Additionally, Hill says that Chrome places less of a visual emphasis on the webpage loading icon, whereas Firefox's is in plain sight – not to mention that Chrome's icon animation rotates faster. Chrome also hides website titles until a page is mostly loaded, whereas Firefox shows the title more quickly making it seem like users have to wait longer. A Mozilla intern has figured out a way to make Firefox open faster – or at least In a blog post, interface designer John Wayne Hill explained how Chrome, although only slightly faster than Firefox at starting, feels much quicker. After analyzing videos of the startup process for both applications, Hill found a fundamental difference in the way each launches that makes Chrome feel snappier.
Apparently, when Firefox is opened it draws the window, then the browser interface, and finally the homepage. Chrome on the other hand, draws the window and browser interface simultaneously, and then it loads the website. In Hill's words, "Firefox feels very sequential in its loading, while Chrome seems to do everything at once. All of these things apparently add up and give the illusion that Chrome is significantly faster, and Hill says Firefox can be tweaked similarly. Head over to the full blog post for more information, including a few data graphs illustrating the speed differences between Firefox and Chrome.
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