I think so... Could be anything from hidden JS optimizations, SPDY, server-throttling. Last time I looked, my anecdotal and probably biased investigation into i

I think so... Could be anything from hidden JS optimizations, SPDY, server-throttling. Last time I looked, my anecdotal and probably biased investigation into it appeared to indicate that the actual requests were slower on Firefox. Nevermind the question of why Gmail needs to make 230+ requests to the server to start up.