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[quote user="Semper Vaporo"]I don't really doubt anyone's feeling that one browser is "faster" than another, but I am wondering how you are reaching this conclusion. <blockquote> <div> </div> </blockquote> Have you been running one browser for a while and then using the other one for a similar period of time to base your conclusion or are you running them simultaneously trying to access the same web pages? Are you testing using two different computers?  Even if the same make and model, cache loadings and disk drive fragmentation will affect the speed of the computer to accomplish tasks. Do you reboot between tests? Do you clear the cache between tests? Do you test browser "A" and then "B" and then repeat the tests by using "B" first and then "A"... To eliminate the possibility that the first browser used to access a certain page has not preloaded some intermediate cache with the data for the second one to access quicker (nor having to going through the whole web to fetch the data)?  Even anti-malware software might be re-using cached malware database files that will speed up subsequent malware testing and thus affect apparent load times. There are many things that go on in the internet that are almost beyond the reach of understanding to know why things seem to behave one way or another.  I have noted several times that just one particular page from some web site will load at different speeds depending on which random advertisement is called each time.  Some will load rapidly and others will load slowly... some I know I have "blocked" the URL and the web page then senses that the advert didn't load, so it selects some other advert to substitute for the 1st one and that will affect the load times.  System caches, both on my PC and on the various servers will affect the load time. Time of day (and thus overall web traffic) will affect load times also (i.e.: did you test one browser in the morning and the other in the afternoon). I appreciate people attesting to their favourite browser, but I'd like some bona fide test data, too.[/quote] It was not my intent to extol the virtues of the Firefox browser.  Actually my preferred browser of choice is IE8.  Additionally, my computer and ISP are geared for high speed broadband use.  However, I am finding a noticeable "lag time" on the trains.com site when using IE8.  I do not find this to be the case with Firefox.
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