Poll: Firefox 3 Beta slower than Firefox 2?

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Jolly Roger wrote:

> In article , jeff wrote:
> > I rarely use FF 2 as is is much slower (imho) than Safari 3
>
> Firefox is certainly *not* much slower with AdBlock Plus loaded!!!
> Firefox + AdBlock Plus means the browser no longer waits for 99.9% of
> ads to load.
>
> Safari has no equivalent, so every page you load causes you to wait for
> ads to load as well.

Don't you block the main advertising sites like DoubleClick at the
router level?

I like the idea of AdBlock, but not enough to change to Firefox as my
main browser. I just use a user CSS file to block an extra bunch of
advertising. Probably not nearly as good as AdBlock, but enough that web
sites I see often don't annoy me.

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Eric Lindsay wrote:

> In article
> ,
> Jolly Roger wrote:
>
> > In article , jeff wrote:
> > > I rarely use FF 2 as is is much slower (imho) than Safari 3
> >
> > Firefox is certainly *not* much slower with AdBlock Plus loaded!!!
> > Firefox + AdBlock Plus means the browser no longer waits for 99.9% of
> > ads to load.
> >
> > Safari has no equivalent, so every page you load causes you to wait for
> > ads to load as well.
>
> Don't you block the main advertising sites like DoubleClick at the
> router level?

Nah. AdBlock Plus does just fine.

> I like the idea of AdBlock, but not enough to change to Firefox as my
> main browser. I just use a user CSS file to block an extra bunch of
> advertising. Probably not nearly as good as AdBlock, but enough that web
> sites I see often don't annoy me.

Personally, I don't see why anyone wouldn't like Firefox, but to each
his own. : )

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<jollyroger-08727D.21443915022008.TakeThisOut@earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.ne
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Jolly Roger wrote:

> Personally, I don't see why anyone wouldn't like Firefox, but to each
> his own. : )

In spite of all I have said!

Actually, to make it clear, I love FF. Let me give you an example
of something that is important to me but is unlikely to be
important to most Mac users (because most Mac users do not do my
kind of work):

I have an html file (very simple, just a tiny bit of mark up and
three references in the html to small images of colour blocks) in
Finder. I grab it with the mouse and drop it on the Safari icon
in the Dock. Safari opens the page without me being able to even
count to one sec. I do the same for FF (which is also *already*
open as an app as was Safari) and I can count to 6 before it
displays like Safari.

It is a minor but constant irritation. FF's extensions and web
standard far out weight these things. But they are not nothing!
It would be nice if there was one other being in this universe
who could see this. Do you know how lonely it is to suffer on
one's own?

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dorayme wrote:

> I have an html file (very simple, just a tiny bit of mark up and
> three references in the html to small images of colour blocks) in
> Finder. I grab it with the mouse and drop it on the Safari icon
> in the Dock. Safari opens the page without me being able to even
> count to one sec. I do the same for FF (which is also *already*
> open as an app as was Safari) and I can count to 6 before it
> displays like Safari.

Here, it's more like:

Safari: 1 second
Firefox: 2.5 seconds

I'm ok with this, to tell you the truth. When I work, I'm usually doing
2-4 things at once. So if I notice a lag anywhere, I click on the next
application I'm working with and do something there until the task is
done. I'm very used to working this way, so small lags in performance
just don't bother me much, because I rarely ever find myself sitting
idle staring at the screen waiting for something to finish.

> It is a minor but constant irritation. FF's extensions and web
> standard far out weight these things. But they are not nothing!
> It would be nice if there was one other being in this universe
> who could see this. Do you know how lonely it is to suffer on
> one's own?

Like you, I'd love for Firefox to be faster in this area, but I just
don't think this outweighs the other benefits of Firefox over Safari.
It's really about persona preference. I just happen to value Firefox's
features over Safari's simplicity and speed. YMMV.

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