I have noticed that the loading/browsing speed is slower in Firefox.
And I tested with the most used norwegian speed test at
http://speed.bredbandsguiden.no.
With Firefox (3, 11, 12, 13 and 14 versions) I get a download speed of 13 Mbps.
If I run the same test with IE8 I get 26 Mbps (much closer to my line speed).
On the Firefox newsgroup they asked me to try disabling things to lock down the source.
And when I disabled the "Web shield" in avast! I suddenly got full speed in Firefox too.
So the question is: Why a 10 Mbps speed drop in Firefox with Web-shield on - but not in IE8?
Does IE8 bypass the Web shield (that is BAD) or is avast optimized for IE8 (and why)?