I affirm again, that Opera is the fastest browser out there. I’m not liking Firefox that much anymore, it’s laggy and a bit clunky. Laggy even with that speed hack you may have run into, which actually didn’t really make much of a difference despite what I may have said at first… it must have been all psychological. Like shoes guaranteed to make you run faster and jump higher. Opera is snappy and gives off an effortless feel; you use its built-in mouse gestures and instantly go back and forward no matter how complex a page is. With Firefox there’s a small but perceptible delay, and the same thing goes for just normal navigation. I’m working with pages being served up by a server running on my own computer, so there really should be no delay at all, because it’s not like the data actually has to go anywhere. Yet with Firefox there still is that little delay. Clunky; still good; but doesn’t really have a useful function between the other two big browsers, both of which are useful for different things. There’s the whole benefit of Firefox being open source, with an open add-on architecture, and all that. Yet I’ve browsed through lists of available plugins, and haven’t found anything I really need or feel like installing. Firefox has built-in RSS management, but I’m fine with Bloglines for handling RSS subscriptions, since that’s simple enough and as a Web-based program I can use it on any computer and pick up where I left off. There’s Firefox’s tabbed browsing feature, yet Opera did tabs first, and still does it best. I don’t want to have to think, whenever I load a page, about whether it’ll go into a tab or not. With Firefox I could load it into a tab, but I have to take a special action (holding down the Ctrl key) to get that to happen. Strangely enough, there’s no option to make all pages load by default into tabs, which you’d think should be something pretty basic. Perhaps Firefox would shine when used over a modem connection, if only because of the way it loads images (i.e., in smaller chunks than I.E. (ha) or Opera). Anyway, it’s mainly about that lag when loading even localhost pages. But it could be just something I notice, like monitor refresh rates and mouse lag, which no one else I point this out to seems to be able to notice.