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">oscillik@gmail.com</a>></span><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>simon is comparing windows FF to MSIE, shipped with windows7</div><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 class="h5"><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>
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</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>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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