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to: Randall Parker
from: John Beamish
date: 2006-07-22 15:36:12
subject: Re: Anyone compared FireFox speed on Windows and Linux?

From: "John Beamish" 

If you're mostly interested in speed, try Opera for Linux.  It leaves
Firefox and IE (haven't tried IE7) in the dust.  Of course, you'll also get
an Acid2 compliant browser, too, but that's the bonus.

http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?custom=yes

(PS:  Don - there's an OS/2 version you can try, too! ;->)

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:16:41 -0400, Randall Parker

wrote:

> To make it really apples to apples I think we need a zipped up folder of
> some big complex HTML files. Then load locally. That'd avoid the effects
> of different speed internet connections.
>
> Let me figure out if I can get a folder from FireFox into something
> shippable.
>
> Geo wrote:
>> "Randall Parker"
>>

>> wrote in message news:44c24e7c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>>> If we all used the same set of URLs we could swap performance times
>>> here.
>>  zip the folder with the shortcuts, I'll try it here with crazybrowser
>> on a
>> 1.8ghz laptop running W2K and then I'll boot knoppix and try it from
>> whatever that K browser thingie is called.
>>  Geo.
>>

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