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Didn't they promise getting faster for every release? Still, Firefox loses out for years now to Chrome and IE9 in most bechmarks, and users are abandoning it like rats a sinking ship. Usage will soon slip below of that of Chrome's, and less than 1/3rd of IE's.

Firefox still kills Chrome and Internet Exploiter - no matter what the speed.

oldschoolh4ck3r, on 15 May 2012 - 11:52 AM, said:

That's not been my experience but I welcome your insight.

oldschoolh4ck3r, on 15 May 2012 - 11:52 AM, said:

You are pretty much correct sir!

I'm looking forward to it, sort of... I used to use Chrome as my primary browser, but there were too many times when a website just didn't seem to work as it seemed like it should -- so I would try the same website on FF, which almost always worked correctly, albeit a bit slower than Chrome. These weird responses happened infrequently enough that I don't remember where they happened, or what I was doing, but often enough that it was just becoming a bit of a PITA, enough to get me to switch to FF as my primary browser. I hope FF doesn't go through the same faster but less reliable responses that Chrome has seemed to undergo for me.

FF22, on 14 May 2012 - 09:49 PM, said:

1) Out of FF, IE9, and Chrome, IE9 has the lowest HTML5 compliance.
2) IE9 also had the lowest benchmark scores in almost every category, if not every category.
3) What the hell is with IE9's download manager anyway?
4) In case you haven't noticed, FF's market share has been steadily growing, while users have been dropping IE9 at an even faster rate.
5) Chrome's privacy. 'Nuff said about Chrome.

Being on the Firefox Beta Channel can be a real exercise in Futility. You keep wondering what feature you are using will be compromised in the next release. I had 2 vertical tool bars on the left side of the screen, and with FF 13, one of them requires you to click. Being on the Firefox Beta Channel can be a real exercise in Futility. You keep wondering what feature you are using will be compromised in the next release. I had 2 vertical tool bars on the on the left side of screen to activate certain ones. In FF 12, things were fine, but in FF 13, the problem surfaced. Fortunately with an extra add on installed, you can recover the Google Toolbar which a lot of FF users use. In IE9, the Google Toolbar works just fine. Firefox has a great browser program, but the Beta Channel can be frustrating.

I use all three popular browsers, i.e. IE, FF, and Chrome simultaneously. They all have some USPs so I try to get the best out of each of them. Noticed minor speed difference between FF and Chrome since FF11. FF13 could only narrow the gap further, I hope.

We've been using FF 13 BETA since it came out and even with BETA3, FF13 loads pages significantly more slowly than FF 12 -- on all of our computers. We had to turn off the SPDY protocol due to delay when you switched to another tab. The slightly faster load of FF wasn't worth the delay when you switched tabs. I've long been a FF fan, but so far version 13 is laying a big egg in real world use for us.

Firefox still offers the best browser experience taking everything into account. Speed differences are minimal

It's tempting to leave Chrome for Firefox now... However, boot up times and addons have kept me on Google's awesome browser.