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Steve and I are seeing different performace profiles between IE 6 and Mozilla 0.9.9. I'm running a 256MB 700Mhz Celeron on Windows ME. IE has always been dog slow on this system, pausing while loading pages, even on a DSL line.

I have done some experimenting and how I load new pages makes a big difference when using Mozilla. I tend to keep a lot of browser windows open, somewhere between 3 and 5, and when I hit an interesting link I have the habit if right clicking and selecting "Open in New Window", which is real slow under Mozilla. Selecting "Open in New Tab", on the other hand, is very fast. I get the feeling that the big performance drain is XUL and handling all the chrome.

Two more exciting bits about Mozilla:

Soap Scripts

You can, or shall I say should, be able to make SOAP calls from JavaScript. Tried it out today and got a failure when I called invoke(). This could easily be operator error. I will post more as I learn.

XP

XPCOM, XPConnect, XPToolkit, etc. These are the open source, cross platform libraries upon which Mozilla is built. Definitely a place to start looking if you need to develop a cross-platform application.