[petsos]

I'm sorry but this mentality is everything that is wrong with software development. How is bloat not an issue now? We expect that hardware is getting better and better, but it is ok for software to become worse and worse just because it can sort of get away with it?

In this case Firefox has even managed to outperform Moore's law. It managed to become slower in a faster rate than computers get faster.

[glenjamin]

"Worse" in this case is subjective. Perhaps firefox today is objectively not as good for me (as a developer) as it was at 1.0.

My argument is that I'm not necessarily the main target demographic any more, Firefox 3.6 is fast enough and has the features that Joe average wants.