[jwr]

Unfortunately, this is not true. I wish it were.

Firefox's JavaScript engine is still slower and large JavaScript apps become sluggish more quickly.

Also, I still haven't found a way to let users download files from JavaScript (e.g. through a button click that invokes a function) in Firefox, that wouldn't open another window and in the process close their websocket connection.

[newscracker]

> Chrome's memory management is abysmal.

This was true (I no longer use Chrome and don’t know if it’s improved in the last two years). Chrome needed enormous amounts of memory compared to Firefox. Using RAM is not an issue as such, but it makes other applications running at the same time miserable (and the user too).