jmtyra
you are absolutely correct...conveninece will definately translate into speed
this is a big reason mozilla and opera and pheonix, (and crazy browser and my ie) prove faster then ie for people that find good use for the extra features.
kevin...opera may have improved in page loads since I last tested, ( it;s beeen years), so I can be wrong in my opinion.
a good example might be though my experience with mozilla
it might have been, (as an example hypothetically), mozilla loaded an image faaster then ie...the first time...but mozilla just cannot make efficient use of temporary intenet files, and so if mozilla did infact load images faster then ie, (no, just a point I'm making), then ie more then made up for it in efficient use of the temporary internet files.
but as I said, I haven't tested opera in years, so it might well be faster in pageloading then ie,
I would think of testing opera again when I am finnished with pheonix testing...but to be honest, I am so looking forward to getting back to ie, that I will not be testing another browser for quite some time