Edit 2, since I see this thread still has activity: I should point out that by "better" I don't mean that Firefox was necessarily faster but - it was equally

Edit 2, since I see this thread still has activity: I should point out that by "better" I don't mean that Firefox was necessarily faster but - it was equally fast (for my usage), - handled 400-600 tabs effortlessly even back then - had a number of great extensions and themes that significantly improved ones life (subscribe to pages that didn't offer any feeds? I had an extension that polled pages at configurable intervals and ran a smart diff checker on it that gave me a notice if some change had crossed a configurable threshold. Need access to docs while offline or just tired of spending your data quota or waiting for the train ro exit the tunnel? There was an extension that let me download pages recursively, configurable with domain, path and how many steps. It would deduplicate the downloaded pages and rewrite all links from absolute to relative and it "just worked" for everything I needed it for.) By comparison, extensions in old Firefox was Hitachi or Milwaukee and new extensions are somewhere between Fisher Price and Black and Decker. Yes, you could absolutely hurt yourself on the old ones, they were tools, not toys.)