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The author says that he switched to Chrome and never looked back because when it came out, it booted up in under a second. > Firefox developers famously attemp

The author says that he switched to Chrome and never looked back because when it came out, it booted up in under a second. > Firefox developers famously attempted to fix the five second startup time in 2010 via bug #627591[6]. They fixed many issues but not enough to warrant a second try. It would be a great point if Chrome still started up in under one second. In one data point, there isn't much difference. Plus I typically (re)launch the browser less than once per day. The time difference on start up isn't the deciding issue for me.

TwoBit 6y ago
I've never understood the launch value. You start an app once a day - or in my case once a week - and run it for hours thereafter. He should have talked about Chrome's speed, which was significantly faster ten years ago, though not enough now for me to care.
- vosper 6y ago
  You’re right - one of the great unheralded achievements of modern computing is that most people can run all the applications they need (of which there are more, all of them more powerful than ever before), all at the same time, on a middle of the road laptop, and never have to think about it. You launch them once, when your computer starts, and that’s it. Office, Excel, Figma, 5 other web-apps, Slack, 30+ websites, Spotify - no problem.
- annilt 6y ago
  He uses Chrome as an example. You can think of a website instead of it, its ‘start up’ time always matters and almost all websites are slower than 10 years ago
- meheleventyone 6y ago
  Depends on the usecase but we find Chrome to be significantly faster than Firefox in JS performance.
bryanrasmussen 6y ago
>The author says that he switched to Chrome and never looked back because when it came out, it booted up in under a second. perhaps this can be taken as a claim to being a typical consumer, as they are often described as not especially rational. (the never looking back part)

TwoBit 6y ago

I've never understood the launch value. You start an app once a day - or in my case once a week - and run it for hours thereafter. He should have talked about Chrome's speed, which was significantly faster ten years ago, though not enough now for me to care.

vosper 6y ago
You’re right - one of the great unheralded achievements of modern computing is that most people can run all the applications they need (of which there are more, all of them more powerful than ever before), all at the same time, on a middle of the road laptop, and never have to think about it. You launch them once, when your computer starts, and that’s it. Office, Excel, Figma, 5 other web-apps, Slack, 30+ websites, Spotify - no problem.
annilt 6y ago
He uses Chrome as an example. You can think of a website instead of it, its ‘start up’ time always matters and almost all websites are slower than 10 years ago
meheleventyone 6y ago
Depends on the usecase but we find Chrome to be significantly faster than Firefox in JS performance.

bryanrasmussen 6y ago

>The author says that he switched to Chrome and never looked back because when it came out, it booted up in under a second. perhaps this can be taken as a claim to being a typical consumer, as they are often described as not especially rational. (the never looking back part)