[daleharvey]

can people not downvote genuine questions below 0, this was not trolling, downvoting is not for general disagreement.

xul which is used by firefox to render the ui, while being really easy to use and modify, is incredibly slow, firefoxs renderer is also a little slower, but I think most of it is on the responsiveness in the ui, most people attribute this to the different javascript engines but actually they are very similiar in speed.

[pbhjpbhj]

The two computers I use most, an Athlon 1.1G with 768MB and a dual core Athlon 64 X2 4000+ with 2G both run chrome more snappily and lock up far less often than with FF. FF is still my browser of choice as I'm used to firebug and the other addons.

The limitation appears to be flash handling. Practically every website has some flash if only for cookies and/or adverts.