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Guys i have something intresting to point out; i am using firefox 1.0 and IE 5 on suse 9.2 and IE is faster to start up even in wine. I ...
  1. 01-02-2005 #1
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    Firefox vs ie



    Guys i have something intresting to point out; i am using firefox 1.0 and IE 5 on suse 9.2 and IE is faster to start up even in wine.
    I cannot explain this phenomenon . Looks like it doesn't matter if IE is preloaded on windows it will still start up faster the firefox. Does anyone have a way to explain this.
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    Most likely all the holes in IE make it lighter and thus faster to bring up.
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    ha ha
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    i will definately choose firefox......
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    Don't really care how mch faster IE is, that sucker is not going on my system, especially Linux. I don't even use it under Windows. Firefox all the way...

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    i have recently downloaded all the security updates for internet explorer....seemed to be near to 60mb!it's like you download 4 times ie!very buggyyyyyy.........so FIREFOX4EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Even in windows it's firefox all the way, i now am gettin very few popups on my pc
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    definately firefox is an excellent browser...themes and other extensions make it special and fully configurable!!!
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    its because IE is integrated into explorer itself. therefore, when you run IE, half of it is already loaded into memory. :P
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    Quote Originally Posted by musasabi
    its because IE is integrated into explorer itself. therefore, when you run IE, half of it is already loaded into memory. :P
    exactly. try running a windows machine with IE uninstalled
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