I really have to wonder how much cpu speed comes into play. I run a
celeron 550 with win2k, and loading a web page in mozilla with more than
5 browser windows open is like pulling teeth. The worst part is that
all mozilla windows freeze up for a second or more if just one of them
is loading a page! IE6 and NS4 both look positively snappy compared. I
bet with a faster CPU the differences would shrink drastically.
Marc Attinasi wrote:
>
> 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
>>
> I guess you mean _Microsoft_ is not waiting for Mozilla. I would not
> really expect other browser manufacturers to stop producing product
> updates simply because Mozilla exists. From what I have been reading,
> nobody is really very thrilled by the IE6 release anyway - see, for
> example, the recent CNET review, including this cool jab:
>
> "*The bottom line:* If you already run IE, this minor upgrade will keep
> you up-to-date, but there's no need to upgrade immediately. If you're a
> Netscape 6.1 fan, don't bother to switch."
>
> (from
>
>http://www.cnet.com/software/0-3227883-8-6982030-1.html?tag=st.sw.8888.prmo.3227883-8-6982030-1
>
> )
>
> Personally, I find IE6 to be far inferior to their last Windows offering
> (IE5.5), though still quite usable.
>
>>
>>
>>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?
>>
> Mozilla does not seem to be much slower than IE6 in my daily web usage
> (and I often run a debug Mozilla build too). I think I might notice if
> it was FOUR TIMES slower . Do you really see IE6 working 4 times faster
> than Mozilla in your own personal experience?
>
> CNET's review of Netscape 6.1 (which performs on par with Mozilla)
> indicated that the performance nearly matched IE (referring to IE 5.5) -
> see for yourself at
> http://www.cnet.com/software/0-3227883-8-6804817-1.html?tag=more
>
>
> - marc
>
