Firefox is now comparable to Chrome in actual usage (some sites faster some sites slower) but generally starts up faster, uses less RAM if you're a tab-a-holic,

Firefox is now comparable to Chrome in actual usage (some sites faster some sites slower) but generally starts up faster, uses less RAM if you're a tab-a-holic, and 'feels' faster in usage. This makes Firefox's other benefits (fully open source, not tied to an advertising company, more customizable, actual competition in the browser space so we don't wind up with an IE-style monoculture again with webkit/blink, etc) more attractive as they do not incur the penalty of using a slower browser to get them.