whos flaming who? have u even read my post?
and firebird DOESNT render pages faster than ie, it STARTS rendering pages faster than IE because it renders everything on the fly instead of waiting, im afraid its just a simple fact that IE finishes loading pages faster than firebird does. in addition to this a lot of the time you cannot click any links while firebird is loading a page, it does nothing, making its on the fly rendering pretty useless if you ask me.
in terms of speed im not talking about startup speed but even if i was, the fact of the matter is IE STARTS FASTER for every single user in the world, whether thats down to some of it being loaded already or not is totally irrelevant due to the fact that you cannot (and 99% of users would not anyway) remove it from being loaded during startup. im talking about the numerous rendering tests that have been done in the firebird builds forums showing the java performance of MS JVM being severla hundred percent faster than the sun one on firebird, as well as other general rendering being faster. its a myth that firebird is faster in ANYTHING over IE, a myth brought about because to the naked eye it seems to be loading faster purely down to it starting to render the page on the fly, and at an earlier stage than ie, but its quickly overtaken by IE before the page has completed loading.
im not going to argue it anymore, ive been using firebird for over a year and just gone back to IE, and i KNOW the difference. and its a HELL of a lot more than "a few pages" that dont work properly.