Firefox was not faster than IE. We lost on pageload, cold and warm start, new window, pretty much everything. Firefox was better because it had tabbed browsing

Firefox was not faster than IE. We lost on pageload, cold and warm start, new window, pretty much everything. Firefox was better because it had tabbed browsing, integrated search, pop-up blocking, and extensions, but I was responsible for monitoring our perf back then and I can say for certain that we were not faster.