I have been disappointed with the relative performance of Firefox 3 beta
on the Mac, so I am running a poll on The Mac Orchard that asks the
question:

"Despite all of the hoopla stating otherwise, Firefox 3 beta for seems
to be a big step backward in rendering performance when compared to
Firefox 2, which could be a bad thing for the Mac. What has your
experience been?"

Guests are invited to vote.

Please see:
<http://www.macorchard.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/themaco/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1202
725660>

Drew

In article news-server.rochester.rr.com>,
Drew D. Saur macorchard.com> wrote:

That's a great idea - compare a beta product to one that already
shipping.

In article news-server.rochester.rr.com>,
"Drew D. Saur" macorchard.com> wrote:

I guess nobody ever informed you that software developers often leave
debugging code that can have a detrimental effect on speed enabled in
beta releases?

In article <110220080718572377%%rag@nospam.techline.com>,
"Mr. Strat" nospam.techline.com> wrote:

Jolly Roger wrote:

It may also depend on the computer system itself,i.e., processor type,
OS, etc.

VG

In article ,
VirtualGuy wrote:

I really don't think anyone should be speed testing FF. It is
absurd. It would be like testing a turtle for swiftness; turtles
are simply not about *swift* anything in spite of their many
other admirable qualities. It is rude and demeaning to turtles to
even suggest it. Please stop now.

In article <110220080718572377%%rag@nospam.techline.com>,
"Mr. Strat" nospam.techline.com> wrote:

Upon further experimentation, I found relief by going to about:config
and changing "network.dns.disableIPv6" to "true".

It seems that IPv6 DNS lookups are what is slowing Firefox 3 down!

In article
news-server.rochester.rr.com>,
"Drew D. Saur" macorchard.com> wrote:

What are you measuring exactly? My Safari opens like a bolt of
lightening whereas FF (which I need and use too) comes on like it
is doing me a favour, it seems to have this idea that it is some
sort of Prima donna. When it does come on, I slap it about. It
remembers and is even more mule like next time. But it reaches a
limit of slowness and then I know I have won, I can ill treat it
as much as I like with no further consequences. With Safari, I
have respect. It just does things quick smart and it would not
occur to me to ill treat it, it has a sort of aura that precludes
this.

Unable to vote without going thru a long process of registering
with user name, password, etc, etc.
Why do you have to make it so hard to just make an opinion.
I will pass.
jeff

I rarely use FF 2 as is is much slower (imho) than Safari 3
jeff

Mr. Strat wrote: