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Submitted: Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 16:42
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Why is that MS Explorer take 3 times as long to load web pages than Mozilla Firefox.
Its as slow as a wet week, not that many of us have experienced that of late.
Have always used MS Explorer, but lately it has been giving me the bleep s and after using Firefox, I think I am converted.
Reply By: dawesy - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 16:55
Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 16:55
Because it's crap, pure and simple. M$ don't produce good products, they make good business decisions.
I only use it for the odd site that isn't standards compliant and so requires me to use IE. Been that way for years. I was using Opera, but no Firefox has all the Opera features it was missing, and is so popular, I've moved to using it more.
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Reply By: 4wdNewbie - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 17:01
Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 17:01
From what I hear from my computer minded friends, MS Explorer attracts alot more spyware too. I have never been bothered with the switch (probably because I just grew used to MSE) but have used Mozilla once when a virus or something similar screwed up our internet explorer and I didn't really notice a difference.
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Reply By: Chris & Debbie - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 17:23
Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 17:23
I used to always used Firefox mainly because of the tabbed browsing but have now changed back to IE as I find it quite good now. To speed it up turn off the Phishing Filter, while this filter is good for improved security it slows browsing greatly.
Chris
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Reply By: Member - Olcoolone (SA) - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 17:27
Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 17:27
If you use MS IE7 you can go into system
tools and open IE7 up with out add on's, it's much quicker.
Regards Richard
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Reply By: DIO - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 10:04
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 10:04
Generally (I say generally) it has lots to do with the capacity of your OS (Operating System), RAM (Random Access Memory), what other applications happen to be running on your computer (often in the background) at the same time (Virus Checkers can be very demanding of your Processor and can really slow things down), your Internet Connection Speed and type (dial-up or Broadband), traffic on your service providers servers, inter-continnental connections and traffic demands, etc.
The problem that you are experiencing is nothing unusual for most people and probably has little to do with the Internet Browser Software that you are using.
As to WHICH browser, a bit like asking which is the best fridge, compressor, caravan, winch, tyres, oil, beer, etc etc. They are all designed to do 'the job' and it comes down to a matter of opinion and personal choice - often based on something someone else told you.
I suggest that you run all the maintennance programs relating to your OS (Defrag, Deleting TEMP files, browsing History, Cookies, etc) and by doing a bit of housekeeping it may (should) result in improved performance. REMEMBER it's the internet that you are talking about, not owned by anyone (in particualr) therefore many factors relating to performance, access, reliability etc come into play that are beyond the control of most users. We all have to live with fluctuating access speed at some time or other. Just make sure YOUR equipment is performing at it's best.
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Reply By: Skiddy - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 13:44
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 13:44
DIO,
cant agree with you on that one. Try running explorer and Firefox on the same computer and see which one is faster. And for the people who are worried about virus checkers slowwing your computer down, Go Mac :)
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