Demaestro - 6:01 pm on Oct 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

What I have a problem with is someone who has a competing browser installs, in the background, a plugin that slows down it's competitor's browser.

I wonder how much of the "bad" coding was intentional to slow down FF.

I can just see a Microsoft campaign telling you to

1) update your machine
2) open Firefox
3) open IE
4) type this URL into both browsers
5) hit enter on both browsers
6) See! IE loads faster than FF

What they don't tell you is their plugin from the "update your machine" step slows down FF.

I am not saying that this is what happened here, but if they wanted it obviously wouldn't be hard to pull off.