Email conversation
| From | Idan Sofer |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Comment regarding the browser speed test |
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| Date | 19 February 2005 18:52 |
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First of all,good job at the browser benchmarking comparisons, something
like that was needed a long time ago:-)
Regarding your comment that:
'Surprisingly, Mozilla is now faster at most tasks than Firefox'
Mozilla 1.8 is indeed faster then Firefox 1.0, that shouldn't come as a
surprise - the latter's gecko was branched directly from Mozilla 1.7 if i'm
not mistaken, while the former has the latest enhancments from the trunk.
You will notice it also in firefox nightlies, which indeed run more
smoothly on scripting oriented site then FF 1.0, and as indicated by my own
benchmark suite:
[test page addresses]
Idan
| From | Me |
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| To | Idan Sofer |
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| Subject | Re: Comment regarding the browser speed test |
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| Date | 19 February 2005 19:17 |
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> First of all,good job at the browser benchmarking comparisons, something
> like that was needed a long time ago:-)
Thankyou :)
> Mozilla 1.8 is indeed faster then Firefox 1.0, that shouldn't come as a
> surprise
Please see the previous emails where I have qualified that comment (I am
going to have to add a permanent link to that email, I have had too many
mails about it already ;)
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/emails/NickFagerlund.html#whyfaster
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/