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Browsers and site performance, IE v7 and Firefox v2| Clouser |
Posted: May 25 2007, 11:03 PM
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 No need to learn to spell Putrifino.  Group: Admin Posts: 841 Member No.: 1 Joined: 13-February 06  |
I recently reloaded my internet facing system and tried to just use one browser to conserve space on the C:/ drive. The problem was that the more I used this site with IE v7, the slower it ran. I continued to determine if the problem would go away without intervention and to determine just how bad it would get. Well, it got bad. It was taking a full minute to display a single page after selecting a forum link.
I just loaded Firefox v2 and things are moving along nicely. Has anyone else had this experience? |
 
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| RayEdmondson |
Posted: May 26 2007, 05:14 PM
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 Falcon Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 502 Member No.: 23 Joined: 16-March 06 |
It's loading ok, but there is a slight delay when typing and when using the scroll wheel on my mouse. I use Firefox, but thought I'd try it with IE7 and I am seeing a slight delay.
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| RayEdmondson |
Posted: May 26 2007, 05:16 PM
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Falcon Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 502 Member No.: 23 Joined: 16-March 06 |
I'm doing this reply with Firefox and the delay is no where as noticeable as it was in IE. I would stick with Firefox if I was you.
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| MLibid |
Posted: May 26 2007, 06:05 PM
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Falcon Sentinel  Group: Moderator Posts: 324 Member No.: 123 Joined: 27-November 06 |
I wouldn't be surprised. Compared to Firefox, Internet Explorer looks like an inexperienced, cheap browser that you would find only by clicking spam banners.
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| RayEdmondson |
Posted: May 26 2007, 09:17 PM
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Falcon Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 502 Member No.: 23 Joined: 16-March 06 |
So very, very true....All Microsoft did with IE7 was imitate Firefox's tabbed browsing...Other than that, it's still a hunk of junk... --------------------
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| SoCalFalconFan |
Posted: Jun 5 2007, 10:53 PM
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 Falcon Ranger Group: Members Posts: 33 Member No.: 118 Joined: 15-November 06 |
In my experience, Firefox blows IE's doors off. I use it exclusively.
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| Rickus25 |
Posted: Jun 7 2007, 09:37 AM
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 I'm what Willis was talking about.. Group: Members Posts: 1,221 Member No.: 68 Joined: 3-August 06 |
I always use Firefox, IE 7 is a dog. I used it for a week and it is a slower rip-off of Firefox.
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| BreadSlicer |
Posted: Jun 7 2007, 11:12 AM
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 The Cunning Linguist Group: Members Posts: 4,625 Member No.: 11 Joined: 19-February 06 |
Both FF and IE7 have memory leaks but IE7's is much nastier. IE7 is also using the Phishing filter which also slightly degrades performance but it can be disabled.
All in all FF has less overhead and is thus leaner and quicker but it's still an IE world out there... I've actually experienced problems with FF not loading all the graphics from FL and tried it in IE7 and it work OK but that's the exception not the rule. FF and IE7 just handle their cache differently. Personally I am 90% FF but as I mentioned there are some situations that you have to use IE with. --------------------  |
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| BigManChili |
Posted: Jun 7 2007, 12:11 PM
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 The Linguistic Dreadnaught Group: Global-Mods Posts: 3,262 Member No.: 29 Joined: 6-April 06 |
And for those, I have a plug-in for Firefox that can load pages with the IE engine, but do it in a Firefox tab. -------------------- 
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| RayEdmondson |
Posted: Jun 12 2007, 10:58 AM
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Falcon Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 502 Member No.: 23 Joined: 16-March 06 |
What's the name of the plug-in???? I'd like to download it....Thanks...  --------------------
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| BigManChili |
Posted: Jan 15 2008, 04:58 PM
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The Linguistic Dreadnaught Group: Global-Mods Posts: 3,262 Member No.: 29 Joined: 6-April 06 |
IE Tab. Sorry I never saw this until now. I never looked at this forum, because there's no Falcons stuff up here. I just happened to be doing some "spring cleaning", and noticed this thread with the unanswered question to me in it. --------------------
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