Turning Off the Phishing Filter in IE7 Makes it as Fast as Firefox v3.0...?
Rod Trent reports in yesterday's MyITForum.com newsletter that he's been experimenting around with Firefox v3.0 and IE7. In his testing, he's found visible evidence that disabling Microsoft's Phishing filter in IE7 actually improves the speed of IE7 up to the legendary levels seen by Firefox v3.0.
I personally have been running with the Phishing filter disabled since shortly after IE7's release. My own testing found it to be...well...less than useful. But, I'm not the type to surf towards most classes of quasi-legitimate websites anyway (seriously).
Have you seen similar behavior? I know that the Phishing filter requires every click to go through an additional HTTP lookup to a MIcrosoft clearinghouse, which can effectively double the amount of time required to render each page after a click.
Do you feel that turning off the filter for the speed boost is worth the loss of protection. I would tend to think so. What are your thoughts?
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Posted by: Rod Trent | June 20, 2008 12:48 PM
I do not think turning off anti-phishing filters is a good idea. I know lots of people do not like Microsoft, but it is not the reason to stop using their best features. Even if IE7 anti-phishing filter is not the best, it still ensures security. The clearing house is updated quite often, and if your connection is broadband (which is a standard in the western world at least), and your computer is Core2Duo-powered, I would strongly advise to keep on using IE7 with the filter turned on.
PS: My Firefox is really sluggish when I open more than 10 tabs, so I often use IE instead...
Posted by: Kotto form Safety Surfers | June 22, 2008 3:51 AM
When will Microsoft develop an OS that just works? No hesitating, patches, repatches, service packs, bugs. Just a slim, fast operating SYSTEM.
Posted by: Don | June 29, 2008 3:33 AM