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Hi what is the major difference between mozilla firefox and IE? Does it hit surfing speed depending on browser? How does browser affect browsing speed? If it is so which is the best browser?

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... and then fight started – Rubens Farias Jan 7 '10 at 18:21
... one isn't driven by religious fanatics :) – Molly7244 Jan 7 '10 at 18:36
Religion has nothing on some people's love for firefox! – Phoshi Jan 7 '10 at 18:36
an example for the mindset of the folks behind it: :) "The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth." mozilla.org/book – Molly7244 Jan 7 '10 at 19:57
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Firefox (in testing) has faster Javascript execution, and is more standards complient when it comes to HTML. I also believe it's slightly faster at rendering, but your net speed is the larger limiter there. Firefox has always seemed much faster to me - though I avoid using IE as much as I can. I don't think this question truly has an answer, and is certainly beyond the scope of SU, but I vote firefox, firefox, firefox.

(CW'd, feel free to agree with me :P)

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For me, speed doesn't come first.
Security does.
This is the main reason why I use Firefox.
I don't want my CPU running 99% on spyware!

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Firefox can actually be made considerably less secure depending on what addons you have installed. – Daniel Schaffer Jan 7 '10 at 19:13
However, so can IE :P – Phoshi Jan 7 '10 at 20:23
in fact, more security flaws remain longer unpatched in Firefox than in Internet explorer. – Molly7244 Jan 7 '10 at 20:24
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The main reason people (the non-religious fanatics ie. non-Linux users) love Firefox so much is that it has such a HUGE addon base. IE, on the other hand, has very few decent add-ons.

It is also much more standards-compliant than IE, though to be fair, Opera and Safari beat them both at this one.

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Here's a basic rundown.

  1. Firefox has faster Javascript execution.
  2. Firefox can handle addons that simplify tasks, in turn making you work faster (so it is faster than IE in a sense).
  3. Firefox is more standard compliant. IE has many bugs when redering giving web designer massive headaches.
  4. Visually, it's faster. Try openening a new tab in Firefox, less than a second right? Try opening one in IE, it takes a bit to load.

Hope this helps.

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