Re: Firefox - uploading photos to Ebay

In message <05001b874d.acld75@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
george <george.greenfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <4d86f512dcdave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> In article <088fed864d.acld75@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> george <george.greenfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > And Fresco and Netsurf also work - perhaps to a limited extent.
>>> >
>>
>>> But your previous point was that you had to resort to MSIE to upload
>>> photos: my point is that FF can do this, and every other aspect of bid
>>> preparation also.
>>
>> I've only had a play with it, but found it so slow and unwieldy on a
>> Strongarm as to be unusable.
>>
>
> I found FFbeta1 sluggish but usable on a 233Mhz Kinetic (the fast
> memory no doubt helps); FFbeta2 works well on Iyonix. Actually page
> rendering and scrolling is quick; response to mouse clicks and
> keyboard input is where it is somewhat cumbersome (though beta2 is
> better than beta1 in this respect). Both versions have been at least
> as stable as O2, and further work may well improve responsiveness on a
> Strongarm.
>
> George
>

Some timings, all on Iyonix, 5.09, 256Mb RAM (1Mb broadband):
Access Drobe from Google: FF 8 secs; O2 7 secs
Access The Register from Drobe: FF 11 secs; O2 10 secs
Back to Drobe using 'back' arrow: FF 3 secs; O2 5 secs
Access Aprilia.com site: FF 15 secs; O2 18 secs.

All times are from mouse click to the completion of page loading (O2
tends to load pages in a rapid succession of screen redraws, whereas
with FF it appears complete, so while the page initially appears more
quickly with O2, completion of rendering is slower). The Aprilia.com
page is complex with lots of animated images. The version of Firefox
is beta2.

In general the performance of FF on a fast machine such as the Iyonix
is closely comparable to O2, which is remarkable considering the early
stage of FF development. The range of sites accessible with FF is also
greater.

George

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