I take “it”:http://yergler.net/blog/archives/2004/08/31/camino-081-out-and-boy-is-it-fast back. Yes, Camino is faster than Firefox 0.9.3. However, I just downloaded Firefox 1.0 Preview Release, and (excuse my, er, French) Holy Fuck (or is that Fuque?). I know it’s not scientific, but the Firefox 1.0 Preview Release starts in a single Dock “bounce,” compared with 2 for Camino 0.8.1, and 4 for 0.9.3. If this is any sort of preview of things to come in the *real* 1.0 release, Firefox will (does) crush the “competition”:http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx. It hardly seems fair.
Now, what can be done about Thunderbird’s abysmal startup speed? Anybody? Anybody?