is par for the course with koriwhat

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Originally Posted by MaNuMaNiAc

I guess ragging on shit he's got no clue about is par for the course with koriwhat

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i guess so. haha.

i just don't use ff much at all so i never realized how fast it loaded up on my mac at home. it still crashes from time to time on this brand new dell here at work and on my mac and that's the reason i don't care much for ff. it's a great browser when it works but i just prefer camino over it is all except on a pc where i use a combo of safari/ff.

My comment for Firefox 3 load time refers to the very first time you load the program after a reboot. Subsequent launches work fast because most of the dll's are cached already. There's a firefox pre-loader program you can install to mitigate this problem, but I hate to have to install and run extra stuff just for this, when other browsers simply don't have that problem.
On a Mac it's different, because dyld loads lazy symbols on demand, so you won't notice any lags at launch, even on the initial load.

^ :lol When I fired up the ol' compooter this morning and opened up FF I thought, "whoa, whoa, whoa... that took longer than a second. Egads, I'm going to have to go into that web browser thread and report this newly discovered information."

Which I never did. But I did notice it, so the explanation is a timely one.

But really, does anyone really care so much about their computing times that an extra half a second, once a day or so, makes that much of a difference? I don't. I'll stick with FF.