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But why?

It's a browser. All it should do (and do well) is display content.

I don't want a bunch of extra garbage tossed in because it sounds good on some marketing slide.

Chrome has been and continues to eat FF's marketshare alive because it has been both faster and lighter. More junk is not going to help FF beat them.

[newscracker]

> Chrome has been and continues to eat FF's marketshare alive because it has been both faster and lighter.

I believe Chrome got a larger market share also because it had the giant force of Google marketing it heavily on its properties for years, whereas Firefox only had some support of that sort from the Yahoo search deal (IIRC). More people land on Google's online properties than on Yahoo's.

I personally don't agree that Chrome is faster and lighter. For me (as a heavy multi-tab user) it has always been slow as molasses and a laggy browser.

[Certhas]

Firefox is as fast and lighter, and has been for a while (the exception being Googles own webapps that are heavily Chrome optimized). This is stuff they are testing out in TestPilot, so it's for people who want to go add the TestPilot add on and then selectively enable these features.

So your complaint really makes zero sense.