Firefox and Opera = Slow, IE6=Fast!

[osaddict]

Hey all,

I expect the majority of you use Firefox, I too used to use Firefox all the time, however, for some reason it became very slow with EBAY, so I switched to Opera - this seemed quicker, but then it too slowed down with ebay.

I was in the awful situation last night where old IE 6 was loading ebay pages far far quicker - sometimes I was even getting the customised ebay 'page is not responding' when using Firefox and or Opera - but not once with IE

Clearly I hate using IE, especially IE 6 with no tabs! - Any ideas why Firefox and Opera would be so slow and lame - predominantly with ebay :(

(Yeah, I am a bit of an ebay addict too :p ebay.co.uk that is)

[CB]

Being the most predominant browser, eBay is optimized to work best with IE.

This might be noticeable especially if you are using one of the more complex parts of the site, like the seller interface.

[osaddict]

I guess that makes sense, however, it seems nearly identical on my work pc- opera, ie and firefox being v similar.

I have just upgraded my zone alarm from 6.5 to 7, aparantly 6.5 had some 'issues' so we will see.

[mtrox]

I have just upgraded my zone alarm from 6.5 to 7, aparantly 6.5 had some 'issues' so we will see.

"Issues"? It was/is crap. I've poked all kinds of holes in 6.5 but still, I just have to shut it down to connect with my Cisco VPN's. By default it blocks access to your ISP's DNS servers, and I gave up browsing by NETBIOS names...unless I shut it down. Granted, once my little network at the house is all set up I only need to do that about once a year, but the whole ZA thing just kinda feels like a mess.

If you think of it oss, PM me with an opinion after you've had it a couple weeks.

[osaddict]

Clearly one evening (around 2hrs) is not long enough to form a decent opinion, but already it feels better.

I intend to rack up a few torrents tonight - aparantly ZA and multiple torrents was a problem - that would certainly explain why I had errors with vsmon.exe when I woke up after I had racked up around 5-6 torrents...

We shall see

[mtrox]

This all your fault osaddict. I thought I'd give it a try. Worse yet. OK, I didn't do a full uninstall and all the searching stuff you are manually supposed to do that their uninstall program should do. I just upgraded the 6.5 that's in place. Now I'm worse off. I still can't browse networks by NETBIOS and my Cisco VPN still doesn't work (and ZA still doesn't log a frig'n thing it's blocking when my VPN fails). But now when I kill ZA to connect with my Cisco VPN, after I'm done I can't bring ZA back up. I see some ZA screens fly by, then nothing.

Honestly it's like Norton now. It doesn't really uninstall all the way, it doesn't log well so you can poke a hole through it. I'm seriously considering just using the Windows Firewall. I use it on many of my clients who don't know a dress from an IP address. They never get crud if they keep their anti-v up. I don't need all the sky-is-falling security stuff if it means my computer doesn't work.

^^my rant for the day^^

[osaddict]

Ouch! That's not good, sorry about that

I did an uninstall and a fresh reinstall - as advised on the zone alarm forums, but then I do that for most of the stuff I install.

It's early days atm obviously, but i think its better than 6.5 atm

[Sledgehammer70]

TBH I have noticed FF running very slow aswell and IE to be very fast.