Originally posted by michaelab
But that's a bollox comparison. It's like saying I can run 100m faster than you if I have 50m head start 
FireFox may be slower to load without the monopolistic (and probably illegal in terms of competition law) advantage that IE6 has but once it's up and running it will show IE6 a clean pair of heels on any page you care to mention. It might not be that much faster overall but the way it renders as much of the page as it can as soon as it gets it instead of waiting until it's all loaded like IE it certainly gives you a much faster user experience.
I've never found page loads to be all that slow on IE, I grant you it may be a little slower in that respect, but I'd sooner have the 100% rendering reliability of IE. If it works, dont fix it.
Oh btw, that 90% of computer uses thing is bollox too. 90% of users don't really have a choice or aren't aware they have one so they just toe the Microsoft line. One of the main reasons why MS bundling things like IE with the OS is anti-competetive and why they're facing a massive fine from the EU. They would have faced stiffer penalties in the US on the same issue if the judges hadn't been so limp wristed and wimped out.
Granted, some may not have a choice, those in corporations and such like. We use a lot of web apps [at work] and would not rely on a flakey browser like Firefox that needs constant updating, and what would probably fail to run some of the applications. They really need to work on this aspect IMO, if its to even stand a chance of taking over - I still dont think it will.
Also, BTW, I think the whole anti-competitive thing is a load of bollox as well. They are business who want to compete for a large market share. They have probably pulled their fair share of dirty tricks, but company rivalry is like war, and they are simply better at it than their competitors. They have the temerity to offer utilities like web browsers in its operating system (which, I might add they did in 1995 with Windows 95, and I dont remember people complaining then - only with the implementation of IE4 did people start complaining about that). Little features that were integrated into the OS, and hardly a big deal. At no time did they stop their users installing alternative browsers on the machine. Yet, operating systems like Linux and Mac OS X offer these utilities in their Operating System, and nobody complains about them. IMO its nothing more than mindless and groundless bias against MS, because it genuinely seems to be the "in thing" for computer folks to do this.
All the other browsers, are less stable than IE, and IE is the only one that can render every page correctly. Until Firefox can do all that, it will never beckon my PC again.
