"We were also a little underwhelmed by IE 6's performance in our speed tests. In one
of our tests, IE 6 outperformed IE 5.5 and Netscape 6.1. And IE 6 consistently
outperformed Netscape 6.1. However, IE 6 lagged behind its predecessor in almost every
other test--not by much, but we'd expect better performance from a major upgrade. "
http://www.cnet.com/software/0-3227883-8-6982030-3.html
These graphs show mozilla is only 2x-3x slower than IE5.5
http://www.cnet.com/software/0-3227883-8-6982030-6.html
-Steve
JTK wrote:
>
> Oddly enough, the world doesn't seem to be waiting for Mozilla.
> Download the competition here:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.htm
>
> Since Mozilla was at last count about 4x slower than IE5.5, and has
> gotten slightly slower since then, can somebody please rerun those
> numbers against IE6.0 and see how much worse off we are now? If those
> numbers have already been run, as I suspect they have been, could they
> please be published here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary R. Van Sickle