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I had to do some testing and installed latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, IE and Opera. To my surprise, Firefox seems to have improved a lot in the last few ve
by babuskov 14y ago
I had to do some testing and installed latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, IE and Opera. To my surprise, Firefox seems to have improved a lot in the last few versions. It feels much snappier and more responsive than Chrome, which was not the case for a long time. Looking at other stuff, like download page experience, anti-aliased fonts on pages by default and overall look and feel, one can see that Mozilla has put a lot of effort into fixing the problems and trying to get back to #1 spot in terms of being the most advanced browser.
Competition from Chrome has awaken them from sleep and finally we are starting to see a very fast, slick browser. Given all the plugin ecosystem, Firefox could be back on top. The only problem is that they might be a little bit too late with these improvements, and it would be hard to win back the users that switched to Chrome. Most of my friends who switched won't even be bothered to try new Firefox. They just discard it, the same way majority of ex-IE users discards newer versions of IE without even trying once.
- TwoBit 14y agoI don't think Firefox was ever asleep. They just had different priorities during the time when Chrome was advancing primarily in performance.
- nnethercote 14y agoI'm a Mozilla employeed, and I think it's fair to say that Chrome's presence caused us to increase the focus on Firefox performance. E.g. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Snappy https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Snappy.