[technomancy]

I was wooed away by Chrome's speed around a year ago, but after using it a few months I naturally was looking at extending it. It's night and day compared to Mozilla. All the interesting UI bits (tab switcher, menu, location bar) are hard-coded in C++; none of it's extensible via JS.

Once I realized this the magic was gone and Chrome held zero appeal to me. Luckily that was right around when the improved JIT in FF4 started getting usable with Conkeror, (http://conkeror.org) so I was able to switch back to the Moz without a noticeable speed hit. And what an amazing difference in flexibility... I don't know what I was thinking.

This is not so much about Firefox itself; as an application it's pretty meh, but as a platform it's excellent. It's the only thing I've ever seen that comes close to Emacs in terms of hackability.