it's cool.... I'l just use ie.... bummer! On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Dazed_75 wrote: > Ditto, I use them on multiple machines and the only times I have seen such > slowness is when: > - I am doing big downloads on the same machine or LAN > - tools like traceroute show me there is slowness in the path to the domain > I am viewing. > > Otherwise both seem speedy and seldom, if ever, crash. > > OTOH, I just replaced my gaming machine and find that an internet > connection problem I had with World of Warcraft has disappeared. > Particularly interesting since WOW was moved to the new machine by simply > transferring the files to the new machine (meaning that the application > software did not change). The old machine was a dual boot XP and Ubuntu > 9.10 (this machine in fact). Ubuntu has always been faster downloading from > the internet than XP. Somehow, over time, XP's internet access seemed to > get worse (and yes, it was cleaned, defragged, and registry cleaned). > > So before you condemn the browsers, try them in different environments to > check if the environment isn't the root cause. > > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> when I load google chrome on my xp laptop pages take forever to load.... >> well, at least it doesn't cause scripts in gmail to stop running (like >> firefox did). I can't be a special case! if chrome and firefox want to >> compete with ie they need to work the bugs out before release.... or am I so >> special after all? >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> written from ie rather than chrome >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry > > The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, > that I wish it always to be kept alive. > - Thomas Jefferson > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: