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When Firefox was slow to start, it was bashed about it a lot. Now they have put a lot of effort into that, making it one of the fastest browser to start. And y

by Spittie 13y ago

When Firefox was slow to start, it was bashed about it a lot. Now they have put a lot of effort into that, making it one of the fastest browser to start. And yet it's bashed because they put their effort into "something" that doesn't matter to many people.

alayne 13y ago
I don't understand these kinds of arguments. It's not the same people who are complaining in both instances.
- jasonlotito 13y ago
  Maybe not the same people, but the same type of person. In the business world, they are the guy that will adopt your product if you add this one feature. And when you add it, it's perfect! Well, except it's missing this one feature, and if you add that... On the web, it's fan boys. Product X is better than Product Y because of this! Oh, Product Y is now better than Product X in that area? Well... Product X has this! And who cares that Product Y has that other features "no one ever needs that." Or when reading reviews. They'll tell you how great the product is, how much they use it, but mark it failing marks because they also want it to have a new feature. Or this book is excellent, but I had to wait more time to get it in e-book format, so I'm going to mark it as a 1-star review before the actual book is released. One could argue these people all make valid points. You can say they balance out the people that never complain or are always happy. But over time, I've learned to take what these type of people say with a grain of salt. They'll always poke holes. They'll always find reasons. They'll never be happy. Obviously, this is all my own experience. Make of it what you will.
SeanDav 13y ago
Agree with you. Not really surprising that the Chrome crowd are finding something else to fixate on now, until that gets better, then it will be something else....etc...etc Honestly the main reason I used FF over Chrome historically was the huge and active addon selection. Chrome has caught up a lot now but I am trying to wean myself from all Google products so not ever going to use Chrome by default, simply because it is a Google product and not because it may or may not be "better" than FF.
- aclevernickname 13y ago
  > Not really surprising that the Chrome crowd are finding something else to fixate on now, Heck with the Chrome fans, lookit all the IE10 zealots in here!
mehwoot 13y ago
I switched from Firefox to chrome because firefox took ungodly amounts of time to startup. But I'm happy with Chrome so I don't go checking every month to see if firefox have fixed it yet. Maybe I'll try it again.
- omaranto 13y ago
  That has definitely changed: not only does Firefox start up much faster than before, but Chrome starts up much slower than it did before. (Of course, I just mean on my machines, have no idea if it would be true on your system.) If start up time matters to you, you probably want to switch back to Firefox.
  - mehwoot 13y ago
    Weird. I just tried it then from a cold restart. Chrome is instant on my computer, firefox is near instant. Maybe because I have an SSD now I don't notice it.

by Spittie 13y ago

alayne 13y ago

I don't understand these kinds of arguments. It's not the same people who are complaining in both instances.

jasonlotito 13y ago
Maybe not the same people, but the same type of person. In the business world, they are the guy that will adopt your product if you add this one feature. And when you add it, it's perfect! Well, except it's missing this one feature, and if you add that... On the web, it's fan boys. Product X is better than Product Y because of this! Oh, Product Y is now better than Product X in that area? Well... Product X has this! And who cares that Product Y has that other features "no one ever needs that." Or when reading reviews. They'll tell you how great the product is, how much they use it, but mark it failing marks because they also want it to have a new feature. Or this book is excellent, but I had to wait more time to get it in e-book format, so I'm going to mark it as a 1-star review before the actual book is released. One could argue these people all make valid points. You can say they balance out the people that never complain or are always happy. But over time, I've learned to take what these type of people say with a grain of salt. They'll always poke holes. They'll always find reasons. They'll never be happy. Obviously, this is all my own experience. Make of it what you will.

SeanDav 13y ago

Agree with you. Not really surprising that the Chrome crowd are finding something else to fixate on now, until that gets better, then it will be something else....etc...etc Honestly the main reason I used FF over Chrome historically was the huge and active addon selection. Chrome has caught up a lot now but I am trying to wean myself from all Google products so not ever going to use Chrome by default, simply because it is a Google product and not because it may or may not be "better" than FF.

aclevernickname 13y ago
> Not really surprising that the Chrome crowd are finding something else to fixate on now, Heck with the Chrome fans, lookit all the IE10 zealots in here!

mehwoot 13y ago

I switched from Firefox to chrome because firefox took ungodly amounts of time to startup. But I'm happy with Chrome so I don't go checking every month to see if firefox have fixed it yet. Maybe I'll try it again.

omaranto 13y ago
That has definitely changed: not only does Firefox start up much faster than before, but Chrome starts up much slower than it did before. (Of course, I just mean on my machines, have no idea if it would be true on your system.) If start up time matters to you, you probably want to switch back to Firefox.
- mehwoot 13y ago
  Weird. I just tried it then from a cold restart. Chrome is instant on my computer, firefox is near instant. Maybe because I have an SSD now I don't notice it.