ReviewScale’s form authoring tool is javascript intensive. We were delightfully suprised that the load time of our authoring tool on Google chrome was visibly much faster than Firefox. We didn’t have to run any metrics to find this out. This was definitely visibly faster!. A little digging around today and we found this in an WIRED article :

CHROME: HERE’S WHAT SHINES
Google wanted a browser optimized for cloud computing, with a design emphasis on simplicity and speed. Key features:
  • Speed
    Blazing fast JavaScript engine opens the door to more advanced Web applications.
  • Navigation
    The “omnibox” combines the search and address boxes, and pop-up thumbnails show your most-visited destinations.
  • Availability
    The open source software was launched in over 40 languages, but Windows only; Mac and Linux versions are in the works.
  • Reliability
    Tabs run in isolation, so if one crashes, no others are affected. Also, you can drag tabs to create new windows.
  • Privacy
    Browsing history is now searchable and editable; incognito mode offers private surfing.
I admire Google for their simplicity and delivery of a great product. Kudos to the main development team - Mark Larson, Brian Rakowski, Darin Fisher, and Ben Goodger, the product management team Sundar Pichai, Linus Upson, Lars Bak’s freaking fast javascript engine and ofcourse the rest of the team and help from Mozilla for making this a great product.