[Cialug] Web Slowing Down

[David Champion]

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I have had the distinct experience of web surfing slowing down over
>> the past year or two.  I've had the same computer for the past two
>> years and my Internet service provider has not changed.  But more
>> consistently, as time goes on, it's slow to scroll web pages and my
>> favorite flash game will get clunky slow as something else is loading.
>>
>> I believe it has something to do with the fact that *everything* these
>> days is Flash that, Ajax this.
>>     
>
> http://www.bearfruit.org/blog/2007/10/26/the-webpage-that-ate-my-battery
>
> That said, browsers are also running javascript faster and, bucking
> the trend, Firefox 3 uses less resources than Firefox 2. It's possible
> things have changed on your computer to cause the problem. For example
> a video card driver may need an update.
>
>   

I've noticed that lately some of the blogs that I read like 
boingboing.net, autoblog, engadget... have gotten so jazzed up that if 
you have more than 3 or 4 of those types of pages open in tabs, your 
browser can become just about unresponsive.

Here's a roundup of the current and upcoming releases of all the major 
browsers, showing the performance, ACID test results etc:

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/browser_brouhaha_your_maximum_guide_browsers_today_and_tomorrow?page=0%2C0

Looks like FF 3.1, and the new Opera are both pretty nice. I personally 
haven't used Opera much - I used it way back when it first came out, and 
stopped shortly after they came out with the version with the imbedded 
banner ads.

-dc