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FireFox 3.1 Leaves IE in the Dust

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-just-want-fewer-beachballs dept.

Anonymous writes "Granted, FireFox 3.1 is just a beta and IE 8 is also in beta, but it looks like Microsoft has some ground to make up when it comes to browser performance. Given that Mozilla appears to be on a much faster cycle than Microsoft with this stuff, it's also possible that it could increase the gap even more before IE 8 is GA, no?"

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  1. What's "GA"? by onion2k · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is "GA" a common abbreviation? I assume it's a contraction of "generally available", but I did think of, and discount, a few other possibilities first given it's used in conjunction with IE8;

    God Awful (too obvious)
    Grizzly Adams (not sure where the bad 80s drama comes into things)
    Ground to Air (IE could be a Weapon Of Markup Destruction..)
    Goatse Arse (Ass if you're American)
    Gabon (.ga is the country code for there..)
    Standards Non-compliant (using Microsoft Alphabet)

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    1. Re:What's "GA"? by rrhal · · Score: 4, Funny

      When Microsoft releases a product it goes from CTP (Community Technology preview) to RTM (Release to Manufactuing) to GA (Genuinely Assinine).

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    2. Re:What's "GA"? by alexj33 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hey man, don't mess with Grizzly Adams. IMHO, that show was just full of retro campy goodness. Plus, he has a full-grown pet bear waiting to attack.

    3. Re:What's "GA"? by Jesus_666 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Gold Alpha. Because soon the terms "alpha" and "beta" will have become so watered down that the difference between alpha, beta and gold becomes epsilon.

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  2. Re:And yet by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    Their speeds all suck next to lynx!

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  3. Re:Tired of Perma-Beta by argent · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, "Vista" gets you a free pass on bugs. "Beta" is the new "stable".

  4. Re:Benchmarks were versus IE7 ... by bonch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't worry, I'm sure we'll still get a bunch of uninformed posts from people who didn't read the article, talking about how they're not surprised Firefox 3.1 outperforms IE8 when IE8 wasn't benchmarked.

  5. Re:Simple Really by alexborges · · Score: 4, Funny

    They did say that IE was a basic building block of their product and that removing it would slow everything down and would make it suck.

    Imagine... a windows OS that sucks.

    Mind thrashing, ey?

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  6. Re:Simple Really by mfh · · Score: 5, Funny

    As for Google Chrome, it makes perfect sense to bind the user to the webmaster's control. After all, for many important things like e-mail, calendaring, and many more, that webmaster is probably Google. (After all, how many yahoo.com or live.com users would install a Google browser?) And Google loves it when you can't block their cookies or stop them from doing whatever they want to spy on you.

    This can't be true because Google said they would do no evil. Unless OH SH-

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  7. I won't use FF 3.1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm holding out for FIrefox 3.11 for Workgroups

  8. SilverLight Test? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where's the SilverLight test, huh? I bet IE wins that one..

  9. Re:And yet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Opera: An inconvenient browser

    Hey, if the truth is going to be modded flamebait, might as well make it flamebait. amirite?

  10. Georgia by pjt33 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think it's Georgia. Internally Microsoft doesn't use terms like "alpha" and "beta": a product starts in "Florida" and moves closer to Redmond, so "Washington" means "bug-free". When it reaches "Georgia", it's ready to ship.

  11. Re:And yet by nawcom · · Score: 5, Funny

    Re:And yet (Score:0, Redundant)
    Their speeds all suck next to lynx!

    Bah! you damn moderators can't accept the truth!

  12. Re:And yet by somersault · · Score: 5, Funny

    (actually, modding redundant implies that they had already accepted it)

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  13. Re:And yet by pbhj · · Score: 5, Funny

    When rendering a big scene here, Safari will do it in a fraction of the time using 60mb of RAM, whereas Firefox 3.1beta's memory usage spirals out of control and into swap space.

    Wow, 60 milli-bits of RAM, that's more than amazing!

  14. Re:And yet by LSD-OBS · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes but I have 1.21 jiggawhats of CPU

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  15. Re:And yet by operagost · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pfft. Coddled kids. In my day, we used to telnet to port 80, then render the page with pencil and paper-- and that's the way we liked it!

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  16. Re:And yet by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pshaw! Youngster. Your UID barely fits inside 16 bits. In _my_ day we had to whistle the 1's and 0's through an acoustic coupler!

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  17. Re:Simple Really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Actually, IE has many features that Firefox lacks. For example, IE does filebrowsing, gives you a taskbar, renders icons on the desktop, executes computer startup scripts, and many other things which you'd never ever want a webbrowser to do.

  18. Re:And yet by Doggabone · · Score: 2, Funny

    There is no spoon?

    Well then, we're forked.