[VanDeKoik]

As if FF or Chrome are some sort of prize?

Both are bloated, and will easily lead you to having to shut them down before they consume almost a gig of RAM and way too much CPU. Add the Flash plug-in too either, and they are worse.

[oh8eleven]

As if FF or Chrome are some sort of prize? Both are bloated ...
I have 3 PCs, from 3 months to 10 years old, and an 8 year old laptop. I'm running Vista, Win7, Win 8.1 and Win 10.
I've had ZERO problems with FF and Chrome in all the years I've used them.

[lbryce]

Yes, all true. I never extolled the virtues of other browsers. With all their faults and there are many they are not the laggard browser IE always was.

[angryoldfatman]

I don’t know about FF (though I’ve heard it’s suffered from bloat in the past few years), but Chrome is relatively lightweight. UNLESS...

Unless, you install a bunch of customizations and plugins. Then it’s got to go out to the cloud to get all of your junk before it starts up properly.

I don’t bother with any of that, and Chrome runs like greased lightning on my computers. HOWEVER, I still mainly run IE because of one feature: the drop down list on the address bar that shows recently visited websites.

I never could go full on Chrome because of that one feature. The rest of my family, including my little-old-lady-user wife, swears by it though and have pretty much abandoned IE.