Firefox vs IE (speed)

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Wingznut

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I've never cared for Firefox in the past, but I downloaded Firefox today figuring that I'd check it out again and see if anything has changed.

The first thing I noticed is how slow things load compared to IE. I was particularly surprised, because I thought FF was supposed to be faster.

At any rate, I ran Speakeasy's speedtest several times and the results are pretty surprising.

With IE, I get:
  • Download Speed: 5007 kbps
  • Upload Speed: 1885 kbps
With FF, I get:
  • Download Speed: 4841 kbps
  • Upload Speed: 966 kbps
Now, the download speed is no big deal. I can run the test over and over and get 150kbps variation. But the upload speed is very surprising... It's consistantly 1/2 what I get with IE.

Any chance I'm missing something here?
 
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dnuggett

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Yep a good chance. You have a setting off somewhere in IE or something. My tests are consistently the same speeds.
 
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Wingznut

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Originally posted by: dnuggett
Yep a good chance. You have a setting off somewhere in IE or something. My tests are consistently the same speeds.
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I have no problem with IE... Firefox is what's slow for me and in those tests.
 
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Wingznut

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Originally posted by: LoKe
Numbers were identical for me, not even off by 1.
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Even still, now that I think about it... I doubt the upload speed has anything to do with the overall speed difference.

When downloading the pics.bbzzdd.com random page, the delay was waiting for images to load.

 
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Malak

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Originally posted by: Xyclone
Try Opera, it's much faster. ;)
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Testing the speed with speakeasy myself, I can say I found it odd. IE always showed higher upload too, but the download was always at least 1.5mb/s faster with Opera. IE couldn't get faster than 3.4mbps, while Opera was hitting 5.5mbps.
 
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Malak

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Originally posted by: CTho9305
Are you using the same version of Flash with both browsers?
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I wasn't aware it was possible to use different versions of flash on the same computer.
 
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dnuggett

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Originally posted by: Wingznut
Originally posted by: dnuggett
Yep a good chance. You have a setting off somewhere in IE or something. My tests are consistently the same speeds.
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I have no problem with IE... Firefox is what's slow for me and in those tests.
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Is Firefox slow or IE reporting incorrect #'s?
 
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Xyclone

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Originally posted by: Malak
Originally posted by: Xyclone
Try Opera, it's much faster. ;)
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Testing the speed with speakeasy myself, I can say I found it odd. IE always showed higher upload too, but the download was always at least 1.5mb/s faster with Opera. IE couldn't get faster than 3.4mbps, while Opera was hitting 5.5mbps.
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Good. You use Opera, right?
 
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n7

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IE loads up faster than FF, for sure.

If loading times for the browser actually bother you, there's always the IE shells, Avant Browser & Maxthon.

I like FF because of the extensions & customizability though.

Nothing beats adblock & gestures :)
 
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Wingznut

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Originally posted by: us3rnotfound
So get 2 raptors in striping mode and be done with it
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What does that have anything to do with FF being slower than IE???
 
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dnuggett

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Originally posted by: us3rnotfound
So get 2 raptors in striping mode and be done with it
/thread
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What? Why are you using geektalk when you obviously aren't a geek?
 
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