[bravoyankee]

Firefox is horribly slow, and I don't even mean in comparison to Chrome. It's slow in its own right.

The constant updates? I'm getting used to it (although I can't really tell a difference one version to the next). It's the slowness and the crashing that gets to me.

Chrome has me spoiled I guess.

[darklajid]

I .. believe you, I guess. You obviously tried the current versions and they weren't for you. Still, I'm baffled.

I removed Chrome from my Android devices (what for?) and only have it on my desktop machines for tests. I start it once every fortnight.

Firefox, with its sync feature, keeps my browsing experience in order. I've to admit that I'm using the Beta 'channel' on both Windows and Android. The readability mode is amazing. My add-ons are really helpful.

Oh - and I didn't even mention that it's the fastest browser on an Android device for all I can tell (and so fast on my desktop that I couldn't give the crown to either IE, Chrome or FF - they all are plenty fast and good enough).

While I might sound a bit like a fan here (and I admit that I do like that browser quite a bit), I wonder what provoked your 'na na na na na!' Nelson style answer. The speed issue seems to be .. debatable / bad luck. Frequent updates are bad, but Chrome is good? Uhm.. Hard to take that serious.

Let's relax. I think that there's no need to argue about the value FF brought to the web. You might prefer 'newer' contestants and that's really fine! But bashing open-source projects that are alive, kicking and innovating, with some not-quite-that-creative broad 'ugh, slooow' criticism isn't .. nice or useful. In my world, at least.

[bravoyankee]

I'm lamenting the poor performance of the browser. I have nothing but massive respect for the developers.

But I marvel at the difference and see that even with all these updates, the gap between Chrome and Firefox gets wider and wider.

[LocalPCGuy]

This sounds like confirmation bias to me, rather than real world use of both browsers. I use Firefox as my primary at home, and Chrome at work (web developer) and I find very little difference in performance in real world use between browsers.

As for frequent updates, Firefox is a little more noticeable because you see it checking your extensions, but they don't update any more frequently than Chrome. If anything, they still update less frequently.

[shardling]

That's not a universal perception. Perhaps there is something borked with your firefox install.

[bravoyankee]

Or maybe it's not Firefox at all, but rather my Chrome install went better than normal and has resulted in abnormally good performance.