This kind of reflexive cynicism is annoying and pointless. Especially because we can just as easily flip it around and accuse Microsoft of cherry picking and op

This kind of reflexive cynicism is annoying and pointless. Especially because we can just as easily flip it around and accuse Microsoft of cherry picking and optimizing for specific benchmarks. Neither of these accusations are in any way constructive. I'd be much more interested in real world examples where one browser or another is noticeably slow.