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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by wpietri on Monday November 13, 2017 @01:08PM (#15688504)
Performance is a Red Queen problem. [1] People keep expecting more from computers. On the web, pages keep getting bigger and more complicated. Firefox's competition isn't going to stop trying to improve performance, and people's baseline for "fast" will mainly be other things they use. If Mozilla isn't always trying to be faster, they're going to be getting slower.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by cookiecaper on Monday November 13, 2017 @05:33PM (#15690920)
Jevon's Paradox [0] is probably more appropriate.

As resources become more plentiful (available performance-units, whether delivered through faster software or faster hardware), demand counter-intuitively increase, in part because the cheaper per-unit price makes people feel they can use the resource more freely.

This phenomenon describes why no matter how fast our computers get, it's unlikely that they will ever be "fast enough".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by wpietri on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @12:50AM (#15692978)
Both are definitely relevant, but since you insist on ranking them, the Red Queen phenomenon is more relevant to his question, which is about how Firefox is portraying themselves in the marketplace, which is a competitive environment.
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