Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 05:53:40 01/04/05
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On January 04, 2005 at 06:56:31, George Tsavdaris wrote: > >>If you think the default FireFox is good, try out the MOOX builds. Not only are >>they faster in loading, but they also bring up websites just as quick as IE. > >Thanks for the MOOX builds link! > >I have 2 questions: In the download section of the MOOX builds for Firefox there >are these two EXE's: ---MozillaFirefox_1_0_RELEASE_M3.exe.torrent--- , >---MozillaFirefox_1_0_RELEASE_M3.exe---. >Do you know what is the first one EXE? (torrent) The first one is a simple way of MOOX to reduce his bandwidth costs by offering a torrent for users to download the exe file. There is no difference in the end exe. > > You say that this MOOX-build loads pages just as quick as IE. So from this we >can conclude that Firefox loads pages a little slower than IE. FireFox does more checks with a website for W3C compliancy . IE doesn't really check anything. It just loads what it is told to. That is why it is far less secure. > Well with my litle experience with Firefox 1.0 i find it to load pages, a lot >or a little faster than IE. Are you suggesting that this is only my feeling but >it's wrong? It really depends on the site. If the site conforms to W3C standards then FireFox loads it much faster than IE. If the site doesn't, or is made from an HTML editor that produces funky code, then it can be slower. The MOOX builds are optimized to open more connections to a site, called "pipe lining" to do all it's checks faster. Especially if a user has editted about:config to check for a new page everytime that user visits a site, or reduced the browser cache to zero. (Both of which I do) Peter
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