Nice roundup here and here on browser benchmarks suggesting that Firefox and Chrome are 3-4 times faster than the recently released Internet Explorer 8 RC 1. Opera fares better against Firefox/Chrome, but is still signficantly slower.
Yeah, that open source model will never work.
Of course, I doubt speed is the primary reason most of us use Firefox. I do have one suggestion, however, that might at least get me to use Internet Explorer more than once a month — either bring MSN Search into the 21st century or switch the default to Google.
Every so often I leave Internet Explorer open in my second monitor and before I realize I’m doing it, I pop in a search term and hit submit. I swear to god I think Alta Vista gave better results back in 1998 than MSN does today. The gap between what Google gives me vs. what MSN Search gives is like the difference between Pong and Far Cry.
Not to mention MSN Search’s design aesthetic seems to have been lifted from spam sites.
Everything about the IE user experience is just awful from beginning to end above and beyond any speed issue.
The Javascript port of Wolfenstein works in Opera but not in the latest Firefox. In addition, the MathML formatter for Opera can display mlabeledtr but Firefox can’t.
Firefox SUCKS since they decided that they knew better what certificate is trustable and what is not!!! Haven’t even left a choice in 3.5.5 for selfsigned certs!!!!!!!
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Great points on browser performance gaps — the IE vs Firefox/Chrome speed difference really is staggering. On a completely unrelated but interesting note, I’ve been spending time with tools that help track regional disease outbreaks, like this interactive map tracking hantavirus case distributions globally, which reminds me how open-source collaboration drives innovation in unexpected fields too. Back on topic, MSN Search’s irrelevance in that era really did accelerate Firefox adoption more than benchmarks ever could.
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