I don't get Firefox fans

Firefox fans are just like Mac fans (I use both Firefox and a Mac), they go out of their way to spread the word of Firefox or Macs, and anyone who says they're using an alternative, they bash, it annoys me, sure I'dd love to see all my friends use Firefox and Macs, but it'll never happen, so I don't bitch and whine to them about it.

I've used Gecko based browsers MUCH LONGER than the average Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape 7/8x user, I used some of the original Milestone builds back in 2000, I don't want the word of Mozilla bytched to me, I already know how good Mozilla/Firefox are, if I say my Firefox isn't working, I don't want to hear how it's all my fault and that it should work.. yadda yadda yadda. Firefox and Mac followers are like their own religious groups, they're willing to do whatever they can to spread the word.

I use Safari as my default browser, mainly because Firefox still needs alot of tinkering until I'll think about using it as my default browser, the UI speed is very slow, I can "feel" the bloat.. weird huh? Literally half the time I try to start up Firefox, it doesn't start up! Firefox is heck alot better now days than it was a year or 2 ago, the default theme actually LOOKS Mac-like now, Qute not only looked too Windows-like, but it also didn't blend with the UI theme colours, so if you had a dark theme in use, it would have a dull grey background no matter what.. this applies to a large majority of Firefox themes though.. most of themes purely suck, the Pinstripe theme and the two Mozilla suite-like themes are the only themes that are any good. I use firefox once in a while, but not as my default browser, I just don't want to have 8 tabs open and having the busy cursor pop in and never quit. The extensions on the other hand are pretty decent, many kudos to the guys who created the bugmenot extension, there were so many decent extensions over the ages, but most of them died off over time, there was an MSN Messenger extension that worked similar to how the webmessenger does now, I wonder why someone can't make an AIM extension? someone could port the aim protocol from Netscape 7x and clean up the code so it will work in firefox, and voila, but the AIM program within Netscape 7/8 is just terrible, on Mac it will never compare to iChat, and on Windows it's somehow not as great as the default AIM client.

I've seen many changes in the Mozilla field over the last 5 years, the original versions started up fast but were slow, had a very grey ui (somehow the Netscape 8 ui is going back to the original Netscape 6 days), then as time went on it started to allow themes to be installed, at first there were only 2-3 themes around, the pinball was the most popular theme for a while, then around 2001-2002 tabbed browsing came around in Mozilla.. it was a very huge innovation, the UI of mozilla changed a few times to the current theme.. it used to have more colour than it does now, pop-up blocking started up.. it wasn't that great at first, but got alot better over time and it was a big innovation, new icons came in the fall of '02 (or was it '03?), more themes came out and about, and with every .1 release came incompatibilities. Firefox (Phoenix then Firebird) was introduced in Oct '02 (or was that '03?), I still remember the very day it was released, at first I didn't really like it since I preferred the all-in-one style.. but heck, it was very very fast and simple, and it used the Orbit theme, and for a few .x releases didn't even have a theme manager and for a few .x releases still had the mozilla icon, David Hyatt said specifically that this browser would never be released to Mac, since back then nobody thought this was going to be a "everyone's" browser (since there already was Camino.. which was called Chimera back then), then everything was changed when Firefox added an extensions manager, it changed the way people browsed, and then Safari 1.0 Beta was released and Firefox caught on with the search bar beside the address bar idea, and over time themes changed and it's at where it is now, and now it has other features such as RSS feeds, import wizard and a bunch of other stuff, Firefox has came a long way but I just feel as if as time went on, Firefox just kept getting slower and slower, Firefox used to launch faster in the original versions when it was basically 80% of the whole mozilla suite with functions disabled, than it does in 1.x.