Firefox vs IE performance

[esskay]

Sorry if this is old news, but holy crap when did Firefox become a DOG, and IE get blazing fast?! I switched to FF a couple years ago because it was so much more responsive than IE (besides other nice features). But FF has become so sluggish esp with many windows open. And I went to try IE again (which had also updated itself) and it's much faster, like how FF used to be compared to IE!

[M198]

Shhhhhh! You can't admire a Microsoft product. You'll bring down the wrath of the Apple and Linux snobs. Dude, Safari/Firefox/Opera is so much better! Acctually, i do prefer Firefox becasue of it's genreal layout and add-ons. IE8 is pretty solid though.

[spitter3]

Sounds more like a hardware issue, when was the last time you defragged? They are both as speedy as your internet connection is, at least that's my experience.

[bigmike82]

FF 3.5.3 has been the biggest sack of crap on my Centrino laptop. It's been horrifically buggy, slow and laggy.

IE 6 and IE 8 both out performed it.

Which saddens me. I like firefox. I really do.

[whobob]

Something is wrong with your PC if IE is out performing Firefox. http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/index.action

[bigmike82]

Yeah, I don't have a billion gigs of RAM to devote to FF.

On a machine I had 16 gigs of RAM, I couldn't tell the difference.

[spitter3]

FF 3.5.3 has been the biggest sack of crap on my Centrino laptop. It's been horrifically buggy, slow and laggy.

IE 6 and IE 8 both out performed it.

Which saddens me. I like firefox. I really do.

My daughters netbook does fine with it??? Only slightly slower then my desktop.

[phish]

try Safari

[Darklyte27]

I also have had problems with the new Firefox.
its also been crashing with Flash too all the time. I also made a thread about it if you look. alot of people have been complaining about it too on firefox fourms etc. i just hope they hurry and fix it.

[StarJunor]

I love fire fox. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) I never have any problems and never use IE.

[stomper4x4]

try Safari

Last I heard, safari had more security vulnerabilities than any other browser, with FF close behind.

I've been liking Chrome lately, though it's far from perfect, and I need FF plugins sometimes. Chrome has plugins now, but not many yet.

[JDay]

Chrome is faster than both.

[esskay]

I also have had problems with the new Firefox.
its also been crashing with Flash too all the time. I also made a thread about it if you look. alot of people have been complaining about it too on firefox fourms etc. i just hope they hurry and fix it.

Googling around, I did find a number of complaints about the latest version of Firefox esp with many windows open (as well, a number of people talking about how the new IE has gotten much faster/better)...And of course others positing the exact opposite! ...

I did read some arguments about IE8/Chrome being faster due to multi-threading capability and Firefox 3.5 either having or not having multi-threading...

FWIW, this is on a ultraportable laptop but is relatively new and does have an SSD so it's pretty responsive with most productivity applications.
Intel Core 2 Duo ULV SU9400 (1.40GHz)
3 GB RAM
128GB SSD

[calixt0]

i recently switched to FF and love it. my biggest dislike with IE was that with vista I couldn't set a webemail as my default. I hated having to open two windows instead of just clicking an email link.

[spitter3]

Googling around, I did find a number of complaints about the latest version of Firefox esp with many windows open (as well, a number of people talking about how the new IE has gotten much faster/better)...And of course others positing the exact opposite! ...

I did read some arguments about IE8/Chrome being faster due to multi-threading capability and Firefox 3.5 either having or not having multi-threading...

FWIW, this is on a ultraportable laptop but is relatively new and does have an SSD so it's pretty responsive with most productivity applications.
Intel Core 2 Duo ULV SU9400 (1.40GHz)
3 GB RAM
128GB SSD

Ah, so it is a hardware issue, classic ssd mlc stuttering, IE will soon be following ff in its slow down. Have you done anything to limit small writes to the ssd??