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Aloone_Jonez:
http://www.browserdiscussions.com/showthread.php?tid=77


--- Quote ---The Staff at http://www.antifirefox.com have decided to change the direction of the site to improve discussion quality and site traffic. The old 'IE vs. FF' theme is going to be scrapped for an all inclusive 'Browser Discussion' theme. The ultimate goal of the change is to create browser awareness (not just for two specific browsers), and to provide a strong community able to help out each other or visitors with answers to any questions that may be asked.

We do not know how long until the changes are completed and apologize of any inconvenience the changes may cause.

Mr.Safety
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They must've changed their mind!  :)

Aloone_Jonez:
Someone in another forum I post in has had problems with IE so I recommended FireFox.

jtpenrod:
Mostly Firefox, with Moze a close second. I used to use Galeon a lot until Phoenix came out. I also had Opera for awhile (Mandrake 8.1) since, at that time, it seemed to do printing hard copy the best. Now, that's not a factor anymore, and so I don't have Opera anymore.

Although Dillo is also quite useful for implementing things like on-line dictionaries and program help.

Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: MrX ---Aloone_Jonez:

concerned about start times? then get your friken but using Opera 8 beta 2. its the fastest loading webbrowser out of all of any. even older opera versions. and its freaky fast.

Mr X
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I haven't had any problems with the start speed and if it's a problem you can use a pre-fetch function (at the expense of some memory) to make it load faster. I have tried opera too and while it has some nice features and the zoom function is very good, I do find it a bit slow, and this goes for both rendering and start speed, but I haven't tried the beta I currently have 7.54u2.

The person in this other forum found FireFox slower than IE on his shitty 333MHz machine, but I've found it faster than IE on all of the hardware I've used it on.

Kintaro:
Firefox blows loads of speedy load all over IE on older boxes, I used to run a 200MMX for one purpose, to play Wolf3D, it had Win95. I installed IE 6.0 on it (which I hear is impossible, but it seemed to work okay for me), which was really really slow at loading, it took around 3-4 minutes, which is nearly as slow as Mr X's wit. Firefox loaded on it in just under a minute, which actually suprised me, I thought they would be about the same. However Installing IE 6 downloaded like 110mb of shit, firefox was less then 10mb I think, cant remember.

Firefox is pretty good on an older machine, once its running, problem is it does use a lot of ram, that I dislike about it, however its fine on my laptop. I would also wish that they would change there makefiles or the SRPM specfile (probably the later) so I can build it for athlon.

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