while i applaud firefox for pushing IE off the stranglehold it had on sites (see mjb's comment), i cannot forget the stagnation it endured for a while with its

while i applaud firefox for pushing IE off the stranglehold it had on sites (see mjb's comment), i cannot forget the stagnation it endured for a while with its crummy memory performance for long running users. it took a couple of years for someone to acknowledge that yeah, that's a real issue and worth fixing (IIRC it was heap fragmentation, beautifully visualized in a blog post where the author basically said "holy smokes! people were right!"). i turned to safari briefly and now to chrome and haven't looked back. firefox's position allowed it to get sluggish in features and performance. a lack of true competition in alternative browsers for that brief period of time (you either used IE and were afraid to move, were prevented from it in a corporate setting, or you used firefox and wouldn't go back) showed that such stagnation can happen to anyone. bloat, performance drops, etc ... thanks for opening up the web, but that stretch of time has forever burned me on mozilla products.