Firefox

[wasp]

I have just switched over to Firefox and I'm findining it slower than IE.

Is it just me or is it normally like this? Its only another 5/10 seconds slower loading pages etc but enough to be noticible. My laptop only started slowing down after I changed and I'm sure its not my broadband....

Anyone else notice it...?

 

[Pippppin]

Deepnet (in my experience) is much better than either Firefox, or IE. I am also running a laptop

 

[ERA]

Im exactly the opposite just started using firefox 2 days ago, IE is pants and Firefox is far quicker and I have far less pop ups and spyware to deal with.

 

[wasp]

Strange. I may try deepnet as the slowness of firefox will get on my nerves soon.

 

[roguetrader]

I have read complaints about Firefox being slow, but I never noticed any problem on the PC I have it on, you may also want to try Opera
http://www.opera.com/download/
I use it on my main two computers and prefer it to Firefox, they're all much of a muchness really, when IE 7 appears I may go back to IE

 

[adrianallen99]

I have found that sometimes firefox doesn't end the processes properly, when you open/close windows and tabs, old processes are still running.

If it is running slow have a look at the processes, I usually just kill em and then reopen Firefox and it works okay then.

I do have lots of problems opening PDF files from firefox though

 

[Pippppin]

Except, my understanding is that IE is the least secure in terms of spyware etc, since most spyware is written for IE........

 

[roguetrader]

Except, my understanding is that IE is the least secure in terms of spyware etc, since most spyware is written for IE......

I'd say that make sense, if you are a hacker or spyware program writer then you are likely to invest your time in writing for the most popular browser out there, That is one of the reasons I chose Opera as my main browser, whilst it is gaining in popularity it is not moving nearly as fast as Firefox and it works as well as Firefox imo

 

[wasp]

I have tried Opera and deepnet and just little things about them I dodin't really like. Nothing in particular, just odd things but I quite like Firefox. The more I frequent sites the quicker they are actually working now. Which is nice.

 

[roguetrader]

Try this mate, can't vouch for it myself, and you might wanna visit Firefox forums first to see what they say about it.
http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1269/

 

[wasp]

Cheers Roguetrader that has sped it up quite a bit... At least as fast as IE used to be.