I left Firefox before few months and now use Chrome... but time to time (when opened 10+ tabs) it simply blocks.
By the way, WTF is Mozzila Gecko 11 and is it possible that IE10 is faster that Chrome in Windows?
I must say... When I had my PC freshly installed, Win 8, no updates, no AV, no nothing... IE10 (IE11?) was SO fast, it was TOO fast... But that only lasted one round of updates and an AV.
In practice, loading pages in IE (especially multiple tabs) is a horror and not a serious browser at all. But totally stripped, yeah it could be fast.
Chrome has lots of problems when loading pages (takes a while). AV is possible culprit (Avast!!!
). Also build-in checks on malware etc take a while. And check your DNS speed...
I'm using Chrome for basic browsing and all extensions. Opera for Flash video, new Opera awaiting possibility to sync old Opera account, Waterfox for my TWC forum activities, Pale Moon for my Trading needs , IE if I need to login to yet another account (or to double-test if site really isn't working).
Hope it helps