From: "Gregg N" 

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
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> >IE actually loads more DLLs
>
> Thanks for that info. If DLLs actually constitute the bulk of IE's helper
> load, and you're not just playing semantics with us, Microsoft is using
some
> good filesystem optimizations in its load process.  IE's load time is not
just
> dramatically shorter, it's nearly an order of magnitude shorter (haven't
> measured it).

I'm not sure, but I am guessing that some of the slowness has to do with
its being designed as a cross-platform application. There may be layers of
abstraction in Firefox that are not present in IE. In some cases, a native
subsystem might not be used at all. For example, I think Firefox uses its
own COM-like subsystem rather than using the Windows implementation.

Gregg

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