![]() However, what makes Firefox so much faster on rich web-based apps (AJAX, DHTML) is that its JavaScript interepreter and the DOM manipulation are about 6-10 times faster than IE’s. “There are many haunting problems with both browsers like memory leaks and memory bloating. But, I know it’s not something people will be used to. One of the things that I disliked about firefox and safari is that i’m browsing and open a link in a new tab and it opens way to the end of the stack - out of context from where I was. And new tabs spawned from a page open directly to the right of the original tab. It might be easier to pick from a dropdown where you can read the name rather than a 20px wide tab when the bar is full. I believe they brought a solid effort on the user experience (not tooting my own horn…yet).ġ) The start up page with settings is a nice touch, great way to introduce new features/settings without some silly flash tutorial.Ģ) Quick tabs, simple and elegant way to get a visual of your open tabs without over gadgetizing it.ģ) Tabbed browsing implementation (now tooting own horn): scrolling and the dropdown with the list of tabs is something that we thought would be better when you’ve got 20 or 30 tabs open. I just loaded it tonight and haven’t had many issues so far. So, my #1 wish for IE8 is already “more speed please.” Both times Firefox noticeably beat IE7 on completing the page load. I set both browsers home page to TechMeme. That might demonstrate that Web 2 sites might need to do some homework to get their sites to be performant in both IE7 and Firefox.īy the way, I just did a little “start up test” of both browsers. I wonder what the difference in AJAX calls are between the two mapping sites. On, though, both browsers behaved almost exactly the same (both were fast). Firefox 2 is a LOT faster on AJAX (dragging the map around feels a lot better on Firefox 2). ![]() UPDATE: I just went to Google Maps with both browsers too. I haven’t yet visited enough sites with both browsers to know whether this is a single site problem, or an experience that I’ll have overall, but Firefox 2 does seem faster. To be fair, Google is probably pushing the browser in all sorts of ways, even the MSN team decided to back off on its use of AJAX due to speed problems, though ( used to have an infinite scroll capability, which I really loved but they got rid of it after speed complaints came in). It seems to hang whenever new stuff is being downloaded in the background via AJAX. IE7 is frustratingly slow on Google Reader. I’m also using the new Firefox 2 and Firefox is a LOT faster. ![]() Most notably for me, Google Reader (that’s now my most used Web site because I’m reading all my feeds there and building my link blog with it). Beast being Microsoft.īut IE7 does have some challenges ahead of it. Chris Messina, who used to work on Flock (an open source browser based on the same code that runs Firefox), says the beast has woken up. ![]()
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