Firefox is too slow...

**djr33** · 09-21-2012, 01:32 PM

I'm not looking at all of them at once. It has to do with my browsing habits-- I usually open up every link on a forum at one time, then close the tabs as I get through them. That's one example. (I also have a bad habit of leaving tabs open, often for weeks a time, when I'm too busy to get to something but want to look at it or reply later.)
Well, at some point I should probably try Chrome.

**jscheuer1** · 09-21-2012, 05:37 PM

I've got 16 tabs in Opera right now, and that's fine.

**djr33** · 09-21-2012, 05:45 PM

Yeah, I'm not sure what it is. I have 18 open in FF, and it's fast.
But sometimes (I don't know why) it can slow things down, especially any sort of structural items, like opening a select in a form, or opening a new window.

**bernie1227** · 09-22-2012, 01:59 AM

Originally Posted by Beverleyh

I'm for Chrome too, and - dare I say it - IE9, but mainly because its the default one on my work PC. Its got better, but still not perfect... Maybe IE10 will have us all singing its praises (*cough*)

actually, ie10 is kinda nice

**james438** · 09-22-2012, 03:38 AM

From what I have heard ie10 has improved a lot with 9 and going into 10 as they become more standards compliant.

**bernie1227** · 09-22-2012, 09:32 AM

I have ie10

**Beverleyh** · 09-22-2012, 09:52 AM

I only have IE10 dev plugged into IETester but I don't really see a great deal of difference between it and 9. I wonder how it will fare once its out in the real world - guess we'll find out later this year. Or maybe the middle of next year will be a better indicator once its been filtered out in the mainstream auto-updates? Can't beat everyday users for 'inventive' bug-discovery.

**jscheuer1** · 09-22-2012, 04:04 PM

Well, they really broke the mold to a great extent before making IE 9, resulting in a very much improved browser. I anticipate 10 to be more of the same. Too bad they can't update 8 with some of the common sense standards of 9. I mean, for XP users, they can't use 9, so they really need to use Chrome, Opera, or the Fox, etc. Perhaps an IE 9 for XP . . . But I doubt that will happen.

And it's really not all that important to me. I think it would be a smart move on MS's part. But the longer they wait, the less value it will have to them or to anyone.

**djr33** · 11-11-2012, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by mlegg

Have you tried this yet?
http://waytobliss.blogspot.com/2012/...out-3-30x.html

Y'know... that actually works really well. I finally had a little time to try this without worrying about whether the browser would be stable, but luckily nothing bad happened so I didn't need to reinstall it or anything (I've been using it for about an hour now without trouble, but I'll post back here if something does come up).

Now FF is going as fast as I could expect. It still seems to have slight delays for processing reasons (eg, opening a new window), but the pages load must faster-- basically it makes the requests simultaneous instead of in a sequence.

Interestingly, I think this basically fixes FF for those who don't like it because it's slow. I'd guess Chrome (and other "fast" browsers) use similar methods.