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Version: 3.5.5

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Slower than Safari

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Contributed by: agd21 Monday, August 24 2009 @ 09:22 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 1-6 months

Recommend Product: YES

I run both Safari 4.0.3 and Firefox 3.5.2. Firefox usually takes longer to load a page, and I frequently get "Server not found", whereas Safari will find the page.

Firefox seems to especially choke when I try to open multiple bookmark pages in multiple tabs - when doing this it takes forever to bring up the pages if it will bring them up at all. Again, Safari will usually handle this action.

I'm using a new iMac 2.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 3 Mbaud DSL internet connection.

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Comments

I get the opposite - hkim

I find Safari is slower on javascripted sites than firefox and does not allow me to quickly look at code. It is slower to start up though than Safari.

I suspect strongly you have issues with your machine that are affecting the performance of Firefox.

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Wednesday, September 09 2009 @ 06:30 PM PDT