IE Faster - Hate it more!

[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by harmor19

I wonder why that is. Maybe it's because the wealthiest company in the world makes it.


IE8 does load pages quicker than Firefox, even pages loaded from localhost. The downfall is trying to load IE when your CPU usage is high. For example if I'm using ConvertXToDVD and I try to load IE (which is set to Google IG) it'll bring up a white page and just sit there. If I try and do anything it'll crash. If I launch Firefox it'll take about ten seconds to load up but once it does it runs very smooth.

I find the opposite to be true actually. IE always loads quickly and easily on my machine. Firefox takes a long visible time. Doesn't matter what I am doing or what my CPU utilization is at. Maybe its an OS difference though. I use Vista Premium as my primary OS. Firefox still has an acknowledged memory leak in association with Flash as well. Who knows one day it might be fixed but now, I can't leave any tabs with Flash open or Firefox goes crazy and balloons to using over a gigabyte of RAM.

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Originally Posted by Gio~Logist

Yea, Google always nails the whole minimalistic approach to things. It's their signature touch. Well i'll still have my fingers crossed for a faster Firefox one day.

Yeah, its why outside technical circles, most people think their services suck except for a few quality ones. I guess they have a good niche with technical people though.