Firefox 4
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- stewdio0
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You're partially correct. Your internet connection's speed and bandwidth have a large influence on how fast your browser feels. You click on a link, your browser has to contact that server, then retrieve all the code, images, video, etc. If your connection is slow the page load will be slow.
But there's another aspect to browser speed which is rendering time. Once you have all that information from the server downloaded locally, how fast can your browser assemble it? JavaScript rendering has become the new frontier for optimization. Particularly as the web paradigm continues to shift from a "static pages" model to an "application" model. Much of a web page's interactivity and internal decision making is done by JavaScript, right, so as a browser maker if you can make JavaScript execute faster your users will be happier.
Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome have relatively new, highly optimized JavaScript engines. Mozilla's FireFox has been left in the dust. They know it. And they're working to fix it. I think it's pretty cool that Mozilla is down, but *not out.* I'd love to see that Phoenix rise again. The competition is good for the entire browser market. Meanwhile if we could just make IE go away...
- what do you think about chrome frame (as a partial solution for IE users?)lukus_W