I was just talking this week to one of the guys on the original chrome team. He told me in the beginning they were obsessed with speed -- there was a benchmark in place for time to load from cold boot that wasn&#x27;t allowed to go up (80ms). So if you wanted to do a new feature you had to jump through hoops to make sure it didn&#x27;t slow anything down.<p>Eventually chrome became mainstream, Google started advertising it on their homepage, and features started becoming a priority over speed. At some point the benchmark test case for load time broke and no one fixed it, and things started to slide.<p>I&#x27;m hoping servo provides the necessary investment and juice to restore Firefox to a good browser again (after many, many years).