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by Old School on March 5th, 2007
I am an avid fan of Firefox. I don't think it's significantly faster than Explorer (connnection speed is a far greater factor).
Firefox has other positives (tabbed browsing, extensions, etc.) than make it (in my opinion) superior to IE, but speed isn't one of them.
by Darryl61 on March 5th, 2007
I will add to the myriad of opinions here. I have found it to be a little faster, but the big advantage is that it seems less susceptible to the hangups and pitfalls of IE. Nearly every time I see people complaining of server problems on Answerbag, they are using IE, and as a Firefox user, I experience none of these problems.
by FLYxNIGHT on March 5th, 2007
I've only been using it for two days now, but I don't see any increased speed. If anything, it's slower in loading the AB homepage.
by EL1 2 on March 5th, 2007
Its speed really depends on how you have tweaked it. There are settings and plugins that can speed it up.
by Anonymous too on March 5th, 2007
My experience has been that Firefox is much faster than Internet Explorer.
by Someguy on March 5th, 2007
No faster, just cooler and safer.
by DavidHume on March 5th, 2007
It isn't any faster, just more flexible and more secure.
I found an installer(offline) for Google Chrome browser. Why doesn't Chrome just
have one as part of the application? The app worked fine.
by einsteinwasright0116 on December 11th, 2011
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Do you use toolbar for your web browser?
by XT on November 17th, 2011
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so far tonight my browser (Safari) has crashed a half dozen times while clicking in AB. Anyone else? this happens every once in awhile.
by Baba on December 8th, 2011
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Do you have a pornographic website open on another tab right now?
by Troy_W5542 on October 25th, 2011
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Are you using a modern browser?
by AnonymousGirl on December 9th, 2011
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Not sure how you have your FF set up, but mine is almost twice as fast at a page load. I was curious and just timed both on AB's front page using FF 2.02 vs IE7.
by scubabob on March 5th, 2007
I use IE so little I wouldn't really know. I'm just going off vague memory. The only reasons I still have IE are 1) Microsnot makes it hard to extract from the OS and 2) Some web sites use software routines that work *only* with IE. Otherwise, I'm 100% Firefox.
by Old School on March 5th, 2007