On 7/27/07, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On 7/27/07, Herbert Graf 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! Oops, hit the send button too fast. Thanks a lot for the fair observation and I agree with you that when IE crashes things is not as good. What I mentioned "stability" was more based on the chance of crashes. I think they are on par. Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist