On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 06:55 -0400, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On 7/27/07, Peter Bindels wrote: > > On 27/07/07, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > > > And I still do not agree it is faster than IE under Windows. IE has > > > an edge under Windows in terms of speed and responsiveness. > > > > It has so much of an "edge" that my music freezes for a split second > > when I use it. > > I am not talking about all the bad things about IE. I am just tired of > people alway claiming that Firefox is faster/stable and that is not > true from my personal experiences. Faster? I'd say 50/50. There are pages that render much faster under firefox then IE, yet there are other situations where IE is much faster. On the whole, IE and firefox are pretty close in speed, on average. As for stability, without question Firefox wins. While firefox certainly crashes, and possibly more often the IE, when it DOES crash it has NEVER taken the system with it. And when it's restarted, it very helpfully allows you to automatically reopen every page you had open at the time of the crash as if the crash never happened. IE OTOH may crash less, but in almost every case a crashing IE takes a good chunk of the system with it. Often Explorer goes with IE, meaning all the task bar stuff disappears when Explorer restarts. That's on a good day, I've seen cases where IE crashing cases Explorer to crash and NOT respawn, leaving you with a windows system that is basically useless unless you reboot. > Under Linux I still use firefox... I agree, for Linux firefox is by far the best choice. Oddly firefox under Linux is far more stable then firefox under windows, to the point where I don't even recall the last time firefox has crashed under linux for me. TTYL -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist