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I don't really understand why more people don't use Firefox. I've been using it almost exclusively for probably a decade without any compatibility issues, aside from the very few sites that specifically request IE or Edge (which I usually just bypass by changing User Agent anyway).
I have been daily driving firefox for a long time too. The other day at work a very heavy site that is a full blown application wouldn't work properly so I had to use chrome for it. I ended up using it for a while during the day and I must admit everything was so much snappier than I was used to. I would never use Chrome but I'm now thinking about testing ungoogled chromium. I just find it hard to let go of my user styles.
I've been on Android since 1.5 and the "snappy" claims remind me a lot of the claims every new version there too. They're likely still going, though I haven't been active on XDA for a long time to know.
Is it actually objectively faster? Or is it a perception thing based on the way animations and screen changes are handled?
Blink and V8 are demonstrably ages ahead of Gecko and SpiderMonkey. It's not even close. I just didn't think it would be this noticable during day-to-day use.