Re: Poll: Firefox 3 Beta slower than Firefox 2?

In article <gkreme-003163.07224214022008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Lewis <gkreme@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article 
> <jollyroger-09F12E.21261713022008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > In article 
> > <doraymeRidThis-A36139.12280514022008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >  dorayme <doraymeRidThis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > In article 
> > > <dsaur-DF314E.19555913022008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >  "Drew D. Saur" <dsaur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > > > Now Firefox 3 is much faster. Maybe even faster than Firefox 2...
> > > 
> > > What are you measuring exactly? My Safari opens like a bolt of 
> > > lightening whereas FF (which I need and use too) comes on like it 
> > > is doing me a favour, 
> > 
> > Now try it again with AdBlock Plus installed:
> > 
> > <http://adblockplus.org/>
> > 
> > <http://adblockplus.org/en/installation>
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> Adblock plus is the reason I use FF over Safari.  Especially with sites 
> like imdb that have gotten damn right belligerent in their advertising 
> tactics.
> 
> But Safari is faster across the board, especially the Webkit nightly 
> build.

I don't find Safari to be faster (I gave some approximate times in a 
previous post in this thread), but even if it were marginally faster, 
it's the extensibility that keeps me using Firefox.

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