Firefox 353 slower than Opera 10

[Greg]

Firefox 3.53 slower than Opera 10

I notice firefox 3.53 is slower then Opera 10. Firefox 3.5.3 takes
forever to load (And doesn't load some tabs). This is with very few
add on installed. I will keep firefox 3.53 installed, only for sites
that have problems with Opera. (Note, I am not using turbo feature
that Opera has.)

Does anyone know how to make firefox use more memory?

It looks like I will be switching to Opera for windows xp sp3

Greg

[Tom Willett]

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38

"Greg" <inv...@invalid.net> wrote in message
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: Firefox 3.53 slower than Opera 10

[Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo]

for me, FF is just as fast as opera. Firefox doesn't
have a turbo feature. And you're not doing a very good
test, especially if FF has addons and opera doesn't.

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[BillW50]

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Greg typed on Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:48:27 -0400:

Firefox has always been the slowest and most memory leaking browser
since day one. And I too favor Opera v10 against Firefox any day. And I
count 13 critical vulnerabilities can be used to run attacker code and
install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing
just in FF 3.5.x alone.

http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox35.html

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[FACE]

On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:48:27 -0400, in netscape.public.mozilla.browser,
Greg <inv...@invalid.net>, wrote

Greg, I used to use Opera (starting with Opera 8) when I was on dialup.
The difference in the rendering result makes it worthwhile to use FF-- at
least for me, YMMV.

Believe me, you *do not want* for FF to use more memory. But if you
insist, the lines to do so are in prefs.js or may have to be added. I
imagine you can find the params to increase it on the web, i found the
params and instructions to restrict it there............

FACE

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On Oct 8, 10:48 am, Greg <inva...@invalid.net> wrote:

Hi, new here, but have an idea: have you tried installing Speedyfox??
I have WinPatrol open the browser at start-up & w/ this thing, Ff is
loaded before I hear the MSN "music."

You mean "not use more memory"??...I simply have got into the habit of
exiting & restarting Firefox after an hour or so.

[Steve JORDI]

Did you notice how fast Firefox loads as long as you don't install the
Adobe Flash Player?

On my laptop it loads in about 3- seconds.
Install Flash Player, then it's about 40-50 seconds.

Sincerely,
Steve JORDI

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