After the thread earlier in the week about IE 7 coming out, I downloaded a copy of Opera and Mozilla FireFox after reading about it here. I had just about decided I liked the layout of Opera the most of the three, but noticed it seemed to be taking longer then normal do download images. So I ran a speed test in all three, and noticed that Opera was timing at 2500KBits/Sec, FireFox timed in at 4573Kbits/Sec, and IE timed in at 5600KBits/Sec. I shutdown, and rebooted, and noticed the same differences between the three browsers again, aswell as tried a few different sites to clock the speed at. Anyone else noticed such a large disparity or have any idea why Opera would clock so slow compared to the others? I liked the layout, aswell as some of the tools, but obviously would not be willing to give up 50% of the speed to use it.

 

Funny, Opera is the fastest for me. Firefox is a close (very close) second and IE6 sucks my *****.

 

I noticed the same for Opera....nice browser but too slow for me. I still use FF but keep giving Opera try after try.

IE....not unless a site requires it.

 

I know Firefox and IE use different rendering engines, does Opera?

I used the extension faster fox for version 1.5 and it sped things up significantly. Last I checked it wasn't updated for 2.0 yet.

 

i use opera and firefox but for me opera is faster then firefox, but it depends opera is faster on my new computer, but firefox is faster on my older laptop...so maybe it has somthing to do with your computer?

 

That doesn't mean you can't make it work. The xpi file that you download for extensions is nothing but a zip file. Use something like winzip or powerarchiver to extract a file called install.rdf. Edit this file with notepad. Inside you will see a list of applications the extension will work with. Each application will have a minversion and a maxversion. Just edit the maxversion to say 2.5 for example and put the file back into the xpi zip file. Install the extension like you normally would if you downloaded it. I have done this with multiple extensions like Forecast Fox and others with no problems. Used them until an updated version comes out the "supports" the higher version of Firefox.

 

Right, or I could just wait until this significant addition has any quirks worked out. Have you tried it? I was thinking Fasterfox would change too many things to risk/hassle with trying. And since it's like the number four most popular download, it should get updated soon.

 

If you are talking about FF 2.0, I have been using it since beta 1 put out in late August. No problems whatsoever, and some features that make it nice. Can't say it is faster than 1.5, but in general I like it better.

Edit - Someone has already done the update for Fasterfox. You can find it here.

 

I installed 'FasterFox' over the weekend, which definately made a difference. I am now able to run FireFox at approximately the same speed as IE when running speed tests. It's ashamed that Opera still runs so slow (half the speed of IE/FireFox)... I think I like the layout itself of Opeara the most of the group.

 

sounds like my experience.....I LOVED the layout of Opera....but it was significantly slower than the other two.....not to mention so many sites I visity frequently do not render correctly with it......too bad.....

 

what sites dont work correctly, cause i havent found one yet lol

 

Gotta love dzervit

 

Bill browses a lot of ****....you might not want to go that route.

 

As a web developer. Firefox makes our apps look like ****.


I don't do the front end so I don't know if there is a way around it.

The formating gets very messed up.

 

that is what I meant.....thanks ncaissie.......