Re: Konqueror vs Firefox

["Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa gmail com>]

2008/3/7 Brian <Brian Mingus colorado edu>:
> Sunspider: http://webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html
>
> This doesn't benchmark everything, but javascript is important to me as I
> use apps such as Gmail constantly. Since these apps tend not to work in
> Konqueror anyway, they may not be relevant to you. But anything Konq does in
> javascript is way slower than other browsers.

According to that test, Firefox is significantly faster than
Konqueror, but as you noted that this for Javascript only. And I have
to say, I seriously doubt the usefulness of this test. I know for a
fact that Firefox on my Fedora machines is significantly _slower_ than
Konqueror at rendering pages -- which to me is more important than
rendering Javascript.

I don't mean to stress this too much, but Firefox on F7 lead me to
stop using my desktop machine for casual browsing of the internet.
When ever I need to visit webpages on my desktop, or develop web apps
from my desktop, I almost exclusively use Konqueror.

I strongly suggest that you try this rendering test instead:
http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/innerhtml.html

This shows Konqueror about twice as fast at rendering than Konqueror.
And if I were to do a stop watch rendering test I know that Firefox
would fail miserably in comparison to Konqueror.

Also, I am not alone:
http://www.google.com/search?q=firefox+linux+slow

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