On 7/27/07, Herbert Graf <mailinglist3@farcite.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 06:55 -0400, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>

Ah thanks. This is exactly my experience!

Xiaofan
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