[hn_decay]

I am in complete agreement. And quite honestly it grows tiring actually refuting the various anti-Firefox rants with actual fact -- it is a bit of a hobbyhorse of some people while they cheer on whatever team they're waving the flag of.

It honestly must be emotionally exhausting to work for Mozilla projects. For all of the incredible work they have done (Firefox is the reason Apple still exists...I'll argue that point if anyone would like), there are so many anti-Firefox fanboys who appear in every single Mozilla discussion to express their ridiculous anecdotes or to make uninformed, naive performance observations.

[burgerbrain]

I wonder what your theory is on how these "anti-Firefox fanbois" are created?

I used to be a "Pro-Firefox fanboi", had the apparel and everything. Now I no longer use it and on occasion like to publicly comment about my new dislike of it.

Since the facts are apparently not on my side, what is going on here?

[hn_decay]

Firefox was once the "I'm ahead of you" browser of choice for people who need to be propped up by their choices (of software or hardware). Eventually it got popular enough that some subsection of those people had to move on, generally to Chrome. Eventually the same nonsense will happen with Chrome (the loudmouths deriding it publicly for being yesterday's news).

So, essentially, browser hipsters.

[burgerbrain]

Cool theory, except my bicycle has a respectable number of gears and I think Lady Gaga is pretty good.

Face it, people bitch about Firefox because they legitimately had bad user eperiances. Your attitude doesn't suprize me though, it seems to be one held by Mozilla devs too.

[pcwalton]

I am a Mozilla dev. I certainly don't hold the attitude that there's something wrong with you if you don't like Firefox. Rather, I'm interested to hear about your bad user experience so that we can improve.

[burgerbrain]

I don't have anything to say that hasn't been said thousands of times already. There should be no mystery to what is bugging so many people.