[X4U] Another cool firefox feature

[DZ-Jay]

Richard Gilmore wrote:
> Just my 2 cents on this. I prefer Firefox. Someone said in an earlier post
> that Safari was faster I haven't found this to be the case.

What I said was that, depending on the amount and type of extensions, 
Firefox can feel a bit sluggish when responding to interface events, 
like changing tabs of clicking on menus.  This happens to me in Windows, 
Linux, and MacOS X.

It certainly makes sense if you consider that some extensions change or 
intercept the default actions when certain events take place, and this 
is done "on the fly".  I'm sure with a bit more RAM the lag will not be 
noticeable, but at the moment, I notice it when I have multiple windows 
opened and various tabs in them.

Also, pages heavy on JavaScript (for DHTML) tend to run a bit slower on 
Firefox, at least that I can see.  Again, this is on any platform I have 
used the browser.

I do not see this problem with other browsers, such as Safari or Opera, 
perhaps because their feature set is limited within the core 
application, and these features are optimized within.  Certainly, a 
plain-vanilla installation of Firefox, sans any extensions, is faster 
than greased lighting.

	dZ.