[Piskvorrr]

That's the Endless Treadmill. Netscape Navigator is slow, use this new and fast browser called IE. [time passes] IE is slow, use this new and fast browser called Firefox. [time passes] Firefox is slow, use this new and fast browser called Chrome. Chrome is slow...[to be continued]

[NTripleOne]

But the thing is, Chrome isn't slow.

[Piskvorrr]

Neither is Firefox. (Unless you clobber them with a bazillion extensions, leave Flash always-on and open 3000 tabs) However, that is the perception.

I agree that in the recent years there's been a major push to make browsers great again, but the speed comes at expense of memory bloat. This might be an acceptable tradeoff - until you need to do something non-browser as well.

[NTripleOne]

Firefox has come a long way since the day I switched that's for sure, but it was slow back then, and that was before I even had the necessity for any extensions.

Even now, for me Chrome cold boots far faster than Firefox does - after doing a taskkill /f /im chrome.exe, chrome opens anywhere from 0.4 to 1.2 seconds after hitting "ok" on a run dialog with "chrome" entered in it, but the same thing with "firefox" in it takes from 3 to 8 seconds to open.

And that's not even a fair test either, as chrome has about 20 or so extensions installed and firefox has none.

Don't even get me started on the android variants of the two either, firefox just feels sluggish and unresponsive next to chrome.

[Piskvorrr]

Not sure about Android, but is cold boot time representative of anything? Personally, I do that two-three times a day, max. Open/close tabs, now that happens all the time. (To be precise: I don't care which browser does it fastest. All I care is that I don't perceive latency - milliseconds do not matter, hundreds of milliseconds do)

[NTripleOne]

Well in that case, warm booting chrome is even faster again.

[Piskvorrr]

Good. As long as there's competition, this will put pressure on all browser makers to keep theirs fast as well.