Originally Posted by
Shimon
China bandwidth to the outside world + more filtering = crapnet.
Opera works a lot faster in China. Mostly because it renders the page without completely download it. Therefore, you don't have to wait for the blocked content to timeout before the page loads.
I've actually got IE, Firefox, and Opera loaded up. With IE mostly for Chinese-based websites that don't work well in the other two. I have definitely found that certain websites/pages load better in Opera 11.51 than in Firefox 7.0.1 however, changing browsers doesn't solve the fundamental problems already identified: bandwidth + filtering.