ie faster than mozilla?!

[Crappopotamus]

deviantart has been really slow for me the last little while. i figured it was just because they were doing server upgrades. however, today, i was using my friends ie computer, and loaded up devart... it was MUCH faster!! how come? ive come to love mozilla's tabs and tab bookmarks and nicer bookmarking system... but why is it slower? is it slower on all sites? im going to have to try it... when i switched to mozilla, i noticed it was slightly faster than ie. maybe its time to check again?

 

[konichiwa]

Try FireBird

 

[EyeMWing]

I wanna know what rock you're hittin on man. Your friend probably had a better connection.

 

[sash1]

Firebird >>> IE

 

[Heisenberg]

In the impromtu test I just did, they both loaded the page at about the same speed.

 

[Turkish]

Firebird, the Pontiac?

IE owns it all...
stick with IE.

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: Xiety
Firebird, the Pontiac?

IE owns it all...
stick with IE.

owns all at suckage

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: Adul

Originally posted by: Xiety
Firebird, the Pontiac?

IE owns it all...
stick with IE.

owns all at suckage

lol


i like both...IE seems more convenient...

firebird for its innovative features

I can't tell the speeds btwn the two however...

donno..if i can surf the web w/ it..fine w/ me

 

[konichiwa]

Firebird has nice features plus I find that for the most part it's faster than IE. Tabbed browsing, ad and popup blocking, not to mention hundreds of extensions and themes.

 

[dighn]

i've been using firebird for a month or two now and i can say with confidence that ie is definitely faster. mozilla is really slow on certain web pages and it is often slow when another web page is being loaded/displayed

 

[Twista]

Originally posted by: Xiety
Firebird, the Pontiac?

IE owns it all...
stick with IE.

 

[Crappopotamus]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I wanna know what rock you're hittin on man. Your friend probably had a better connection.

no no. sorry i didnt clarify... this is at school. identical connection, computers are right next to each other. my computer is actually faster...

 

[Crappopotamus]

bump? da is still horribly slow. the images load so slowly. :|

 

[dighn]

oh yeah. on certain web sites like supernova, mozilla takes 100% cpu usage and freezes for about 10 seconds.

but the extra features and the peace of mind (because ie exploits are discovered all the time) is worth it

 

[xEDIT409]

one question...

opera > firebird/mozilla ?

 

[BatmanNate]

I use both Firebird and IE at home. IE owns speedwise for load times and pages with large quantities of graphics (like Fark PS contests for instance) however Firebird is faster for the forums. (although I am using that CSS script which kills the ads and the space on the left)

 

[Pacfanweb]

I don't see a dime's worth of difference in speed between the two.

 

[Anubis]

ill agree here for deviant art IE is fastest i have no idea why. its faster then both opera and FB for me for some reason

 

[Tetsuo]

deviantart is ALWAYS slow

 

[schdaddy]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
I use both Firebird and IE at home. IE owns speedwise for load times and pages with large quantities of graphics (like Fark PS contests for instance) however Firebird is faster for the forums. (although I am using that CSS script which kills the ads and the space on the left)

that 10k CSS script kicks ass - thanks for mentioning it

 

[Tetsuo]

Originally posted by: schdaddy

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
I use both Firebird and IE at home. IE owns speedwise for load times and pages with large quantities of graphics (like Fark PS contests for instance) however Firebird is faster for the forums. (although I am using that CSS script which kills the ads and the space on the left)

that 10k CSS script kicks ass - thanks for mentioning it

Where can I get that?

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: schdaddy
that 10k CSS script kicks ass

Yes, it's nice.

I also have it filtering out the "roll eyes" emoticon (hate it).

 

[theNEOone]

your friend might have a ram drive set up, i have that on my computers and it noticeably increases browsing speeds


=|

 

[Sophia]

Originally posted by: Tetsuo

Originally posted by: schdaddy

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
I use both Firebird and IE at home. IE owns speedwise for load times and pages with large quantities of graphics (like Fark PS contests for instance) however Firebird is faster for the forums. (although I am using that CSS script which kills the ads and the space on the left)

that 10k CSS script kicks ass - thanks for mentioning it

Where can I get that?

Is this it?

 

[Tetsuo]

Originally posted by: Sophia

Originally posted by: Tetsuo

Originally posted by: schdaddy

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
I use both Firebird and IE at home. IE owns speedwise for load times and pages with large quantities of graphics (like Fark PS contests for instance) however Firebird is faster for the forums. (although I am using that CSS script which kills the ads and the space on the left)

that 10k CSS script kicks ass - thanks for mentioning it

Where can I get that?

Is this it?

No I got adblocker, I still have that side bar


edit: had a w after no

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