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I used to hop between browsers often, and for a few years Firefox felt significantly slower. Does that really matter that much? I don't think so.

I often think that Firefox never really got bad, the difference between FF and Chrome was never massive. It's a bit unfair that FF lost so much market share for that small difference.

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Because, at the end of the day, the internet is one big social network, there are huge positive feedback loops that will drive minor differences into massive market share differences.

If one browser is 2% faster than the other, and the cost to choose one or the other is near zero, then expect huge switching.

... And that's before we factor in the far more dominant network effects, like "What comes pre-installed" and "which integrates with my accounts and syncs my aggregated data and preferences history onto a new machine transparently."

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