no, I do not use Mozilla... I said I use Firebird - which is not the same as Mozilla, rather a lighter (and thus significantly faster) version. Now I have dial-up (broadband is still priced too much, despite the advantages <sigh>) so page rendering times actually matter to me. On a broadband connection, for most pages it shouldn't take more than a few seconds either way. So you see, the page rendering time is a much more important issue on my dial-up machine rather than your (presumably) broadband-connected computer. IE will lock up for maybe 1 second or so when loading extremely large pages, and that 1 second of non-responsiveness is very unacceptable to me... indeed FB just "works", i.e. it has a much cleaner layout (even though it doesn't have support for things such as the google toolbar, even though it has it's own version of it, without anything but the search) doesn't do those lockups where it'll freeze for maybe a few seconds then go back to normal... also there isn't a huge wait where nothing happens on the screen while it's loading... FB renders it as it receives the data - which is how it's SUPPOSED to be done. Very true, IE is a much more mature product than FB, but FB is a good BASIC browser - don't ask me about MOzilla because I don't use it. BTW, perhaps the mozilla version you use was some while ago? Try a new one, that might help, but I haven't used it in over a year - I'm not sure about MOzilla being significantly faster than IE (since i haven't used it in a long time) but FB definitely is.
~ApT~
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