Is this why Mozilla is faster?

[Tim]

I've just done a review of a site about Key West at http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=25311 and have noticed an interesting feature of Firefox.

The site, compiled in MS Office (!), comprises wholly of images, including text. Check out how the text looks in IE then use a Mozilla based browser, I used Firefox. The text looks awful on Mozilla but OK in IE.

Is Mozilla faster because it actually further optimises images? Here in the UK there's been a lot of hype about a program called OnSpeed which is supposed to match broadband on a normal dial-up connection but it's a trick because they really over-optimise images to the point where you can't see what it is. Is Firefox doing the same?

I really like Firefox and hadn't noticed a reduction of image quality until I saw this site.

What do you reckon?

[flood6]

Aside from very minor differences, the site you mentioned looks the same in FF as it does in IE for me.

[jScott_Harris]

Actually, if you'll look, in firefox, it's showing an image ( http://www.keywesttravelguide.com/in...s/image003.gif), and in IE it just displays text(simply highlight it)... why it's done this way is beyond me. There must be something on the server level that outputs the index page according to the browser and the designer must not have much faith in firefox(personally I think it's the best thing since corn dogs and back hair wax)...go fig!

[rocky1]

Good call Scott. They're running different pages for the different browsers, see the document head structure and in particular the titles.

<Title>Key West Travel Guide. Florida Keys & Key West Vacations.</Title>

<title>Firefox - The Browser, Reloaded</title>

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Back to bootboy's question on whether that's why Mozilla Browsers are faster loading however... I read somewhere that many of the Mozilla Browsers incorporate a graphics accelerator, thus the download of graphics is considerably faster on these browsers in an attempt to one up IE.

I would assume it all a waste on DSL connections. On the other hand however... although I haven't really tried it in FireFox, Opera is considerably faster than IE on Dial-Up when downloading pictures. If I'm browsing allot of images, I always use Opera.