mcneely - 6:34 am on Nov 17, 2008 (gmt 0)

Firefox 3 does leave a bit of a footprint then these days, doesn't it?

If Mozilla thinks that being a resource hog is the way to win the day against IEX, then I think they should re-think the browser altogether.

I picked up on Firefox in the beginning because it was fast and light. Nimble would have better described it.
It would read and go, read and go, and didn't stop to look at things along the way to a page load like IEX does.

These days of high speed connections has only served to allow web developers to build some of the heaviest, most script laden pages that have ever existed on the net, and for a period of time, Firefox was up to the task of putting these heavy monstrosities on in pretty short order. Firefox 3, however, is the closest yet to IEX that I've seen so far, with regard to going as slow as IEX when it comes to loading sites like msnbc and myspace for example.

Firefox used to load the heaviest of pages with a certain ease. An ease the IEX has never had.

Sure, I've been to the Firefox forums, what with all of the ex-internet explorer users in there complaining about Firefox because it seemingly doesn't do what their once beloved explorer did ... I think that you can't please them all, and that the development team for Firefox should quit being so swayed by the opinions of those who would seem to want IEX, but under a different name, like maybe, Firefox for instance.

>>> ... laggardly response of add-on developers to version 3 would have taught them something... <<<

Of course it should've. It should have alerted them to the fact that they are, by nearly every build these days, drifting closer and closer to the lane that the internet explorer is driving in.

We here would prefer to have Firefox because it's Firefox ... If we wanted internet explorer, we'ld be using that instead.

One day, I fear, that I'm going to wake up and discover that my Firefox is IEX, and that my IEX is Firefox, and I won't be able to distinguish one from the other without first looking at the logo.