You could always place a "Runs best on Firefox" icon on the portal. (Hey, I have
to constantly curse narrow-minded web site designers who think that everyone uses IE and
who therefore don't even try to make their site usable with Firefox - it's about
time there was some payback.)
But more seriously, here are some of the things I would try in this situation.
1) Run a proxy server and route every request through that proxy server. Both JMeter and
Grinder come with proxy servers. The nice thing is that the proxy servers capture all of
the web requests, mainly so that you can replay it. But those requests include timings
that can tell you what the delay was between the requests. (I think the timings are on by
default in Grinder, but have to be selected in JMeter.). Once the proxy is set up, access
the portal with Firefox, and then again with IE. Compare the timings as captured by the
proxy. That might give you some idea of where to start looking.
2) Compare the html source of the final page as grabbed by IE and Firefox. This might also
give some hints as to what is different.
3) Use system tools to monitor CPU usage and network usage. If IE shows higher CPU usage
that Firefox, perhaps some of the JavaScript is giving IE problems. If IE shows greater
network usage, then perhaps it is not caching something that it could (item #1 could point
that out).
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