[geeks] Firefox performance

[Phil Stracchino]

About that Firefox vs. IE speed issue?  There's an artivle about FF3 on
C|Net today (http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9970015-7.html) in which
the following example claim is made:



"It gives you the horsepower you need to experience rich Internet apps
as they should be from a performance standpoint," said Damon Sicore,
Mozilla's director of platform engineering, mentioning Gmail and Google
Maps specifically as applications where users don't want to wait. "As
these apps get bigger and more complicated, faster browsers are going to
become more critical."

Specifically, it takes 60 milliseconds to change Gmail from showing one
message to another with Firefox 3, Sicore said, compared with 413
milliseconds for IE 7 and 227 for Firefox 2.



Also cited in the article is May 2008 browser share:

IE		74%
FF		18%
Safari		 6%
Opera		<1%
All others	~1%


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