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firefox vs. opera: FF is slow when hitting 'back', opera just uses cache
cmpm:
I've been using firefox for a while, about a month now and found that the 'minimize to tray' addon and the 'minimize to tray enhancer' addon are speeding up my browsing a lot. In the options of these addons are tweaks that can help. And it doesn't use a lot of resources either. Take it from me who is still on a pentium 3 machine. :) These addons keeps firefox loaded but idle.
The main one was that I was hitting X instead of the minimize arrow, until I found the tweak to have the X (close) button minimize firefox to the tray.
No problems with the back button here. Quicker then ie7.
I also have fasterfox too. Helped tremendously.
But I haven't used Opera so I don't know a difference, but thought I'd add a thought or two.
nontroppo:
Note, Opera has slowed down its RAM cache a bit in recent builds for sites who use onUnload Javascript and some other heuristic triggers (to allow AJAX history navigation to work etc). You can regain Opera's phenomenal speed by setting:
opera:config#UserPrefs|HistoryNavigationMode to 3
Then, using Site specific preferences you can enable compatible mode only for sites like GMail that benefit from it.
Firefox's recent history cache is still both slower and much more memory hungry than Opera's. I've tested this by opening Google Image Searches for Picasso, Magritte and Dali (20 images per page). Then navigation through ten pages (thus 200 images per tab and 600 images total). Firefox fails after 5 (default settings) back navigations in total. Opera can render *all* of the 30 pages and 600 images immediately using some 40% less RAM!
kimchii — that Proxo filter will not stop Firefox from having to rerender web pages. You probably have Fastback enabled in Firefox. Your filter *will* stop sites forcing you to revalidate HTTP resources, though will make forums etc not automatically update unless overridden.
tomos:
I've been using firefox for a while, about a month now and found that the 'minimize to tray' addon and the 'minimize to tray enhancer' addon are speeding up my browsing a lot. In the options of these addons are tweaks that can help. And it doesn't use a lot of resources either. Take it from me who is still on a pentium 3 machine. :) These addons keeps firefox loaded but idle.
The main one was that I was hitting X instead of the minimize arrow, until I found the tweak to have the X (close) button minimize firefox to the tray-cmpm (August 13, 2007, 04:02 PM)
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sounds great, very helpful for my old maching too - will try
Firefox's recent history cache is still both slower and much more memory hungry than Opera's. I've tested this by opening Google Image Searches for Picasso, Magritte and Dali (20 images per page). Then navigation through ten pages (thus 200 images per tab and 600 images total). Firefox fails after 5 (default settings) back navigations in total. Opera can render *all* of the 30 pages and 600 images immediately using some 40% less RAM!-nontroppo (August 13, 2007, 04:37 PM)
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don't be making me envious :mad: ;)
(I have other reasons why I using FF...I'd prefer not to, honestly :tellme: )
I was actually taking the thread a little off topic
(but thought it was related enough not to have to start a new one)
by asking about how the browsers startup while re-opening tabs from previous session
& wondering if there was a way to make FF start without reloading all webpages as opposed to simply saving them which i believe Opera does (I've gotten this bad tab-habit...)
cmpm:
These are some tweaks in Fasterfox-for the history deal I believe.
sri:
I installed this add-on and am using the Turbo setting. Noticeable improvement!
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