Seriously. It's fast becoming the XP Home of browsers. Too bad neither the fanboys nor the development team realizes this. It could've been a nice browser, smaller and faster than SeaMonkey. It lost its way around the time they renamed it "Firefox." Now it's just SeaMonkey with memory leaks (yeah yeah it's a feature) and an incomplete, annoying interface.
No, I don't care that I'll get modded down for criticizing Firefox.
For most users, speed is a minor issue as long as it's perceived to be fast enough. And response times from the distant website (not infrequently in the second+ range) typically swamps local things like redraw speed.
It matters, because frequently on Firefox opening more than 7 tabs at once means your CPU pegged on 100% and sometimes it even locks up the browser for a minute or so.
I'm still using Firefox since I'm lazy: all stored passwords and history and visited addresses and cookies... it's kinda making it hard for me to switch to Opera at once. But damn, the moment 0pera9 is out, I am switching.
Also the more I investigate the issue, the more IE7 seems a viable choice on Vista. IE was always a very fast browser (and noone gimme the crap about "preloaded" components because I do not mean startup times).
I'm a web developer and keep all sorts of browsers on my machine, but I didn't start using FF in favor of IE until IE started getting new "just visit the site and you're set" holes every week.
When IE is secured, and with the new improved standards support, I think I'll welcome IE again as my default browser.
I hope the developers said a big thank you to
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Timesprout
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Opera for all the ideas, and the lesson in what users actually like in UI design
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Re:Couple of questions
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ashayh
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Blame it on GTK. I use Firefox simultaneously, on similarly configured XP and Linux machines. They use the same monitor through a KVM switch. FF on Windows XP is lightning fast and dog slow on Linux (Fedora 5 GNOME for now).
While I applaud the efforts of people who worked hard on GIMP/GTK/GNOME and all related technologies, fact remains that they are dog slow on the same hardware when compared to Windows and QT.
On top of all this, most distros insist on making GNOME the default and KDE the bastard child.
That still makes KDE zippier and therefore more usable.
There are so many things wrong with GTK, the file open/save dialog and the utter wastage of whitespace are the first to come to mind.
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Firefox dumbed down again, film at 11.
Seriously. It's fast becoming the XP Home of browsers. Too bad neither the fanboys nor the development team realizes this. It could've been a nice browser, smaller and faster than SeaMonkey. It lost its way around the time they renamed it "Firefox." Now it's just SeaMonkey with memory leaks (yeah yeah it's a feature) and an incomplete, annoying interface.
No, I don't care that I'll get modded down for criticizing Firefox.
Slashdot - where to disagree, is to be a troll
For most users, speed is a minor issue as long as it's perceived to be fast enough. And response times from the distant website (not infrequently in the second+ range) typically swamps local things like redraw speed.
It matters, because frequently on Firefox opening more than 7 tabs at once means your CPU pegged on 100% and sometimes it even locks up the browser for a minute or so.
I'm still using Firefox since I'm lazy: all stored passwords and history and visited addresses and cookies... it's kinda making it hard for me to switch to Opera at once. But damn, the moment 0pera9 is out, I am switching.
Also the more I investigate the issue, the more IE7 seems a viable choice on Vista. IE was always a very fast browser (and noone gimme the crap about "preloaded" components because I do not mean startup times).
I'm a web developer and keep all sorts of browsers on my machine, but I didn't start using FF in favor of IE until IE started getting new "just visit the site and you're set" holes every week.
When IE is secured, and with the new improved standards support, I think I'll welcome IE again as my default browser.
Opera for all the ideas, and the lesson in what users actually like in UI design
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Blame it on GTK. I use Firefox simultaneously, on similarly configured XP and Linux machines. They use the same monitor through a KVM switch. FF on Windows XP is lightning fast and dog slow on Linux (Fedora 5 GNOME for now) .
While I applaud the efforts of people who worked hard on GIMP/GTK/GNOME and all related technologies, fact remains that they are dog slow on the same hardware when compared to Windows and QT.
On top of all this, most distros insist on making GNOME the default and KDE the bastard child. That still makes KDE zippier and therefore more usable.
There are so many things wrong with GTK, the file open/save dialog and the utter wastage of whitespace are the first to come to mind.