Netscape = slow. IE = fast

[joelwenzel]

I am running the newest versions of both netscape and IE and I have noticed that netscape is much slower.

It takes a lot longer for netscape to open a page

I am current developing a tab bar in css that uses display: none and display: block.

In IE I can switch betweens tabs at an equal pace while in netscape, tabs with just text and a few form objects load much faster than tabs with lots of form objects and pictures.

My pages use quite a bit of asp to get values for form objects and I wonder if that would have anything to do with the speed. Asp is a server side language though so I don't think netscape even sees it

 

[BlueMango]

Though I hate to say it, yes, Netscape is actually slower in a lot of cases - under windows at least. I personally believe this is largely due to IE's integration with the Windows operating environment.
However, when displaying properly made HTML pages (ie. those that use only public standard coding, and don't have a lot of mistakes), I find that Netscape actually comes out ahead of IE in display time. Unfortunately, the vast majority of pages on the web today are NOT properly coded, or use one of more of a wide range of languages other than HTML (ie. flash, java, etc.)

One thing in particular that has always bugged me about Netscape is that it has to take the time to load its Java engine every first time its needed in a session! IE seems to use a java engine that is already loaded in the Windows environment (I may be wrong about this). -----------------------
*doink!*