FireFox 3.1 Leaves IE in the Dust 435
Anonymous writes "Granted, FireFox 3.1 is just a beta and IE 8 is also in beta, but it looks like Microsoft has some ground to make up when it comes to browser performance. Given that Mozilla appears to be on a much faster cycle than Microsoft with this stuff, it's also possible that it could increase the gap even more before IE 8 is GA, no?"
What's "GA"? (Score:5, Funny)
Is "GA" a common abbreviation? I assume it's a contraction of "generally available", but I did think of, and discount, a few other possibilities first given it's used in conjunction with IE8;
God Awful (too obvious)
Grizzly Adams (not sure where the bad 80s drama comes into things)
Ground to Air (IE could be a Weapon Of Markup Destruction..)
Goatse Arse (Ass if you're American)
Gabon (.ga is the country code for there..)
Standards Non-compliant (using Microsoft Alphabet)
Re:What's "GA"? (Score:5, Funny)
When Microsoft releases a product it goes from CTP (Community Technology preview) to RTM (Release to Manufactuing) to GA (Genuinely Assinine).
Re:What's "GA"? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:And yet (Score:5, Funny)
Their speeds all suck next to lynx!
Re:Tired of Perma-Beta (Score:3, Funny)
No, "Vista" gets you a free pass on bugs. "Beta" is the new "stable".
Re:Benchmarks were versus IE7 ... (Score:5, Funny)
Don't worry, I'm sure we'll still get a bunch of uninformed posts from people who didn't read the article, talking about how they're not surprised Firefox 3.1 outperforms IE8 when IE8 wasn't benchmarked.
Re:Simple Really (Score:4, Funny)
They did say that IE was a basic building block of their product and that removing it would slow everything down and would make it suck.
Imagine... a windows OS that sucks.
Mind thrashing, ey?
Re:Simple Really (Score:5, Funny)
This can't be true because Google said they would do no evil. Unless OH SH-
I won't use FF 3.1 (Score:2, Funny)
I'm holding out for FIrefox 3.11 for Workgroups
SilverLight Test? (Score:5, Funny)
Where's the SilverLight test, huh? I bet IE wins that one..
Re:And yet (Score:3, Funny)
Opera: An inconvenient browser
Hey, if the truth is going to be modded flamebait, might as well make it flamebait. amirite?
Georgia (Score:5, Funny)
I think it's Georgia. Internally Microsoft doesn't use terms like "alpha" and "beta": a product starts in "Florida" and moves closer to Redmond, so "Washington" means "bug-free". When it reaches "Georgia", it's ready to ship.
Re:And yet (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And yet (Score:0, Redundant)
Their speeds all suck next to lynx!
Bah! you damn moderators can't accept the truth!
Re:And yet (Score:5, Funny)
(actually, modding redundant implies that they had already accepted it)
Re:What's "GA"? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:And yet (Score:5, Funny)
When rendering a big scene here, Safari will do it in a fraction of the time using 60mb of RAM, whereas Firefox 3.1beta's memory usage spirals out of control and into swap space.
Wow, 60 milli-bits of RAM, that's more than amazing!
Re:And yet (Score:5, Funny)
Yes but I have 1.21 jiggawhats of CPU
Re:And yet (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And yet (Score:5, Funny)
Pshaw! Youngster. Your UID barely fits inside 16 bits. In _my_ day we had to whistle the 1's and 0's through an acoustic coupler!
Re:Simple Really (Score:1, Funny)
Actually, IE has many features that Firefox lacks. For example, IE does filebrowsing, gives you a taskbar, renders icons on the desktop, executes computer startup scripts, and many other things which you'd never ever want a webbrowser to do.
Re:And yet (Score:2, Funny)
There is no spoon?
Well then, we're forked.