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OT: Winblows internet
« on: September 23, 2003, 10:23:36 PM »
Sorry its a PC question...BUUUUT

I've recently installed Win2000 on the laptop. I have downloaded Opera, and use a combination of Opera and IE. Trouble is, IE seems to be unnaturally slow (I HAVE to use IE for some things unfortunately). It was never that bad when I was running Win98. Any ideas?

Oh, before anyone suggests netscape, I just don't have the room for it and all the other #### it tries to install on my system...

Thanks in advance
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Re: OT: Winblows internet
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2003, 11:19:24 PM »
What about mozillafirebird? Total space of 6megs, and is fast as hell compared to other browsers out there.
http://downloads.mozdev.org/seb/MozillaFirebird-0.6.1-setup.exe
No idea on why IE can be so much slower than on 98 though.
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Re: OT: Winblows internet
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2003, 11:24:01 PM »
It`s not IE being slow..it`s Opera being fast !

The immediate things that spring to mind that could slow IE..
 Spyware "Browser Enhancements"
 Disk cache too small or corrupt
 Maybe set up to use a proxy server (proxy could be slow, or the connection to the proxy is slow)
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Re: OT: Winblows internet
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2003, 11:47:13 PM »
I switched from IE to Opera on all of my PCs, and now recommend it to  my friends - it's just that much better - like comparing your Amiga to an Atari  :-D  :-D
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Re: OT: Winblows internet
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2003, 11:52:12 PM »
Thanks Doobrey - for some reason the proxy server setting was checked, now its much faster.

The reason I have to use IE is that Opera just doesn't seem to work with some of the banking/sharedealing sites I use...

I might check out that mozillafirebird tho'

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Re: OT: Winblows internet
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2003, 12:08:08 AM »
I hate such sites, that only supports IE.. This for me personally would be reason enough to switch bank.
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Re: OT: Winblows internet
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2003, 12:24:27 AM »
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The reason I have to use IE is that Opera just doesn't seem to work with some of the banking/sharedealing sites I use...
have you considered changing opera's spoofing as IE just before you go into your bank site?

i have used opera all this year and it's FABULOUS!
also, make sure to use zonealarm and you'll never get bad things accessing your system. :-D
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Re: OT: Winblows internet
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2003, 01:12:13 PM »
just surfing with that mozilla build now...and you're right it is damn fast! don't know how it compares to opera tho'
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Re: OT: Winblows internet
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2003, 04:28:47 AM »
It's probably faster than Opera on most things. I haven't compared them as such, but Firebird feels faster in general. I really like Mozilla but as Opera is a Norwegian product I kind of feel that I have to use it... Maybe I should even pay for it soon  :-D

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Re: OT: Winblows internet
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2003, 05:41:53 AM »
I recommend you get TWEAK-XP from total Idea software it will take care of your speed issues..

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Re: OT: Winblows internet
« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2003, 09:30:51 AM »
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Cyberus wrote:
Sorry its a PC question...BUUUUT

I've recently installed Win2000 on the laptop. I have downloaded Opera, and use a combination of Opera and IE. Trouble is, IE seems to be unnaturally slow (I HAVE to use IE for some things unfortunately). It was never that bad when I was running Win98. Any ideas?

Oh, before anyone suggests netscape, I just don't have the room for it and all the other #### it tries to install on my system...

Thanks in advance

The amount of physical memory can play a big part in NT 5.X/IE’s performance....
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Re: OT: Winblows internet
« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2003, 11:31:32 AM »
Btw, there's about a meg difference in the installation footprint between Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird.  Firebird is allegedly still faster on startup though.

(win32) There's a directory called 'mozilla.org' in Common Files which contains the Gecko Runtime Environment.  That weighs in at ~15MB.  About the same with Mozilla.  Otherwise the app install dir sizes are a few megs different in size.
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