Why are some sites so much faster in IE?

[ShawnD1]

I've mostly switched to Google Chrome for everything, but sites like Google Finance are slow as hell. This old laptop can't handle it in Chrome, but it's fine in IE. I end up using the IE Tab extension when Chrome is too slow, and it works almost every time. Why is this? IE and Opera seem to process flash objects quickly, but Chrome and Firefox bog down like crazy.
This also happens on pages that contain a lot of images. Chrome and Firefox bog down. Opera and IE work fine.

 

[Berryracer]

As much as I hate IE I am with you on this and feel the same way.

 

[mikeymikec]

It depends on what you mean by an 'old laptop', Chrome uses a lot more memory than IE, but assuming that there is enough memory, I mostly see a performance advantage for Chrome/FF over IE on older hardware (and by that I mean XP and XP-during-vista generation hardware).

I find Firefox on my own machine runs rings around every other PC I encounter in my line of work, but perhaps that's because of NoScript 🙂

 

[ShawnD1]

It's definitely a CPU issue because the CPU monitor shoots to 100% any time the mouse is over a Google Finance graph in Chrome. IE doesn't start using CPU power until I start moving the graph around.
The CPU is a Celeron 1600

 

[mikeymikec]

Ouch. Any extensions installed in Chrome?

How much memory is in that machine?

 

[ShawnD1]

memory is 2gb
Tons of extensions.

 

[mikeymikec]

Tons of extensions.

Not an accurate IE - Chrome comparison then.

 

[Dude111]

Alot has to do is what you have the MAX CONNECTIONS set to....

Im using IE and i have it set to 48 (IE default setting is 2 i believe) the most i have ever seen a server accept @ once is 20 connections however.....

See how many connections your browser is using here


http://spasche.net/files/parallel_connections


Most i have gotton on this server is 20 (Must be the max on THIS server)