Chilean Site Compares Mozilla, Mozilla Firebird, IE and OperaThursday November 13th, 2003Fenix writes: "The Chilean website www.eltallervirtual.cl has reviewed four browser for the Windows platform: IE, Mozilla, Mozilla Firebird and Opera. Mozilla Firebird wins the battle, but both Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird showed relatively slow loading of pages from the cache. Does anybody know why?" The review, which focuses mostly on performance metrics and test results, is in Spanish. An automated Google translation is available. what's up with the topless chick in all of the browser windows? couldn't they lay down the porn long enough to do a browser test? Not every country has its roots in puritanism. You'd rather see a test pattern? I'm an atheist, so don't feed me that conservative christian b.s. I just thought it was a little out of place. The site shown in their screenshots is their own site, eltallervirtual.cl, by the way. Don't see why we need to use nudity to sell things. I always love it when atheists declare themselves so. At least they believe in something! :) TBird has proven as far as I've tested on my PC (Windows98SE) to be the quickest. Even on dial-up it beats IE6 anytime! Don't need anyone to convince me on that part. Most of Europe have a more relaxed attitude about nudity and such. Personally (as a person living here), I don't mind that at all ;) Harmless or not, my company is blocking the website because of it, so unless the nudity is an important part of the article content, I would greatly prefer that it be left out, so I could actually read the article. My company blocks google translation as well, since it can be uses as a way of getting around block site policies. Not being about to see the article, I have no idea of the context, or the value of the picture in terms of content. Maybe the pic is a vital part of the article? Hard to see how that is possible. Anyway, if nudity in advertising is so harmless, how come they are almost always pics of skinny young girls? Since I can't see the actual pic, I'm just guessing here, but I'd bet hard money it's not a topless granny :) Showing us stuff like this always makes me think of the way the Romans controled the population, with spectacles that glutted the senses without touching the soul... first, she is not topless (look closely at http://www.eltallervirtual.cl/modules/My_eGallery/public/nmimage.php?z=../gallery/wallpapers/Pamela_Anderson_.jpg&width=1024&height=768) and secondly, even if she were topless a harmless pic like this would probably go under "porn" only in a Taleban-controlled country. Hi, Why compare a browser? "Both Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird showed relatively slow loading of pages from the cache. Does anybody know why?" Of course! We've known for over three years that Opera is much faster than Mozilla at rendering a page when you click the Back button, and we've had good ideas about why that is. Just take a look at bug 38486 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38486 Please don't spam that bug with useless comments as a certain Bugzilla user has rudely done, however. There is a $1000 price reward for whomever fixes that bug. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38486#c56 #10 Re: Re: Mozilla slower at going back to previous pby FrodoB Friday November 14th, 2003 12:31 PM By that spammer, no less. :) #12 Re: Re: Mozilla slower at going back to previous pby bzbarsky Friday November 14th, 2003 1:15 PM Let me just say that in my opinion $1000 is not worth the trouble for that bug unless you actually want to fix it to start with (that is, the amount of work required is far above what I would charge $1000 for). #14 Re: Re: Re: Mozilla slower at going back to previoby mlefevre Friday November 14th, 2003 5:47 PM Not to mention that the $1000 is on condition that the fix doesn't go into Firebird. Given that the code is shared between Mozilla and Firebird, it's not even possible to meet the conditions unless Mozilla.org changes their policies, or the author unlawfully breaches copyright. He only said: > If it is fixed within 1 month, and as long as *the person who fixes it* doesn't do it for Firebird for at least > 6 months Therefore, if one person fixes it, and another puts the fix into Firebird after, the first person can still collect the $1000. I'm not sure if this is what he meant, but it is what he said. And besides, it wouldn't be my fault if a fix I wrote (hypothetically) were ported to the other application, would it? -Dan I don't think you understand.... Firebird and SeaMonkey use the same back/forward code in nsDocShell.cpp. That means that the moment you check it into SeaMonkey it's also in Firebird. It's not possible to add it to one without the other. Hence the person who fixes it in SeaMonkey would in fact automatically also fix it in Firebird. I read the comparison (in Spanish) and it is very superficial. The most interesting thing they found was that Opera is more compliant in CSS2 standards than Mozilla and Firebird. Cache performance or slow performance to be more exact is not a new thing for Mozilla browsers > The most interesting thing they found was that Opera is more compliant in CSS2 standards > than Mozilla and Firebird. It's all in the set of tests you do... If you run both browsers on my tests, for example, we do better (largely because there were bugs filed and fixed for almost all those tests). For all practical purposes, the two browsers have very close support of CSS2. I have read it in spanish too (¡¿porqué escribo esto en inglés entonces?!), and also found it is *very* superficial... All what is there is a simple feature comparison, whith some strange results... But, at least, they said some important things, like remarking that if M$IE loads faster than Moz or other browsers in Windoze, it's because it is preloaded with the sort of OS. |
