What do you feel are the greatest strengths and weaknesses of Safari? What do you feel are the greatest strengths and weaknesses of Opera? So yes, it's definitely something we have as a continual priority. Brendan Eich recently blogged about Mozilla 2, which will contain even more improvements for performance. Zimbra, who makes a really rich web-based productivity suite also recently posted that by their internal tests, "Firefox was more than twice as fast as IE 7 and four times faster than IE 6".īut we're still looking to do better, and the next version of Gecko (the platform which is used for rendering web pages) has several improvements to our graphics infrastructure and layout engine which should continue to speed up our page rendering time. We're hearing a lot of positive feedback about the performance of Firefox 2 as compared to Internet Explorer 7, especially on interactive web sites (even Robert Scoble recently blogged that "Firefox 2 was a LOT faster on AJAX".
We're really happy with Firefox 2, it's a very solid release with three or four times the amount of fixes and work as went into 1.5. I would like to know if Mozilla has made it a priority in the past to give FF a rendering speed competitive with or faster than IE, and if we will see FF becoming competitive with or faster than IE in rendering web pages in future releases? Thanks.Ĭhris: Performance continues to be a high priority for us, and we test every nightly build to make sure that we're getting faster, not slower than our previous releases. With the release of IE7, Microsoft has made IE at least feel faster than before, and it certainly has adopted many features that made FF such a stand-out, security not withstanding. Ģ) FireFox 2 Rendering Speed Compared to IE7ĭear Chris Beard, I have used Firefox since before 1.0, and one thing that Internet Explorer has always beaten FF on is rendering speed.
Of course there wasn't nearly enough of it to go around since there are thousands of people worldwide working together to make Firefox possible, but those of us at the Mountain View office made sure to enjoy it for everybody :). (Since this was sort of a "companion" interview to one we did just before it with MSIE dude Dean Hachamovitch, you might want to look at the two Q&A posts side by side and compare the way they answered.)Ĭhris: It was a nice surprise actually, and we think it's great that Microsoft is taking an interest in browser development again. Chris Beard was "point" on this interview, but got help writing his answers to your questions from other Mozilla and Firefox people.
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