From: Randall Parker 

I have a 1.8 Ghz P4 Dell desktop with PC133 memory running Linux. I have a 2.2 Ghz P4
Sony Vaio P4 laptop running Win XP Home. FireFox on the Win laptop seems like it is
way faster than on the desktop and much more so than I'd expect by the difference in
processor speeds. Both have 1 Gig RAM.

Does anyone happen to have identical or very similar hardware running with Linux and
Windows who could compare?

I'm thinking that bookmarking a dozen or more news sites (NY Times, Washington Post,
Times UK, Daily Telegraph UK, etc), and then opening them all at once in tabs to see
how long it takes them to load would provide a way to compare relative performance.

If we all used the same set of URLs we could swap performance times here.

Unless someone has a better way to do this? Maybe some big complex web pages where
loading a single page would be a good test?

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