LeoMcA

Firefox is getting faster and faster with every release, so you might want to check back every so often to see if you still find it slow...

But, if you find Chrome faster, use Chrome! Mozilla is a not-for-profit which exists for the good of the web, and part of the web remaining healthy is there being multiple web browsers out there. As we saw when IE completely dominated, the web was a boring mundane place, but now where IE, Chrome and Firefox have a much more even split of the browser market, the web is a much better place! (Wouldn't you agree?)

So, where was I going on this point? Ah, yes - if you prefer Chrome then use Chrome! If Opera has features you like, use Opera. Heck, if IE floats your boat... then use it! The competitiveness in the browser market is what pushes development on the web, and is exactly what Mozilla likes and wants!

As for the local bookmarks manager, I have no idea :P

While Mozilla has certain financial arrangements with Google, in no way whatsoever does that mean Google has any control over the direction of the Mozilla Project.

You might not know that Mozilla is a registered not-for-profit organisation [1] within the US, so there's no need to worry, we'll always have Firefox :)

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

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A solution which works for a number of users is navigating to 'about:support' (without the quotes) and pressing the 'Reset Firefox' button in the top right hand corner.

Alternatively take a look at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-slow-how-make-it-faster from our awesome army of support contributors!

Just a slight correction, don't you mean trademarked?

Licences like the GPL rely on copyright to ensure that all code based on the code under the GPL is also GPL. So I don't think Debian had any issue with the copyright.

However, for some insane reason, Debian took an issue with Firefox being trademarked... although this is good for the user, allowing Mozilla's legal team to quickly take down sites trying to scam them, who are using Mozilla's trademarks. Like this case: http://blog.gerv.net/2012/07/another-victory-more-germans-protected/