Internet Explorer 7 on Vista is 3 times SLOWER than Firefox

Do with this information what you will. This probably accounts for some disparity between those who are OK with the show report and those that are not.

BTW, IE 6 on my old XP laptop is pretty darn good – not as fast as Firefox, but close.

For those that do not know, Firefox is another browser, more or less a spin-off from the old Netscape. About 36% of the people who visit our websites use Firefox.

If you want to try Firefox, and it will not interfere with IE, search for Firefox download and proceed from there to install it on your computer – my daughter did it a few months ago and she said it was easy and she is usually computer shy [go figure].

For you others, IE 8 will be out shortly and I am sure Microsoft will be annoying you to upgrade. I think IE 8 will be as fast as Firefox with respect to reading the magazine [based on the yet even faster Google ‘Chrome” browser we are also starting to work with. Of course, Firefox 3.1 will be out soon too, which will raise the bar yet again :-)].

In the mean tine, we will try and put SOME speed ups in the magazine just for IE [which will delay the release of the page-turning speed upgrade for everyone]. But Like I said below, it is like Vista – big and slow – and in this case they do not seem all that interested in improving it [but at least they are more interested in it now than they have been over the last 5 years].

OK. Now back to our scheduled program of high-end audio. 🙂