there are a lot of other factors involved with a car
i know firefox has better mpg, but IE kills everything off the line Greenlit fucked around with this message on 09-13-2009 at 04:07 AM.
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Gadani needs to learn to type:
But the argument about your cars doesn't really apply to web browsers. Like Maradon said, it loads a page a couple tenths of a second faster, at best.A more accurate "fast car/slow car" analogy would be this: Someone has a car with a maximum speed of 100 miles per hour. This person already has this car. If he wanted to, he could drive to the next city over and obtain a car (for free) whose maximum speed is 100.1 miles per hour. Why would he do that when he already has the 100 mph car? Most people just aren't interested in that extra 0.1 miles per hour.
Yes because firefox and chrome are only .1% faster than ie.
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Peanut butter ass Shaq Blindy. booooze lime pole over bench lick:
Yes because firefox and chrome are only .1% faster than ie.
That is actually the case, though.
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Maradon! likes to say stupid stuff like:
That is actually the case, though.
Not really, no. more like 20-40% faster depending on how much javascript is involved.
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Blindy. who doth quote:
Not really, no. more like 20-40% faster depending on how much javascript is involved.
You're talking about a difference between 0.7 seconds and 0.21 seconds. The difference is so minor that even in aggregate it amounts to very little more than a different feeling. People aren't sitting around waiting for their pages to load in MSIE.
I don't understand why you just can't get around the idea that other people might not value the same things in a web browser that you do.
I'm not even joking.
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Channeling the spirit of Sherlock Holmes, Maradon! absently fondled Watson and proclaimed:
You're talking about a difference between 0.7 seconds and 0.21 seconds. The difference is so minor that even in aggregate it amounts to very little more than a different feeling. People aren't sitting around waiting for their pages to load in MSIE.I don't understand why you just can't get around the idea that other people might not value the same things in a web browser that you do.
Just for fun, I downloaded Chrome and did a little local test. There is no difference; the biggest factor for me is a slow internet connection. The browser is irrelevant in terms of wait times.
And I really hate Chrome's interface.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Check out the big brain on Bloodsage:
Just for fun, I downloaded Chrome and did a little local test. There is no difference; the biggest factor for me is a slow internet connection. The browser is irrelevant in terms of wait times.And I really hate Chrome's interface.
What exactly did you test?
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Channeling the spirit of Sherlock Holmes, Blindy absently fondled Watson and proclaimed:
What exactly did you test?
Browsing the intarweb, using the handful of sites on which I spend the most time.
Except for the icky interface, there was abosulutely no difference.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Loosely translated, Bloodsage says "Kill the whales":
Browsing the intarweb, using the handful of sites on which I spend the most time.Except for the icky interface, there was abosulutely no difference.
yes, "icky". I know where you're coming from- it's hard to get used to at first. People who are used to IE would be better served going with Firefox than Chrome for a nice easy transition.
Anywho, you're gonna see the biggest difference on sites that use a large amount JavaScript- like google reader, or gmail, or flickr, or pretty much any new "web 2.0" site, not so much on forums or news sites- stuff like that.
But yes, having a slower connection is going to make the difference much harder to see because so much of the time is spent on downloading content rather than compiling JavaScript and executing it. Both Firefox and Chrome are 2-4x faster than internet explorer 7 and 50-60% faster than internet explorer 8 on that. And they are both much more secure.
