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Have been using Firefox since beta, hardware hasn't always been exactly latest and greatest and I really don't get this whole Firefox is bloated meme.



Try Chrome for a month and you'll get it. I'm switching back to Firefox, but believe me, the argument holds weight.


Use Chrome and/or Chromium all time and find the speed is almost the same.

Chrome advantages for me: - install pages as apps (Mozilla prism isn't supported anymore)

Chrome disadvantages for me: -Missing all the most useful plugins


I find the speed difference between Chrome and Firefox to be minimal at the beginning of the day.

But by 5 o' clock when I've got three windows with twenty tabs of docs / bugs / reproduction / etc. Chrome bears the weight much more gracefully.


If Firefox wasn't bloated, then nearly all of the new value-added features since version 3 or so should have been added as included (and disable-able) plugins: spell check, Hello, the new tab implementation, etc etc




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