Well I can assure you that the difference is *very* noticeable, on both a high end computer and a "standard" spec EeePC.<div><br></div><div>I have Windows XP Pro on my desktop, along with Crunchbang 9.04.1 (which is based upon Ubuntu 9.04) and on my EeePC i have recently ditched Crunchbang 9.04.01 in favour of Windows XP mainly because of problems with audio and video, but also because Chrome is just more responsive and faster when running under Windows than it is as Chromium under a GNU/Linux distro.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I would prefer to have stuck with Crunchbang, as I much prefer to use a Linux based system. However the shortcomings have made me turn back to Windows....for now. I'll be keeping a keen eye on how it all fares in the following months, and maybe (hopefully) I can get rid of Windows again.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Until then, I'll be using whatever is the best solution for me, and at the moment that is Windows XP.</div><div><br></div><div>I would highly advise you to install Windows (not in a vm) and actually try out some of the browser offerings and do some day-to-day tasks on there. Benchmarks are like statistics - always bullshit. That goes for computer gaming benchmarks too (don't even get me started on those!)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/5 Vladimir <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vladimir.jakubovskij@gmail.com">vladimir.jakubovskij@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
i can't check this myself, as my gentoo desktop's (running ff) benchmarks are way better then the<div>ones i find online. this is probably due to my optimizations flags. and i don't have windows. </div><div>but the online search shows not <i>that</i> significant differences. yes, i agree, this is the problem that should be addressed. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/5 oscillik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oscillik@gmail.com" target="_blank">oscillik@gmail.com</a>></span><div class="im"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Sorry, I have to agree with Simon on this with regards to any web browers' speed running under a Linux based system.<div><br></div><div>I've used Firefox (3.0 and 3.5.2), Opera (v9 and 10), Midori (can't remember version number) and Chromium. FIrefox is terribly slow compared to the Windows version of Firefox.</div>
</blockquote><div> </div></div><div>simon is comparing windows FF to MSIE, shipped with windows7</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>The only browser that seems to perform anywhere near it's Windows counterpart is Chromium. And even then, its still not as good.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And this is running under Ubuntu.<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/5 Vladimir <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vladimir.jakubovskij@gmail.com" target="_blank">vladimir.jakubovskij@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/5 Simon Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon.johnson@gmail.com" target="_blank">simon.johnson@gmail.com</a>></span><div>
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<blockquote style="border-left:#ccc 1px solid;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hi all,<br><br>Iceweasel was mentioned at the last meeting and there seems to be a<br>continuing meme that the browser is somehow behind Firefox and was<br>
branched off from on an old version (I shall mention no names as to<br>where this meme resides ;-) </blockquote>
<div> </div>
</div><div>One of the things that really lets desktop Linux down is the browser experience. </div></div></blockquote></div><div>what? Opera, Chrome and Firefox are far more superior browsers to MSIE.</div><div>superior in security, page rendering speeds, general usability, etc. </div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>It was so bad that I ditched my Debian install and went to Windows 7.</div></div></blockquote>
</div><div>install debian, then apt-get install firefox. job done. </div><div>firefox is the fastest growing browser in the world. </div><div>is your bald statement suggesting that millions of lemmings are wrong (<a href="http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp" target="_blank">http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp</a>)</div>
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<div>The browser is probably the single most important application in a modern operating environment*. Yet Debian has just about the worst browser of any modern OE.</div></div></blockquote><div> </div></div><div>use firefox then. </div>
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<div>The Windows version of Firefox is much more stable and requires fewer megabytes of memory than the Linux version.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>numbers, please!</div><div>they r not that significant.</div>
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<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote">
<div>It uses less memory, it's faster, and has many features that are included as standard that would require extensions in Firefox.</div></div></blockquote></div><div>what is wrong with using extensions? </div><div>
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<div>It's sad, because I enjoyed every <em>other</em> part of the Linux. But Linux without a half decent browser is practically useless.</div></div></blockquote></div><div>calling Opera and Firefox (and soon, Chrome) <i>even not a half decent browser</i> is at least stupid (no offence)</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>vladimir</div></font></div>
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