> Maybe Firefox is slow on Linux but on Windows I don't notice a difference between it and Chrome. I really think this is a big part of the discrepancy in opin

> Maybe Firefox is slow on Linux but on Windows I don't notice a difference between it and Chrome. I really think this is a big part of the discrepancy in opinions of performance here. In my own experience, Firefox on Linux just has sluggish responsiveness. It doesn't happen everywhere, and sometimes the effect feels cumulative (depending on how long the process has been running). I've also found the occasional website (usually forums) where the text input box is painfully sluggish in Firefox (for no good reason), while its just fine and dandy in Chrome. Now I've also run Firefox on Windows, where it seems quite snappy and I don't really have any performance complaints. (Of course there's also the part where "hip web designers" are now treating Chrome like the modern MSIE6, which probably affects "internal" sites more than public-facing ones. But that's a topic for rants elsewhere in this thread.)