Konqueror vs Firefox

[Brian]

I'll try those tests on a few of the above machines but Gmail doesn't even
render in Konq, so there is no way I will use it even if it's faster on the
rendering test. I chose the SunSpider test specifically because more and
more sites are becoming Javascript heavy.

Your stopwatch test would only be in Konq's favor for sites that didn't use
javascript. Every single time Konq has to process javascript, you're going
to be waiting.

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/3/7 Brian <Brian.Mingus at 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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