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Firefox is a pretty solid example. Started slim as hell, gradually pulled plugins in until it was more bloated than IE and everyone moved to Chrome. They realized the problem and have started pulling back (although you could argue the opposite with the new integrations), but it still stands as an example.


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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