Why is Google Chrome so much faster than IE8?
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There are a lot of plug-ins available for Firefox that secure it better than any browser out there. Not that the browser itself is insecure, but there are many ways to take advantage of what are commonly accepted functions that black hats can use without your knowledge.
my brother is a big time computer geek, he actually hated fire fox. it was because it evolved from mozilla which was pretty much netscape. he said it was a memory hog and to "prove" it to me he loaded mozilla and explorer at the same time to show that the explorer window pops up first, notice i said mozilla. he didn't have firefox just an ancient copy of mozilla. he didn't try to open pages or anything to test the actual speed. i laughed at him and it started a big argument. he didn't like explorer either, he just hated mozilla and firefox by asociation. when chrome came out he did switch to that.
as far as the linux argument. try the latest from ubuntu or mint. i know nothing about terminal and i am using mint every day. for those net book things get mint with lxde instead of gnome. the Asus version of linux that comes on them is a bad representation of linux.
as far as microsoft, i have to give it to them as far as windows 7 goes, i used it up till my harddrive crashed and it's pretty good. the last 15 or so years of computers may put a bad taste in your mouth especially if you were/are using windows vista but right now there are decent choices from each operating system.
also i'm starting to grow distrust of google, but they have some of the best programmers. i love my android phone and gmail is the best email service, chrome has the best interface of all the browsers, but google is too big and i believe they have been in trouble for privacy violations.
as far as the linux argument. try the latest from ubuntu or mint. i know nothing about terminal and i am using mint every day. for those net book things get mint with lxde instead of gnome. the Asus version of linux that comes on them is a bad representation of linux.
as far as microsoft, i have to give it to them as far as windows 7 goes, i used it up till my harddrive crashed and it's pretty good. the last 15 or so years of computers may put a bad taste in your mouth especially if you were/are using windows vista but right now there are decent choices from each operating system.
also i'm starting to grow distrust of google, but they have some of the best programmers. i love my android phone and gmail is the best email service, chrome has the best interface of all the browsers, but google is too big and i believe they have been in trouble for privacy violations.
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The original Mozilla was a suite of applications that included an HTML editor (Kompozer), a mail client (Thunderbird), a PIM (Sunrise), a browser (Firefox, although I think it was called Navigator or Firebird back then), and a chat client (Chatzilla). It was lot to load.
When Firefox was first released as a standalone browser, Microsoft's thralls immediately started whining about the size of it, as if nobody knew that 90% of IE was already loaded and hidden from sight. When you open IE, you're basically just loading the GUI front end, so it looks small in the process manager. Fact is, it's huge, and Windows won't even operate without many of its components running, since they comprise the bulk of the file manager. An OS without a file manager is like an airplane without engines. Impressive, but useless.
Today, everybody but IE is pretty fast, with the differences between them being noticeable only on benchmarks rather than by the seat of your pants. It mostly has to do with the Javascript interpreter, and as I understand it Google's Chrome is currently leading, at least by the numbers. In reality, I'm not sure you'd notice any difference. The downside to Chrome is the EULA, which gives Google way too much leeway to play on your computer and watch what you're doing, so I don't use it. It's MY computer, not Google's, and what I do with it is my business, not theirs.
When Firefox was first released as a standalone browser, Microsoft's thralls immediately started whining about the size of it, as if nobody knew that 90% of IE was already loaded and hidden from sight. When you open IE, you're basically just loading the GUI front end, so it looks small in the process manager. Fact is, it's huge, and Windows won't even operate without many of its components running, since they comprise the bulk of the file manager. An OS without a file manager is like an airplane without engines. Impressive, but useless.
Today, everybody but IE is pretty fast, with the differences between them being noticeable only on benchmarks rather than by the seat of your pants. It mostly has to do with the Javascript interpreter, and as I understand it Google's Chrome is currently leading, at least by the numbers. In reality, I'm not sure you'd notice any difference. The downside to Chrome is the EULA, which gives Google way too much leeway to play on your computer and watch what you're doing, so I don't use it. It's MY computer, not Google's, and what I do with it is my business, not theirs.
my distrust of google almost convinced me to get a blackberry. i had ATT and was sick of the iphone one big button interface, the blackberry torch wasn't out yet and there list of blackberries was a short one so i got an andriod well actually two of them, i had an aria and traded it up towards the captivate. im haveing too much fun with it, it's rooted and im considering overclocking it, just for fun. it doesn't need it, i have ftp and webdav software on it to share files over wifi, it has wireless N so it's fast. but it does bother me that google has so much freedom to watch over aspects of my life.