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I have difficulty using web-based apps because they are just too slow for me. I am a bit of a speed freak, tweaking and overclocking, etc. -- but I do value my
by quoderat 18y ago
I have difficulty using web-based apps because they are just too slow for me. I am a bit of a speed freak, tweaking and overclocking, etc. -- but I do value my time and I've never used a web-based app whose speed pleased me.
If I have a choice, I'll stick with desktop applications forever.
Sure, they're the right solution sometimes. But that doesn't mean I want to use them if I can help it.
- babul 18y agoGMail seems pretty fast to me, often faster than Outlook on my desktop which is synced to it.
- gsmaverick 18y agoWhat browser are you using? That usually is most of the problem. Chrome chews through even the toughest javascript-based apps, including gmail, greader, facebook. It's way faster to load a web page than to open an application on my own machine.
- quoderat 18y agoI use Firefox 3.0.5 on Linux. I have 10,000RPM drives in RAID 0, so my computer is always faster to open a local app than to open a webpage.
- arockwell 18y agoWhen I put ubuntu on my machine at home firefox 3 seemed substantially slower than it did on windows. I'm not sure if FF3 is crappy on iinux or if there was something about my install that was screwed up.
- boucher 18y agoFirefox has some serious issues on Linux. It's admirable that they make a browser for Linux, but they do seem to let a lot more fall through the cracks than on other platforms. For example, I've seen several websites that crash Linux in Firefox -- not good. The rendering in general is also not as good as win/mac, esp. with respect to transparency.
- quoderat 18y agoStrange -- it seems faster in Linux to me than in Windows, though I've never done any formal benchmarks. Haven't had any crashing problems, either.
- sho 18y agoYou're using a web-based app right now ...