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Firefox 3 and a half / arrrrgh

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Aloone_Jonez:
I think Firefox isn't too bad speed-wise.

When loading up it seems to be slow but once it's running it's not too bad.

I've only used Firefox since version 3, before that I used Opera because Firefox didn't have enough features. I only switched to Firefox because of the Adblock extension, if it wasn't for that, I'd still be using Opera.

worker201:
I don't know if it's because of my version, but Firefox is extremely slow at recognizing keyboard input in the address bar.  It tries to anticipate what address you want, and this often leads to a delay between key presses and letters appearing.  Fortunately, I don't do that very often - I make extremely good use of bookmarks and search engine plugins.

Calum:
for me it's very slow on sites such as facebook and myspace but not on other, less intensive, websites. It's probably because i am running suse 11.1 on an ancient (well, it is now) IBM M50, but to be honest i still think that if an IBM M50 was alright to surf the 'net with five years ago, it should still be just as good now.

Lead Head:
Weird, my Firefox 3.5 is quite fast, no "lag" on key inputs either. This is on my Ubuntu rig as well.

worker201:

--- Quote from: Calum on  9 September 2009, 11:51 ---for me it's very slow on sites such as facebook and myspace but not on other, less intensive, websites. It's probably because i am running suse 11.1 on an ancient (well, it is now) IBM M50, but to be honest i still think that if an IBM M50 was alright to surf the 'net with five years ago, it should still be just as good now.

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Slightly off-topic - anybody know what language Facebook is built in?  AJAX is probably a little too crude for the volume they're getting.  Maybe some sort of Ruby?

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