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Originally Posted by Rawr
I hate to break it to you, but it isn't. Infact I just tested it. Downloaded Firefox just for you guys, feel proud. I wiped my cache and made sure I used a site which I haven't been on since I reinstalled Vista, so there wasn't any of the images left on the pc which would of made the test unfair. Also used an heavily html website. Used the exact same stopwatch. Started the stop watch as soon as i pressed enter on both times. I got pretty much the same results on both browsers, 6.8seconds on Internet Explorer 8 and 6.9seconds on Firefox 3.5. So clearly, there isn't a big difference.
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Well, if you wipe the cache on both and measure the load time, then that's pretty much what you can expect (seeing as the server responses are the bottleneck here). Try to load some long files from HDD and see what happens, for example:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
