A while back I wrote about my frustration with Firefox’s poor Java performance on Java intensive sites, most notably while using Google’s Analytics or making a new [and editing] posts on Blogger.
It seemed that Google did a change to solve this problem though I did experience this problem still on other websites or if I had a lot of other tabs running [I have a habit of opening up many tabs of tangential info for later perusing]. That and editing on Blogger was still better with IE.
I also noticed another problem when opening up another site or downloading a file. The browser would seem to hang, you couldn’t do anything for a second or two and then all of a sudden things would be moving. I tested IE 6 on these sites with downloading and opening up in a new window and IE was incredibly robust and responsive by comparison.
Firefox 1.5.0.6 finally brings Firefox where it should be making it more usable than IE. The tab feature for me makes Firefox head and shoulders over IE 6 now that Firefox seems to have resolved it’s performance issues. It’s no longer painful to edit on Blogger with Firefox and downloading files no longer causes brief lockups of the browser.