Perceived Performance News Today

Techniques Magazine

Rather than looking into Googles faster release cadence for Chrome, which forced Mozilla to accelerate its Firefox release schedule in 2011, the larger number of features in Chrome releases, organizational turmoil and missteps, talent departures and layoffs, Googles ability to promote Chrome on its search page, or corporate resource disparity, Mozillas user-experience researchers decided to test various hypotheses about how people respond to "priming." Priming, the paper explains, is a psycholo...